Many of these businesses are price sensitive and low margin, like restaurants, so the robots have to be somewhat cheap for the economics to make sense. Dyna runs a robotics service model — they don't sell the hardware, they rent robots out at several grand a month, which is on par with or cheaper than typical labor cost in the United States.
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Jason notes a lot of these businesses are quite price sensitive — restaurants are perhaps low-margin businesses — so for the economics to make sense at all, the robots have to be somewhat cheap. This is also why he doesn't think humanoids are ready: the humanoids you can buy are "in the orders of like tens of thousand 20,000 if not more," whereas Dyna's robots are "like couple grand each." They run a robotics service business model — "we don't like actually sell the hardware, we just rent the hardware out to different customers" — at several grand a month to rent a robot. That's "on par if not cheaper than like typical labor cost in the United States."