> My layman's opinion is that I would happily pay a lot of money to have a robot help me around the house: fold my clothes, do the dishes, whatever dumb menial labor. That seems like a business case to me, unless someone is going to tell me I'm the only one in the world who could want that (but I doubt it).

The day that:

- displaced workforce issue is solved

- they cost less than 20k everything included, base model

- do all the processing locally in their HW

- are smaller and lighter than a human being (but can reach higher places)

- last 10 years at least

I will definitely buy one. I don't think I'm going to see this in my lifetime though (I'm in my 40's).