Comment by kevinventullo

6 months ago

So what you’re saying is it will take a war fought by autonomous robots on behalf of two massively wealthy adversarial nations in order to finally get us a robot that can do the dishes?

Any big picture motivation works, war is just the most timeless human activity. But, the space programs of various countries are also good examples. However, one could of course argue that the space program arose out of competing in the cold war.