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The form factor may not be humanoid, but if we can crack a general-purpose home robot, it would start out as a novelty plaything for the ultra rich, but at that point it would be only a matter of time before it started falling down the cost curve as we got more and more efficient & optimized with the manufacturing and the software. So yes, it almost certainly would eventually get cheaper than human labor. How long until that happens? No idea!


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