SF Janitor Robot Costs $30/Hour, But It's Actually VR Teleoperation
FuSheng_0306 · x · 2026-07-30
A new humanoid robot cleaning service has launched in San Francisco, priced at $30/hour, with one of the robots notably named "Elon."
Despite fluid movements, the robot is actually purely remote-controlled by humans wearing VR headsets. This setup appears to be a clever way to get paying customers to fund the collection of valuable real-world training data for robotics.
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