Oh I don&#x27;t know, it seems to me that the PR2 is designed for industry so its pricing is going to reflect that. I suspect there is a home robot space that some startup can fill sooner than later. Whether it does all the things I listed is the big question and I suspect it won&#x27;t, but it may be able to do a few things that make it a worthwhile purchase.<p>I&#x27;ve played a bit with opencv, pcl, ros, etc. There&#x27;s some very impressive image recognition stuff available right now that works well on commodity x86 platforms(1). I don&#x27;t think the market is expecting a HAL-like or Jetsons like robot, but I could see something akin to an early 80s home computer where the product is clearly a long list of compromises but it does a few things very well and is compelling. Home robotics may be the same way for a while until it has its 1984 Macintosh moment, which as you say might be a decade or two or four away.<p>I did appreciate your posting, but I think its a little dismissive of the some of the homebrew and smaller scale stuff out there. The PR2 is a VC backed monster designed to bring industrial robots to retail, hospitals, etc. These guys want to build the 747 of the robot world. That&#x27;s great. But there are people out there building the Cessnas of the robotics world. I expect an affordable consumber product that isn&#x27;t a joke xmas 2018-2020. There&#x27;s just way too much potential here.<p>1. Home robot hackers falling in love with the super low power NUC which gives a CPUMark score around 5,000+<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.showusyoursensors.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;intel-nuc-for-ros.html#comment-form" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.showusyoursensors.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;intel-nuc-for-ros.h...</a>