Prediction: economical household robots will be hired by the job, not owned
jessi_cata · x · 2026-10-03
The author predicts the first economical general-purpose household robots ("robomaids", defined as >5 million total users) won't be owned by homeowners but hired per job, commuting between houses to clean.
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