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I recently bought a vacuum / mop robot and have been impressed by how good it is. Not perfect, but 80% of the way there. Good enough to be actually useful. Human form factor robots, like AI, is not close to ready to be useful yet.
I have one of those lidar xiaomi robot vacuums with a mop. It would frequently jam and I would have to make sure to not leave chairs and stuff lying around to be able to make it run. But then new, creative ways of jamming would pop up every now and then. I HATED adapting my house for a stupid robot and used it less and less. When my daughter was born it was all over - forget about it, toys everywhere, I prefer having a dusty house.
All that prep work to clean off your floor for the bot is work you'd have to do anyway with a vacuum and mop. I have another Chinese bot, a MOVA, but it's similar. You have to do prep. You have to maintain the bot. It doesn't clean everything. But it does a lot more than I expected. It cuts the overall workload. Like a dishwasher does. So I consider it a win.
No, I agree, I guess my point was - I thought I wouldn't have to as much, which I guess most people think when buying a robot vacuum or any other robot. Hence the reaction of many people when they see a new robot is - we're cooked. Yes, in terms of sheer manual, automatable labour, we may be. But not for anything requiring some intelligence. The surprising thing is - turns out a lot of things can be automated and thus useful.