Huh? You know dishwashers and lawnmowers already exist right?
I was at a friend's house (I don't have a lawn) a couple of weekends back and the plates and cutlery and so on we used is just "magically" clean in the morning so long as we remember to put them in the right place, you hear cutting, and outside there's a machine wandering about cutting the lawn periodically.
We don't need a humanoid robot to wash dishes, that's a waste of resources, like when people thought we should have crews of people typing documents rather than just... not.
Nobody is buying a $20k home robot to replace a home dishwasher.
But they might to replace a commercial manual dish washing position.
Which begs the question - why don't restaurants use actual dish washers? They have a "Commercial dish washer machine", but that's actually just a final sterilizing step, and restaurant dishes are instead washed by hand.
> why don't restaurants use actual dish washers? They have a "Commercial dish washer machine", but that's actually just a final sterilizing step, and restaurant dishes are instead washed by hand.
Not the ones I've seen, dishwashers are pretty common. Are you seriously saying that the dishes are handwashed in the Restaurants you know?
A commercial dishwasher does not wash "3D debris" like a home dishwasher does, it's a reserve of boiling water and fairly caustic chemical cleaners that removes lipid films and sterilizes the surfaces, and it does this in a matter of minutes. From what I can tell basically every restaurant employs people to wash/rinse dishes prior to this final step, using a high pressure nozzle, bleach or quat rags, and a series of sinks. The people who end up employed in this role and who actually show up every day are frequently given a lot of leeway as far as eccentricities, history, and interpersonal problems (Nazi facial tattoos and a felony history? Can you start Tuesday?), because nobody else wants to do it.
