Laundry robots will likely scale first as shared units in dense city buildings
broodsugar · x · 2026-07-23
The post argues that laundry robots will likely take off first as a shared category in dense cities such as Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Rather than each home running a robot for 30 minutes a day, the idea is that apartment complexes or buildings will deploy around 10 units that work around the clock, making the economics and utilization much better.
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