JIMBOT
I was first introduced to Jimbot on Apartment Therapy last summer. My household has a strong affinity for all things robot and monster and I fell in immediate and undying love with the mind (and subsequent artwork) of Jim Demski. Demski lives in Wisconsin with his wife and baby girl and spends his free time creating all sorts of awesome.
I wish Jimbot had a baby registry back when I was pregnant. I would have signed on for Robot Alphabet Letters in my daughter’s name, a “tweety” bird onesie and a tote bag to carry diapers in. Don’t worry if you’re not a baby-centric person. There is plenty of artwork to be had that doesn’t assume you’ll be decorating around cribs and rockers. I’m partial to anything Gocco and “The Gang’s All Here” sort of screams my name. Put your ears close, you’ll hear it, too.
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Miss Krista is a mother, a lover and a big believer in the power of a cupcake. she loves double entendres but is not a fan of the high-five. she blogs about the corners of her heart at my life as i see it.
My robot, would go to work for me, 4 days a week, Mon-Thur. 8-5, I will let her rest the other the other 3 days, plus I like Friday, everyone is always in a great mood on Friday, plus I need to pick up my pay check…..
Talking on the phone. I can’t stand it. I cringe when my phone rings. It doesn’t matter if it is my lovely sister, my best friend or publisher’s clearing house. I simply do not like telephones.
That’s easy, it would be a vacuuming robot. That is my most loathed chore.
Ooooohhhhh….delicious!! My robot would be in charge of feeding my 10 month old solids. Because it would be so much easier to wipe down my metal robot after the meal than having to wash my hair and change all of my clothes because i somehow have oatmeal and fruit EVERYWHERE!!!!
My robot would assume catbox cleaning duties, my most dreaded chore.
the NEVER ENDING task—– LAUNDRY!!!!!!
sort it, do it, fold it and put away!!!!!!!!
I’d have a robot do my dishes. I hate.hate.hate. doing dishes…yes, please!
Drive people to and from the airport! Seriously, how nice would it be not to have to ask someone to take you or fetch you, and to be able to send your robot ambassador when someone’s getting in to the airport at 2am?
Folding and putting away laundry. There is nothing on this earth that I hate more.
cooking. I am a horrible cook. and I hate doing it too.
i would ask my robot very nicely to do my homework :) and to pick up my fiance’s dirty socks off the carpet.
but i would always thank my robot and give it a hug: domo arigato, mr. roboto! :)
I would have a robot take over my husband’s job. It’s not a fulfilling job for him and I would want him to have the free time to continue school and pursue things that he loves. He deserves to spend his days doing something he loves.
I would get my robot to help me find my perfect soulmate, so I wouldn’t have to waste time and effort and worry over nothing on guys who may not be the One anyway :D
I would ask my robot nicely to chop vegetables and peel fruits for me, make cups of tea for me, and enjoy the sunsets with me.
I would have my robot gain weight for me so that I could eat all the yummy sweets that I so desperatly want all day long without having to worry about which parts of me are becoming ever so squishy, and jiggly.
Cleaning my house! Not just one of the vacuuming kind of robots, one that does it all!
I would definitely want a robot to do my laundry!
general cleaning, laundry & ironing. I am shocked there is another answer. Life is too short to clean. Each lovely season is changing, each person we loves still has layers to explore, our children are aging in the blink of an eye. Cleaning must be delegated to the robots – there simply is no other way.
This one is easy! Cleaning my entire house!!
Walking the dog around these cold temperatures and navigating through 30+ inches of snow!!
My personal robot would know i’m a disaster in the kitchen so it would cook wonderful meals for me every evening…and of course clean up afterwards too!
ah yes…my robot of choice is a picker-upper…any and all things left on the floor/table/chair/counter would be silently and expeditiously swept out of sight – paradise! Thanks for the superb giveaway!
my robot would take over choosing what is for dinner during the week – I would still make it but the robot would choose what the menu is and make sure that I have all of the ingredients available when I get home from work.
I would like my robot to clean out the litter box and take out the garbage. I hate doing anything that deals with bad odors, I’m very sensitive to certain smells. My family and friends say I have the nose of a bloodhound…Ha!
Oh, I HATE washing dishes! Please, Mr. Robot, wash my dishes. I will oil you, plug you in at night, wind you up, polish you all nice and shiny… whatever your little metal heart desires. Thank you! Oh, thank you, Mr. Robot!
Easy question. :) I would make my robot clean my bathrooms. I hate it. It makes my back hurt, my hands burn with cleaner/too much hot water, and I really just don’t have time with 2 little ones. Especially scrubbing the shower and then the bathtubs. Oh, my back hurts just thinking about it.
That robot would drive me to work and school, and he/she would drive me home and cook me healthy dinners every night instead of driving me to Taco Bueno, Yep, that’s what I need. And the robot would hopefully wash the dishes too!
I’d love to have a robot that would clean house for me.
Driving me to the places I need to go, even it could be better if it could fly so we’d avoid the traffic jams XD
My laundry. I would have the robot sort, wash, dry, fold or iron, and put away. As a mom with a nine-month old baby, I can never seem to get caught up with this task. My clothes end up staying in the basket all work long.
It would definitely be household cleaning, including laundry if the robot could handle it all. He’d be the best robot a girl could ask for. Making more time for me to craft or read or get outdoors.
Absolutely – dishes. And vacuuming the steps.
cleaning the floors! i hate my central vac!!!!!
I would have my robot put away the laundry. THE WORST EVER- I hate laundry.
I would ask my robot to do my graduate homework for me! I’ll do the reading, if he will do the actual work! And if that wouldn’t work, then the DISHES!!!! :)
It would have to be…answering the phone! In a house of seven capable members and an answering machine, I don’t receive any of my messages! Arghhhhhhh!
Make my coffee in the morning. Nothing else. This robot would live a luxurious life, if it could perform that simple task, which I can’t. My best friends are a pastry chef and a cook. I love to make gourmet recipes, but I can’t make coffee. I’m not sure why. I have to go to Starbucks every morning instead. It’s not the blend I use, my machine, or the brands these products are from, but when I touch one of those beans I must poison them. I don’t want to smell a bistro in my home, just not live in fear of my morning coffee.
Robot of any kind? Why a sorter please! For the many junk drawers, boxes and baskets that are strewn throughout my house full of paper, trinkets, change, lipstick, jewelry, paper clips, titles to my car, etc. I need help to sort and put back where they belong!
My robot would pick up after the dogs for me.. please robot please..
Exercising. Vicarious exercising. Man, I would work that sucker and make it lose all of this baby weight I am carrying around like a unwieldy hula-hoop.
The robot could take out the trash for me please. I use the good bags, and don’t let it get mucky or sit too long, but it is still VERY unpleasant. Life should smell better than that. Better yet, maybe the robot could come with a ‘trash vaporizing ray,’ eliminating the need to take out trash AND reducing world polution at the same time!
I request a “roll me out of bed in the morning” robot.
My Robot would sort letters, emails, bills so that I receive only the private ones, and the Robot deals with spam, bureaucracy and payments, and only gives me a concise report :-)
My robot would specialize in cleaning the bathroom. NO girl wants to clean a toilet that men use ;o) It’d be handy if it could scrub the bath tub as well. That’s always quit a bit of work.
My robot would be a secretary! Open the mail, paying the bills, checking the email.
Oh my robot would be killer at doing the dishes….however I guess if I could afford a robot to do my dishes for me, I’d probably be better off just getting a dishwasher.
My robot would attend all the endless meetings at work, so I could actually accomplish some of the things that we’re meeting about!
Cleaning the bathroom!!!!
Clutter avoidance…. creating places and spaces to put my stuff then sorting and putting away the stuff in boxes I’ve been avoiding…then following behind me to pick up what I’m done with a putting it away. The cherry on top is my loverly little “go-bot” will retrieve whichever item I need and will know exactly where it is!!
Household chores are a piece of cake. It’s the clutter that overwhelms me
I’d program my robot to do the following:
1. massage my shoulders
2. arrange and organize my house, i.e. move furniture, build things, mount shelves, etc
3. take care of my plants when I’m not in the mood to do it
4. manage my bookeeping/accounting files
5. make me smile