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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday January 23 2017, @08:05PM
A society that has technology like replicators, transporters, shields, warp drives would seem like they should have made some significant improvements in robot technology. Like Lt. Cmdr Data
But even if not . . .
The purpose of maintenance robots is not to reduce energy use, but to free humans from unnecessary menial tasks. To focus on more important things. Like designing more energy efficient maintenance robots.
Lt. Cmdr Data himself would not be a maintenance droid because the purpose is to free conscious entities to do more enriching things.
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