The potential here is amazing. It's very early days, but this is the first Robot I've seen that makes me think home assistant robotics is technically and financially feasible. It does not need to be consumer priced from day one as there are many high value scenarios that could benefit from this robot. For example, home care in Europe costs governments millions every year. Even remotely controlled by a carer would be an application for today.
I would love to be as positive as you. Let's say minimum wage is $15 an hour, what task do you think this robot could do, and how many hours of labour will it save? I don't want to be overly negative, but to honest the way it comes across to me is they've taken a roomba, glued a stick on top of it, zip tied a hoover onto it, and invented a slow, bad roomba.
