THIS IS WHERE HUMANOIDS START MAKING ECONOMIC SENSE.
China is building robots that can fold, sort and handle clothes.
It looks simple.
That's exactly the point.
In the U.S., laundry and dry-cleaning workers make a median $16.79/hour - roughly $35,000 a year.
Do the same repetitive task with a machine.
8 hours a day.
5 days a week.
2,000+ hours a year.
Now the question isn't whether the robot looks impressive.
It's whether the robot costs less than the labor it replaces.
Make the hardware cheaper.
Make the software better.
Deploy 10,000 machines.
That's when a simple robot demo becomes a business model.
And that's the part worth watching.