We're finally reaching the future The Jetsons promised us!
A San Francisco tech company is now letting you hire out humanoid robots to clean your house for you.
And at $30 per hour, it's an absolute steal!
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Hey, we finally have an answer to the libs' favorite question of who will clean our toilets if we deport all the illegal aliens!
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But don't worry, they aren't replacing human workers ... yet.
Here's more from ABC News:
'Yeah, yesterday we made it public that we are starting to offer a cleaning service with humanoids in SF,' said Alex Koch, CEO and co-founder of Tau Robotics.
The company is offering humanoid cleaning services for $30 an hour to selected applicants in San Francisco. Koch said the service is aimed in part at expanding access to home cleaning.
'I think many of our initial customers are people who didn't have house cleaners, or are not that frequent house cleaners, human house cleaners, so it mainly just makes the market bigger,' Koch said.
They're expanding access! They aren't putting normal house cleaners out of business. Duh.
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So, for now, you can pay human wages for robots that, by their own company's admission, do a worse job.
'I really think it is too early,' Goldberg said. 'I would be very surprised if these could do anything close to a useful job of cleaning a house. So, being able to pick up objects off the floor is even still a challenge for robots today. And being able to sweep and wipe out areas of, you know, counters and underneath things, that is very, very difficult.'
Koch acknowledged the limitations of the technology but said the robots are already capable of handling some household chores.
'But like, vacuum cleaning for example, that's working pretty well already. And yeah, like basic, wiping the kitchen counter. That's also pretty doable,' Koch said.
So it vacuums worse than a Roomba does, and can wipe off counters.
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There's also this from their Terms of Service:
A Tau cleaning is performed by a humanoid robot brought to your home by our staff and operated in real time by a trained human operator working from our facility. The robot is not autonomous. A person is controlling it.
This is going to be totally revolutionary!
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