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?
I’d also bet on “security” being one of those things. I can’t wait to hear about the first time some kids from 4chan take control of one of these bots.
I know this is a little off from your reply but seriously there are so many things that fight me for me to send them money to pay for it rather than they sucking the money from me. its like no. just no.
They want you to set up autopay so that you forget about it and just keep paying them forever. Similar reason that every online store wants to save your credit card info. The less friction you have to paying for something, the more likely you are to do it.
yeah its crazy. they want to keep your credit card and then they want to have your bank account info. its like eff off. It really annoys me because the whole bill pay thing from banks could be made much better but I feel every place is desperate to not work with it.
Just buy a VR headset and become the Indian. By the time the company goes under, you can probably get an AI good enough to handle 80% of tasks and you can just patch in on critical steps for tricky stuff.
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?
Pretty much. There’s basically zero chance this will not end up on the pile of products released way before they reached commercial viability.
Move fast and break things.
And by “things” they mean “functionality”.
I’d also bet on “security” being one of those things. I can’t wait to hear about the first time some kids from 4chan take control of one of these bots.
wait. wait. wait. theres a monthly fee as well?
What, you expect to actually own something that costs you $20k? Quit obstructing their access to your bank account. Think of the shareholders!
I know this is a little off from your reply but seriously there are so many things that fight me for me to send them money to pay for it rather than they sucking the money from me. its like no. just no.
They want you to set up autopay so that you forget about it and just keep paying them forever. Similar reason that every online store wants to save your credit card info. The less friction you have to paying for something, the more likely you are to do it.
yeah its crazy. they want to keep your credit card and then they want to have your bank account info. its like eff off. It really annoys me because the whole bill pay thing from banks could be made much better but I feel every place is desperate to not work with it.
I mean they demoed this thing not that long ago and it was a disaster. So yeah, my expectations are low.
I mean, it’s 2026. I can’t imagine the robot can’t be jailbroken.
Who’s gonna hire an Indian to teleoperate it, then?
Just buy a VR headset and become the Indian. By the time the company goes under, you can probably get an AI good enough to handle 80% of tasks and you can just patch in on critical steps for tricky stuff.
If I’m teleoperating it myself, I may as well do the chores myself.
I’m also dubious of the claim that AI will get “good enough” in the few years (at best) it takes the company to fold.
To an extent, except it’s less exertion.
More realistically, that could actually be a good option for people who are physically incapable of the chore, but want to do it.