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No you can't. You can only pay to transfer them to someone else on top of their own.

It's fundamentally different from how a machine or some code makes a task actually go away or at least become smaller.

pliny
There are already cheap, domestic robots for cleaning dishes, cleaning the floor, cleaning clothes, making coffee, heating and cooling food, turning screws, drilling holes and so on. All those robots represent a greater than 90 percent (and sometimes a greater than 99 percent) savings in time relative to doing the same tasks manually. You still have to move the objects they operate on around within your house but that's mostly the only part of the task you have to do.
Der_Einzige
As someone who played the roomba game quite a bit - you transfer the problem of vacuuming to the problem of very frequent robot cleaning. I've saved more time switching to a high powered central vac than I ever did with constantly cleaning the robot because I had the audacity to own a fluffy dog.

Also people claiming cleaning isn't "creative" or "fun". Steam has a whole genre of games simulating cleaning stuff because the act of cleaning is extremely fun and creative to a lot of people: https://store.steampowered.com/app/246900/Viscera_Cleanup_De... being a great example

Actually I do NOT want my robot to do my laundry for me! And because I'm garbage at painting and comparatively better at laundry, I DO want it to paint for me.

account42
> Also people claiming cleaning isn't "creative" or "fun". Steam has a whole genre of games simulating cleaning stuff because the act of cleaning is extremely fun and creative to a lot of people: https://store.steampowered.com/app/246900/Viscera_Cleanup_De... being a great example

Someone making a game about an activity doesn't mean that the activity is fun or desirable in real life at all.

I mean yes there are people that find comfort in cleaning but they are not the target audience of cleaning simulators at all.

dzhiurgis
$500 robots (ie Mova) are very impressive nowadays. You can even integrate plumbing into them so you really not doing much.

Washer dryer combos are good too. Folding laundry is biggest pain of my life so far. Also unloading dishwasher, but fix is easy here - get double one.

sanex
I think the 10 percent is more work than you give it credit for.
Thorrez
Unfortunately many things aren't dishwasher safe, some things don't fit in the dishwasher, and often certain types of food are not properly washed off in the dishwasher.
marcosdumay
> All those robots represent a greater than 90 percent savings in time relative to doing the same tasks manually.

Lol, nope.

Dishwashers solve at best some 50% of the hassle that are the easy to wash table dishes, while being completely unable to clean oven ones. Floor cleaners solve a 5 minutes task in a couple-of-days-long house upkeep. Coffee makers... don't really automate anything, why did you list them here? And there's no automation available for heating and cooling food. And the part about drilling and turning screws also isn't automation at all.

The only thing on your list that is close to solved is clothes cleaning. And there's the entire ironing thing that is incredibly resistant to solving. But yeah, that puts it way beyond 90% solved.

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