The humanoid robots cleaning homes for $30 an hour

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Post by geox » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 5:11 AM UTC

The humanoid robots cleaning homes for $30 an hour
nbcnews.com

Re: The humanoid robots cleaning homes for $30 an hour

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Post by evil-olive » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 5:54 AM UTC

emphasis added:

> NBC News' Tom Llamas speaks with Tau Robotics CEO and co-founder Alexander Koch about how the robots work and the challenges of making them fully A.I. powered.

sounds like it's another "oh, it's totally a robot, trust us...yes, a worker from overseas might teleoperate it some percentage of the time. how often? well, that's a trade secret, you see"

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Post by rushi053 » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 6:14 AM UTC

and what if we don't pay on time?

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Post by kanemcgrath » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 6:43 AM UTC

evil-olive wrote: post #2

emphasis added: > NBC News' Tom Llamas speaks with Tau Robotics CEO and co-founder Alexander Koch about how the robots work and the challenges of making them fully A.I. powered. sounds like it's another "oh, it's totally a robot, trust us...yes, a worker from overseas might teleoperate it some percentage of the time. how often? well, that's a trade secret, you see"

I find it unfortunate that tele-operated robotics could be a legitimate and successful strategy. But everyone is so desperate for AI hype money that I don’t think we will see it for a while.

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Post by expedited123 » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 7:30 AM UTC

More novelty and marketing than anything useful. Anyone who has done any cleaning will most likely agree.