Figure's Home Robot Math: $400-600/Month Lease With a 56% Task Completion Rate
yongqianme · x · 2026-09-18
A detailed rebuttal to Brett Adcock's Figure home-robot plans: at a hinted $400-600/month lease — roughly the cost of a recurring Bay Area house cleaner (where median single-family homes run $1.27-1.45M and household income $137k) — the robot only makes beds, folds towels, and tidies living rooms, completing the full job just 56% of the time. Household ROI is clearly negative.
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