Would You Rent a Robot for Your Home?

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I like robots. Building one is tough in my time, so I looked at buying, but with current uncertainty about capabilities I would not buy one outright. I would like to try one, for some time (maybe hack that?!). I would rent, but I can’t. So I thought maybe if I am not alone that could be useful to some. To try: https://roborentals.ch/ This is an experiment (including what loveable.dev is capable of in a single afternoon, not affiliated) to find out if there are others that love - pun intended - to rent and to collect feedback on the idea of modeling a robot rental service on a car rental business and pricing model. What would you like a service like that to cover, which features are you missing and what’s a turn-off, which assurances would you want, what would turn you away or do you think this is just not reasonable in any way? In short: what do you think? P.S.: sudo sorryforearliermispost --force

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