San Francisco's $30/hour humanoid cleaning robots; they're remotely human-run

The humanoid robot executing a cleaning task (Image: Tau Robotics) San Francisco tech startup Tau Robotics has, in a feat, launched AI robots that provide home and office cleaning services, including vacuuming floors, clearing clutter, and taking out the trash. "Yeah, yesterday we made it public that we are starting to offer a cleaning service with humanoids in SF," Alex Koch, CEO and co-founder of Tau Robotics, told ABC News. The move puts the long-hyped promise of household robots to an early, public test, and it's already drawing skepticism from some robotics expert.How Tau Robotics' humanoid cleaning service worksTau Robotics, a San Francisco startup, has begun offering home cleaning services using humanoid robots, according to the company's CEO and co-founder, Alex Koch, who confirmed the launch. The pricing and scope are narrow for now, the company is offering the service for $30 an hour to a select group of applicants in San Francisco. On its own website, the company describes the offering similarly, pricing it at $30 per hour for each humanoid unit and noting that two robots work a job at a time, with access currently invite-only through a waitlist.Crucially, the robots are...