What Comes After the Roomba?

Re:What Comes After the Roomba? by GlenTheMachine on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:54PM (#18296786)

Then you're still competing with Merry Maids. Which pays minimum wage. Sure, there's a point at which the robot works fast enough for long enough with a sufficiently high MTBF that it becomes cheaper than a minimum wage worker. But it's still a very hard price point to hit.

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Re:What Comes After the Roomba? by njarboe on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @07:52PM (#18297478)

I would more for a robot cleaning service than a human one. The rich stopped using servants in America more because of social reasons that cost ones, although that idea seems to be fading away as Silicon Valley tries to get people to pay to have everything done for them. Call it "single serving servants", for everything.

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Re:What Comes After the Roomba? by neumann on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @07:08PM (#18297256)

and you can't tell it simple non-standard instructions as efficiently. 'Leave the sheets in the spare bedroom, and please use our non-allergenic cleaning solution on the bottom shelf in the laundry'

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