[Balgair]

The cost is really tough to pin down, yeah.

The way one of their employees told me it to me as like a dishwasher.

Of course the dishwasher should be more expensive. When you add up the hours in labor saved and multiply by the hourly median wage, you get something in the $50k to $100k range.

But it's essentially just a sprinkler.

Ain't no one going to to pay the cost of a new BMW for a dishwasher.

Same thing here for the laundro-bots. Their competition isn't against the time saved for a person to do it themselves. The competition is a maid that does your whole house for $70.

[bigfishrunning]

> Of course the dishwasher should be more expensive. When you add up the hours in labor saved and multiply by the hourly median wage, you get something in the $50k to $100k range.

Except most dishwashers aren't competing against people washing dishes by hand and making the hourly median wage, they're competing against other dishwashers

[shellfishgene]

It may actually be cheaper to have the robot remotely operated all the time from some low cost country...