This is just the first version of the technology. It could get much cheaper if manufactured in volume, and it can get faster as well. Rule of thumb is that 10x the volume cuts the price by half.
Robots like this are pretty common in the industry (like the mechanical industry) and one costs around 50k and we already produce them at scale.
How much can they lease it for, in your opinion?
There are other dishwashing robots. Useful for cafeterias, maybe.[2] Cute, but not too useful.[3] So far, none seem to be deployed much. But that will come.
[1] https://standardbots.com/blog/collaborative-robot-prices-the...
The 20k cobot would be the "blind" kind that is only useful in fully automated lines thst deal with the same type of product, not a dishwasher with a lot of variables
In 2003, PV panels were a pretty darn mature technology. The technology was decades old. Modules cost about $5 a watt, one twenty fifth the price they were in 1975. More than two gigawatts of them had been installed worldwide. (Millions of panels!) No way could they fall in price by half, right?
Surprise. By 2010 another 38 gigawatts of solar had been installed, and the price per watt was down to $2.32. No way could they fall in price by half again, right?
Surprise. $1.02 per watt in 2012, and another 61 gigawatts installed. $0.52 a watt in 2017. $0.26 a watt today.
Just in 2022, the world installed 86 times as much solar as existed on the entire planet in 2003.
If you build a lot of something, it can get very cheap indeed.
The components inside them are pretty standard too