Comment by Balgair
4 days ago
The cost is really tough to pin down, yeah.
The way one of their employees told me it to me as like a dishwasher.
Of course the dishwasher should be more expensive. When you add up the hours in labor saved and multiply by the hourly median wage, you get something in the $50k to $100k range.
But it's essentially just a sprinkler.
Ain't no one going to to pay the cost of a new BMW for a dishwasher.
Same thing here for the laundro-bots. Their competition isn't against the time saved for a person to do it themselves. The competition is a maid that does your whole house for $70.
> Of course the dishwasher should be more expensive. When you add up the hours in labor saved and multiply by the hourly median wage, you get something in the $50k to $100k range.
Except most dishwashers aren't competing against people washing dishes by hand and making the hourly median wage, they're competing against other dishwashers
It may actually be cheaper to have the robot remotely operated all the time from some low cost country...