Smart homes certainly could provide many benefits to their users. In regard to their robot assistants, I'd say the survey is still out on how that would work exactly. I'd say some programming choices would be up to the user but certainly the user wouldn't be smart enough to create the robot in the first place which would leave many decisions in the hands of its original designers.
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