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.

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)

I'm not a fan of sites that pretend to be a company, with a product/service coming in the near future, when it's nothing more than a pipe dream.

If the info on the website is the idea. It's way too expensive for the use cases listed. I don't think a robot can do most of the things listed, certainly not better than a human. I also don't need extensive training, and a few hours, to learn how to operate a human I hire, they presumably know more than me and I just point to the problem and they take care of it better than I could even explain.

So I can rent for up to 3 months, with a base cost of $1,042. Estimated price to buy my own starts at $25,000. Are people going to pay $93k to rent a $25k robot for 3 months?

You mention hacking the rented robot. That would certainly violate the terms of the rental would it not? How can a rental company send it into someone else's home when the person before spent their time doing who know's what to it's programming? That could be very dangerous.

The only way this works is for on-off specific tasks that the robot is purpose built for... like renting a carpet shampooer from the grocery store. Make Roomba version of a carpet shampooer and people will probably rent that for $60/day instead of the $40 for the manual one.

The biggest issue is that you don't have a robot to rent, so this is like asking what features of a generation starship I'd like before renting one, or where exactly I would like my Stargate to go.

You can collect all the data you want, but when it's very clear to everyone you're talking to that this is just smoked-banana-peels level of conjecture, that data is worthless.

I'm with blinkbat: show me a task these robots can actually do! Humanoids are just not useful yet. Dishes? nah, these robots are not water proof. Vacuum? nah, wrong form factor. Dusting? definitely not worth $1,000 a month. Cooking? again, not water-proof and they can't do it either. Tidying up? again not worth the money. Folding laundry? maybe! but still very difficult for them and again, price would need to come down a lot.