[prawn]

Hate to say it, but I suspect people who can't afford their own laundry might be well down the list of potential customers in all this.

[drfloyd51]

But people who own the shared spaces might be high on the list.

The poorer will get robotics as a condiment. Like WiFi.

[bjackman]

Trust me, plenty of millionaires are doing their laundry in a shared Waschküche in Zürich!

Current Chinese dev bots cost like $15k. Vapourware startups are claiming they'll ship their humanoid robot product at $20k. I'd pay that in a heartbeat for robot that could actually do my laundry.

(But more impactfully surely there are loads of Californians with a utility room in their garage, or a basement that can't be accessed from inside the house)

(Also... I just realised, if there were robots that could do laundry, but couldn't navigate to my basement, I would move. I think laundry bots would genuinely be that desirable)

[prawn]

Maybe, but I was thinking the next bracket or two up. I'm sure things will trickle down though.

[bjackman]

Don't think those people need robots? I don't think the next bracket up from me does their own laundry today.

[prawn]

The companies servicing that echelon would replace staff as soon as they could. In an apartment, the building owner would plant one in the shared laundry and add an optional price for tenants to use it.