Chris Paxton: Nobody Wants a $20,000 Home Robot That Breaks 1% of Their Dishes
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-09-18
Robotics researcher Chris Paxton pushed back on factory-style reliability thinking for home robots: even a 1% failure rate is unacceptable — nobody wants a $20,000 robot that breaks 1% of their dishes or gets stuck on laundry 1% of the time.
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