planned $499 per month subscription

lol

taking bets on how long it will take for this to become abandonware

I'd love to have a robot to handle basic home maintenance tasks. Somehow, I'm not quite willing to bet $20k and $500/month on this thing being anything more than a gimmick. I'd also be really curious what happens to my $20k robot if I cancel the subscription and/or the company goes under. Do I just end up with a really expensive object lesson is poor spending decisions?

They're replacing underpaid immigrant workers with underpaid overseas workers remotely controlling a crummy robot, while some rich techbro asshole in the middle skims off almost all the money. I do hope they fail with this stupid idea, but your techbro will already have made off with the money for their next startup scam.

I do chores for less than that.

And I'm fuckable.

Why do they keep insisting on humanoid? Just give me the crushinator to do chores for $10,000.

Bullshit

It's amazing, they can make a 20k humanoid but it's impossible to make a 20k EV car.

I suppose for a large house, $500/mo. is what one would pay for maid service.

I don't believe one robot can effectively clean piss from the corner behind the toilet, AND do laundry, AND clean windows, AND dust, AND clean a shower head, AND clean a refrigerator, etc., etc.

Imagine a robot collecting everything out of a fridge onto a counter, removing the glass shelves, cleaning them, cleaning the inside of the fridge, and then putting everything back without breaking anything, and doing it in 30 minutes. Not happening. Even if it were done completely by remote control, I don't think it could do it.

These things are not anywhere close to a replacement for a human, but they'll keep pushing it.

Who's homes?

They have been saying this since the 1990s, Rocky had a robot maid. Useless unless you just want something that kills anything that moves, which would be pretty cool I guess.

“Our company is cooler than X because we put a ‘1’ in front of it.”