Robots are awesome. Drones can spy, track, even deliver packages! And all of these capabilities have been developed in an incredibly rapid period of time. Can you imagine what we’ll program robots to do next?
If Robocop has anything to say about it (and we hope he does), they’ll probably program robots to love. So in honor of Robocop, released nationally in theaters on February 12, we’d like to give you our predictions for the top 10 crazy jobs that robots will probably end up doing.
Top 10 Crazy Jobs that Robots Will Probably End Up Doing
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1. Raise Your Children
If drones can drop packages off at your house, why can’t they drop your kids off at school? The next step for robots will be to improve flight-safety and then, eventually, to give them training in pedagogical theory and etiquette. Hopefully they won’t use these skills too teach each other…
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2. Act as High Ranking Political Officers
Nobody likes politicians. Well, we like some politicians, but it’s usually only a brief thing. What if a robot politician was invented who simply took all of the opinions of the people, weighed them against each other using statistical analysis, then spit out decisions based on the actual will of the people? Nope, that’ll never happen.
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3. Be Your Best Friend
This might not sound disturbing to you at first, but think about it. It’s not that hard to program a robot to like playing video games and listening to Led Zeppelin. And if your new robot pal can order pizza, you will literally never leave the house again. Scary.
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4. Drive Your Car
Pretty sure this one is already in motion. It sounds really nice, right? Every trip to the drugstore is an opportunity for you to catch up on the latest episode of your favorite show! Until the car gains sentience and decides that it’s done with you.
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5. Tend Bar
Perfectly proportioned drinks. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Everything you order is always delicious and crafted quickly. Downside? No more drunkenly flirting with hot bartenders.
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6. Walk Your Dog
This one is truly inevitable. If robots can vacuum your house without breaking themselves on your wall, there’s nothing stopping us from making a robot that can walk your dog down the street.
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7. Be a Front Man for a Rock ‘N Roll Band
Have you ever noticed that there is a lack of strong, powerful front men in modern music? What ever happened to Axel Rose, Robert Plant and Gene Simmons? Well, they’re all kind of has-beens now, but there are no new young people replacing them. Hence, somebody will make robots that can do it.
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8. Play Chess Professionally
Oh, wait. I think they already have these.
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9. Do Your Job
This one is inevitable. Look at the auto workers of America. Do you think they believed that a bunch of robots would be stealing their jobs and destroying their industry? Nope. And it’s only a matter of time before we have robots doing menial tasks like sending emails and creating expense reports… You know, what you do for a living...
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10. Invent Other Robots
This might seem horrifyingly terrible… And it is. Once the robots start to build each other, there’s nothing stopping them from creating weapons of mass destruction, exiling all humans to the moon and enslaving the last few of us who remain as their robots! IRONY.
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