A Reporter Paid $30 for a Humanoid to Clean Her Apartment. A Person in Another Room Was Driving It, the Price Is Low Because You're the Training Data, and Amazon Is Hiring for a Home Robot
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MIT Technology Review's Grace Huckins booked Tau Robotics' humanoid cleaning service in San Francisco without telling the company she was a journalist. The 4.5-foot robots are driven remotely by humans; only vacuuming and mopping run unassisted, and the cofounder says the data from each cleaning trains more autonomous models, which is why the price is low. Two days later CNBC reported Amazon has formed a home robot team, bought humanoid maker Fauna Robotics in March, and is hiring for a 'new-to-world' home robot after Astro reached only a few thousand customers.
