Well, if that is how you manage other hazards in the home, then yes.
I would recommend another approach though. We decided for making changes to our home to allow our toddler to be safe in our home environment without being notably constrained.
While I agree we'll see millions of bipedal robots, it won't be because they're doing our chores. People will buy them for the same reason I'd want one today: They're fun toys.
Even though today's robots are vastly more sophisticated, the progress of the last decade shows we shouldn't expect a sudden revolution in their abilities over the next ten years. As is often the case, solving those final few challenges that really make a difference always takes the longest.
That's not a robot problem, that's a toddler problem.
We don't leave our young toddlers to roam freely around the house for a reason. Our homes are full of hazards to these risk-seeking small people and a robot is just one more on the list.
If the edges of the screen are further from your eyes than the center, the content and text doesn't appear at the same size. If you wear glasses, the edges might even fall out of focus unless you physically move closer.
It's basically a failure of setting up the proper response playbook.
Instead of:
1. AI detects gun on surveillance
2. Dispatch armed police to location
It should be:
1. AI detects gun on surveillance
2. Human reviews the pictures and verifies the threat
3. Dispatch armed police to location
I think the latter version is likely what already took place in this incident, and it was actually a human that also mistook a bag of Doritos for a gun.
But that version of the story is not as interesting, I guess.
If only he had known he could simply use his laptop to train them.