> The same logic for why self-driving cars can't be cloud based, applies for robots. Something cannot be in the middle of a delicate operation and then "oops!", no network, it just stops.

I don't think you understood my post. The equivalent of self-driving is the movement control I was talking about.

Self-driving cars don't have high level logic, except for route planning. Which often is offloaded to the cloud. An extra 30 milliseconds on understanding your speech is nothing.

> Imagine leasing out idle time on your desktop or even laptop for cash.

https://vast.ai/