Hey, marketers. Want me to buy a robot to help around the house? Make it funny. Make it personal. Make it raise my spirits. I can wash my own dishes and mop my own floors. I can get my own mail and cookies (and if I get my cookies, I get how many I want and not how many some @#&%@%$ app says I can eat). Yes, robots can simplify my life by managing regular chores. But can it lift my spirits in real-time?

I can't tell myself jokes or chat with myself about the news. And I'm a bit snarky on a good day - really snarky on a bad day. Of all the robots I could hang with, barring the ScarJoBot my wife will never agree to, Bender would be a hoot (and earned the top spot on this list of funny robots).

Is it possible to write a comedic AI? What about a comedic program? Good comedy requires a lot of very human traits. The most important I can think of is contextual awareness. Without context, it might as well read from a book of jokes. Would a robot going about its business, dropping random jokes be funny? Maybe for awhile, but not for long.

The additional challenge will be adapting to different types of humor, based on each owner's or owners' likes. What works for me probably wouldn't work for my wife. And it would need to identify when both were present to provide yet a third style of humor.

What about you? Would a robot able to kill it be a more attractive product? Would you pay for a humor upgrade?

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T-shirt available on Amazon. Can't wait for my daughter to be old enough to wear shorts with 'ass' on them again. Sigh.