Investor predicts a $2-3k clothes-folding home robot within two years
lukas_m_ziegler · x · 2026-11-03
Investor Tom Varsavsky predicts that within two years you'll be able to buy a small foldable bimanual home robot that can reliably iron or fold clothes — sold by an American company at $2-3k retail, mostly manufactured in China, and launching in the UK ahead of the EU.
A concrete price-and-timeline call reflecting how quickly household embodied robots are approaching consumer price points.
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