alt Hacker NewsHate to say it, but I suspect people who can't afford their own laundry might be well down the list of potential customers in all this.
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drfloyd51 • yesterday at 2:16 PM
But people who own the shared spaces might be high on the list.
The poorer will get robotics as a condiment. Like WiFi.
Trust me, plenty of millionaires are doing their laundry in a shared Waschküche in Zürich!
Current Chinese dev bots cost like $15k. Vapourware startups are claiming they'll ship their humanoid robot product at $20k. I'd pay that in a heartbeat for robot that could actually do my laundry.
(But more impactfully surely there are loads of Californians with a utility room in their garage, or a basement that can't be accessed from inside the house)
(Also... I just realised, if there were robots that could do laundry, but couldn't navigate to my basement, I would move. I think laundry bots would genuinely be that desirable)