Show HN: Would You Rent a Robot for Your Home?

1 MASNeo 3 6/19/2025, 9:21:45 PM
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

Comments (3)

conductr · 9m ago
I don't quite get the available tasks section with per task pricing. Can't I just rent it for the day and let it do my gardening, housecleaning, .... as much as it can get done in the time I have it? Or are you actually charging me based on the services I want performed?

If I rent a car, I don't pay different rates for mileage or where I take the car (tolls aside)

blinkbat · 4m ago
the robots are highly opinionated about what tasks they're given ;D
blinkbat · 23m ago
if it's cheaper than hiring a housecleaner... nah, I'd probably still hire the housecleaner, if just to support lower-income jobs done by humans.

more to your point, I'm struggling to think of even one task I'd let a robot attempt in my home, supervised or not.