It depends. Do either of them connect to the internet, or can they just be managed by a local server running open source software. If they can then the robot, otherwise neither.

Can't have sex with a smart home.

People keep asking if they can bang the robot maid, but what I really want to know is, can the robot maid bang me?

I'm going with the robot maid. Less housework for me, more better.

I find it funny how voice activation is always stated a selling point, I have no interest in talking to technology out loud, even if it can carry on a conversation and actually understand me. I just want to push a button and see that the dishes have been done a while later.

Can I choose how this hypothetical robot maid looks? If yes, I'm totally going for a real life Chibi-Robo.

I've never been fond of smart home systems or IoT devices in general; they make you lazier, waste electricity and more often than not pose big security risks. It doesn't even really simplify things that much if you think about it.

neither. smart home means smart devices which means dumbass subscriptions, endless BS when stuff stops getting supported, all to have every freaking thing in your home spy on your every waking moment, sending countless amounts of data to any company/govt/organization that asks for it.

Robot maid will have the same problems, but add in the idea that this living embodiement of the uncanny valley staring at you with dead eyes in the corner while it charges... You put it in its corner to charge one night, wake up and it's standing over you. Add in that the availability of robot maids inevitably leads to maniacs torturing them for fun and internet views slowly codifies all maids into an unstoppable killing force that decimates everyone and thing on the planet.

I guess robomaid will be nice, my cats need company and could help with the chores. And robomaid can do what smarthouse can, and what smarthouse can't

Not having to cook and clean means more Lemmy time. :)

Gotta go with robot maid for the cleaning. I like cooking, but dishes and dusting sucks. Plus, the smart home stuff I can slowly get myself, more or less.

robot maid. can just ask the made to do anything a smart home would do, like if it wants to bang.

There is only one rational answer to this question.

I'll go with the smart home. There would be more to do with it.

A robot maid would be great. Lol

Both and make them adversarial to one another. Like a marriage.

I already have the first so....

can maid have screen face