Welcome Home

How Helper Robots Are Learning to Cook, Clean, and Care for Us

De: D Phoenix Blake

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The most helpful machine you'll ever own is coming through your front door. It will cook, clean, watch over your health, and care for your aging parents. It will be loyal, tireless, and downright adorable.

It will also be the most powerful surveillance device that has ever been inside your home — and you'll happily pay every month to keep it.

In Welcome Home, the second book in The Robots Among Us, you'll meet the helper robots arriving right now: a humanoid you can already preorder, a household assistant built to do your laundry for a monthly fee, and cute companions designed to make you bond with them on purpose. You'll learn why experts warn about "the danger of cuteness," what these machines really see and record, and why a stranger in a headset may be steering the robot in your living room.

You'll also meet the people for whom these machines are a genuine lifeline — an exhausted caregiver, a proud widower who wants to stay in his own home. Honest, surprising, and deeply human, this is the clear-eyed guide every family needs before the robot moves in.