[nearbuy]

Unitree's R1 humanoid robot is only about $6000, and it's still a nascent, smallish scale technology. They will come down.

If the future home robots are any good, it saves you from buying a dishwasher and robot vacuum. It can replace a maid/cleaning service and gardener/lawn-mowing service. For anyone paying for those services, it pays for itself.

$1000 isn't that high. Probably about a third of American households have an appliance over $2000, which is still a massive market.

[monknomo]

I doubt it'd save you from purchasing a dishwasher - those things are very efficient and not very expensive. Perhaps it'd save you from loading and unloading a dishwasher

[xnx]

Have 2 dishwashers, and you never need to load or unload (as an extra step).

[nearbuy]

I have a dishwasher and I still usually just hand wash. It takes about 10 seconds to wash a dish.

The side benefit is all your dishes are always available. With the dishwasher, up to one full dishwasher load are dirty at any time, which means you need more dishes and more cupboard space than someone without a dishwasher.

If the robot is going to clear your dishes and wash them for you right away, what's the dishwasher for? To save the robot 10 minutes?

[imtringued]

Just use the shortest two cycle program while following the two stage powder suggestion by Technology Connections. Obviously, if you are American you have to make sure the water going into the dishwasher is hot.

Honestly I don't even bother with two cycles and just use a 45 minute program in a 45cm wide dishwasher while throwing the extra powder in there anyway because it is too cheap to care about the waste vs tabs.

[imp0cat]

Mostly to save water and energy. I have a hard time believing the robot would be more efficient washing dishes by hand.