Household robots are about to reduce large prices – if the best player of the Chinese “robovac” has

Beijing – household robots for cleaning will quickly become affordable reality.

At least that’s what Quan Gang, President of Robot Cleaner Company Roborock based in Beijing, has in mind as strategic for the next five years. According to IDC Research, the company first ranks among the intelligent vacuum according to the share in the global market. Last week, she announced that almost 79%returned in the first half of this year. About half of the sale came from outside China.

In an exclusive interview with CNBC on Wednesday, Quan reeds that human robots would become part of many households by 2030, largely due to progress in generative artificial intelligence.

And he previously expects Roborock to make his latest, top-class Ai-Powred Robotic arm cleaner so cheap that the mass market will be able to aim at a maximum of several US dollars.

“If we focus only on the premium segment, in the end, except that we are the best robotic company in the world, we will have nothing,” Quan said in Mandarin, translated by CNBC. He noted that robotic vacuums still do not have a very high level of household penetration.

China, a large market with robot vacuums according to value, has a level of penetration of only 5.6%, while the United States, the second largest market, is estimated to be 22%of the Petering Peace in the next two years, and in the next two years it is up to 5.5%in the US.

Competition in the category of robotic vacuum + robotic arms is heated early this year on American consumer electronics, with Roborock and at least two other Chinese compaetitors that re -demonstrations. The driven arm removes obstacles from the way of the cleaner when the caroomo moves around the house.

So far, only Roborock has started selling one, called Saros Z70 – but with a heavy price price of AROUSE $ 2,600 at Amazon.com. Shows 141 reviews and rating 4.6. Roborock did not share specific sales details.

The initial reviews of the Saros Z70 from American technology, such as Mashable and Wired, were not impressed, especially due to the price, but hoped that there were more capable versions in the near future. Both recommended that consumers stick to the more traditional Roborock Saros 10R – which sell for $ 1,600.

Robot vacuum cleaners should develop products that “overlap top -of -the -range technologies and prices to accelerate adoption,” said Jin Liu, head analyst of small appliances in Euromonitor International.

But even if the price dropped, it would be just a small step to help the robot with cooking and other homework.

Vacuum cleaners are “only successful applications (robots) in our homes,” said Jeff Burnstein, President of the Association for Automation (A3). “This is after four decades of talking about how it will have robots in our house.”

“What caused that (robot) vacuum cleaner so successful is that it doesn’t cost so much,” he said. To make the same thing to enter humanoids, he said, there must be quality at the price.

Humanoids, such as the Chinese Startup Unitree, still cost thousands of US dollars and Don have clear cases of household use.

Despite his ambitions on the mass market of Roborock, he said that from tariffs that had to raise the Saros Z70 by $ 700 from the original $ 1.899.

Quan said Roborock began working with suppliers last year in Vietnam, where he said that the company could meet all its North American orders.

Looking forward, he said that the company was considering a global partnership in the supply chain, but does not require it to invest in building its OWL factories. Roborock’s plans for the Hong Kong list are primary to increase capital for international expansion, Quan said, noting that the company is also expanding under vacuum.

Over 79% of Roborock has returned to an increase, the company has more than doubled its expenditure, mostly research and development, thus affecting the loss of the company in the first half of the year.

Quan said that this year the company has hired almost 100 AI experts and is still hiring – with the eye to add almost 200 AI experts this year. He said many of the new tenants have overseas education or work experience.

The company has built a specialized AI laboratory in Shanghai and the Shenzhen Research Institute, soon after Roborock’s foundation in 2014. When Quan asked about computing power, he said there were many solutions and that NVIDIA chips were not the only option.

When it comes to improving the robotic arm on AI-A-A, “the challenge lies primary with algorithm and data,” said no hardware.

Because AI becomes more critical for domestic robots, Quan has an even greater vision.

“If this robot needs to be cleaned in your house, it will have to integrate the knowledge of cleaning that Roborock has accumulated over the years in algorithms, models, data and training,” he said. “Then it can be tied to the robot as an application.”

“This robot can be Tesla or Unitree or someone else, … But in the area of ​​cleaning it will be inseparable from Roboro,” he said, claiming that the company has the best cleaning data. Another company may have the best data for robots that can be cooked, said.

The humanoid market is likely to reach $ 5 trillion by 2050, according to Morgan Stanley, only $ 800 billion.

“For humanoids, if they can do more than one thing, they compete against an existing form factor that can do one thing very well,” Burnstein said. But not the notes surrounding the world expect that there is a large market for safe and affordable humanoids that can cook, clean, help seniors and do other things.

“We are not with technology yet, but maybe we will get there, and maybe multitasking would be a differential differential,” he said. “So you wouldn’t need 5 robots. Maybe he just need it.”