Description
Tau Robotics runs what it calls the world’s only humanoid cleaning service, and it’s live now in San Francisco, invite-only. Staff drop the robots off, usually two per visit. A trained operator then steers them in real time from Tau’s facility, through the robots’ cameras, with AI handling some tasks. They vacuum, mop, wipe counters and clean toilets.
It costs $50 per robot per hour, so a standard one-hour clean with two robots runs $100. The average San Francisco house cleaning costs about $85 an hour, according to Angi.
There’s a catch. Every visit is recorded, and Tau keeps the footage to train the AI it hopes will one day do the job without a person.
Would you let a remote-controlled robot clean your home?