Just posted to my Forbes column about Agibot’s new robots-as-a-service model, which lets you rent a humanoid robot for a cool $1,000 per day.
On the surface, that sounds like a big step toward making robots more accessible. Agibot will deliver, set up and support its A2 humanoids, X2 compact bots, and even its industrial G2 model. For events, brand activations or short-term tests, that price can actually make sense compared to buying a robot outright, which likely runs into the low six figures. But at nearly $30,000 a month, this is not a long-term labor replacement play. For now, it’s more marketing budget than payroll strategy.
“California minimum wage is 20 bucks an hour. How do you ever not put a robot in that spot at 40 cents an hour?” futurist Peter Diamandis told me. His point: today’s pricing feels high, but if costs drop to even $10 a day over the next decade, the economics flip dramatically.
For now, workers can relax. At $1,000 a day, these robots are conversation starters and test platforms, not true job killers. But if prices fall as fast as some predict, that sigh of relief may be temporary.