The industry chased general-purpose home assistants for years. The product that actually sold is a box that takes a basket of clean clothes and returns folded stacks in about an hour. It is slow, it is large and it has a waiting list.
Why narrow wins
Reliability. A single task can be engineered to near-perfect performance. The company says a general robot would do many things badly; this one does one thing every day without complaint.
Key takeaways
- One task, engineered for reliability
- Roughly an hour per basket
- Waiting list runs for months
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