Gatsby makes US history with first humanoid robot home cleaning job
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A robot showed up to clean a stranger's apartment in San Francisco, and it might change how we think about housework forever.
On May 14th, a startup called Gatsby made history by sending an autonomous humanoid robot to complete the first-ever residential cleaning for a paying consumer in the US. The homeowner was randomly selected from a waitlist and booked the service through an app for a flat $150 fee.
Gatsby's model isn't about selling you a $20,000 robot. Think Uber, but for humanoid housekeepers.
"Housework is the largest unpaid job in human history, and it falls hardest on the people with the least time to give," said founder Aron Frishberg.
Rather than building its own hardware, Gatsby is constructing the software and distribution layer that makes any robot useful inside a home. If a better robot hits the market tomorrow, Gatsby simply swaps it in.
The waitlist, already massive in the Bay Area, is growing fast across the country.
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