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A San Francisco Startup Will Send a Humanoid Robot to Clean Your House for $30 an Hour — and Film Every Minute of It
Tau Robotics went live July 28 with an invite-only humanoid cleaning service in San Francisco at a flat $30 per hour. A trained operator at Tau's facility pilots the robot in real time while AI handles balance and motion, and the company's own privacy policy says every visit is continuously recorded by head- and wrist-mounted cameras and kept as training data for the models meant to eventually remove the operator.
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