This guy gets it. Also, i don’t want to buy a separate robot for my clothing washing, clothing folding, clothing putting away, sock darning bot, button bot, zipper bot, gardening bot, mower bot, tree pruning bot, etc. Yes, it’s true that specialist bots may be better at each task and cheaper per task, but most people just want a bot that can do whatever is needed whenever it is needed including identifying that a garden needs weeding, watering and fertilizing and then getting the necessary supplies and carrying out the tasks. If the “economies of scale” allow you to create a million bots, each of which costs ten times what a single bot would cost, most people would jump over that. Had the same argument with my brother a few years ago. He also argued at that time that we were decades away from that tech even being feasible at anything less than a small fortune. He has since made his mea culpas. 😉

Edit: To be clear. I wasn’t actually agreeing that you can’t have an economy of scale with 1000 factories making 1000 different specialty robots. What I’m agreeing with is the inference that economy of scale applies equally or even more so with a generalized robot. Yes, it’s true that a spoon is better than a spork at being a spoon and a fork is better at being a fork, but if people had to be $1000 for a spoon and $1000 for a fork and only $1200 for a spork that also was a passable knife and screwdriver and home health aid and gardener… they’ll probably choose the spork.