Robots Like Rosie From The Jetsons May Soon Be Your Caregiver By Jason Hahr

 

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As a journalist, it is your job to always be on the lookout for the next story or trend. I am no different; I am always looking for the next topic to cover on this blog; however, I never thought I would find it while chilling with my dad on a Tuesday afternoon. For those of you who don’t know him, let me quickly make an introduction. My dad is a loving, caring, ornery 63-year-old pain in my butt, but I love him with all my heart. Approximately 13 years ago, he became disabled, and we have grown closer since. Due to the nature of his disability, my dad has changed not only physically but also in other ways as well. He no longer has the attention span to watch a whole TV program or even read an entire chapter in a book. This means he enjoys doing so; it simply means that where you and I can watch a half-hour program in one sitting, it takes tremendous effort for my dad to do so. Therefore, he spends most of his time in his man-cave watching short YouTube clips. They can range from assistive technology that, in his eyes, changes everything to short stand-up comedy routines.

During a recent visit with my dad, we were watching YouTube instead of the old Jeopardy episodes we like to watch when he introduced me to the Tesla Gen 3.5 Helper Robot. At first, when the video started to play internally, I rolled my eyes, thinking to myself, "Here's one of dad's little pipe dreams that will fix everything," but boy, was I wrong. The video lasted about two or three minutes, but it got me thinking. According to the video, which I will link at the bottom of this blog, Elon Musk and Tesla are developing a relatively affordable, all-around personal robot that the general public could one day afford. What does this robot do? The answer is a lot. In the next couple of paragraphs, I will go into as much detail as I am aware of.

These robots can lift up to 44 pounds. This may not seem like a lot, but to put it in perspective, the robot could take out the trash and even lift a small child if needed. Why am I writing about these robots on a disability blog? To put it plainly, my mind is always thinking outside the box. The video mentioned that robots could potentially be a help. So, my mind took it one step further and posed this question. The Tesla Gen 3.5 could assist the elderly with tasks such as cooking meals, remembering medications, doing household chores, and even potentially driving them around. Could a version of these robots, therefore, eventually supplement or even replace caregivers for disabled individuals like me and my friends? I realize that artificial intelligence is not perfect, and putting all our eggs in the AI basket reminds me of something out of a bad science fiction movie where the robots take over the world and subjugate the humans. Still, if we do not let the potential AI robots entirely replace human caregivers, they could serve a valuable purpose.

I know some celebrities have a form of these robots already but what Elon Musk and Tesla are doing by trying to make the robots as affordable as possible (as of now they cost $10,990) shows great potential in humanity in general but perhaps even more critical for this blog they could allow disabled people to be more independent in the future. Till next time, your friendly neighborhood intrigued and hopeful super advocate, Jay

 

Resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOpCtmRpLK0

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  1. AnonymousAugust 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM

    J great article thanks for writing it. I too have been wondering what they could do to help not only the disabled community but also everybody and and it got me thinking that when the iPad first come out, I went and bought one when I didn’t even know how to turn it on and then I got to learning all the things I could do and it eventually became a a part of my workday that I could not be without. It helped me so much with all the task I had to do for work And then eventually we bought one for everybody in the company, and as you can see people all over the world now use them or the equivalent, and people are writing apps for them of course their apps for your phone too, but things that never could’ve imagined that you could’ve done before With the iPad now you can and I think it’ll be the same way with a personal robot you gotta get it to learn what you can do and to learn, and you can learn what you need and the more I watch these videos the more it tells me you know it’ll take about a day to really learn everything you need and want and then it’ll start doing things before you even have to ask again thank you for writing it. Great job

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