[p1esk]

How low? Would you consider $50k to be low enough for wide adoption?

[muzani]

I'd say closer to $5000, which is about the cost of a domestic helper for a year or so.

Then again, they don't need sleep, can be jailbroken, they only need closet space, and won't take your money and run. They can do dangerous tasks like fixing the roof too. Menial labor like walking 3 km over to the store to buy me a can of Red Bull. You can have them do pranks at night. They'd probably be valued quite a bit more than a human.

[Lionga]

$5000 will still be absolute niche. Cost needs to be close to a phone to get mass adoption. And that might very well never happen.

[pants2]

No, but for industrial and business uses yes. You'd start to see a lot more robots used for warehouses, deliveries, restocking, cleaning, preparing food, etc.

[p1esk]

Honestly I’m not really interested in industrial robots. What price would be reasonable for a humanoid robot that can do common household tasks?