Which is to say, they'll be banned in the US.

How long until we’re like Cuba, still tooling around in 50s cars. But maybe that’ll actually be seen as some kind of Luddite utopia in the future.

The 1950s in US didn't have vaccines, robots, or data centers.

~1min per shirt in a controlled environment. Better but still far away.

Also, 24h 365d, which is superior to humans.

And? Still in a controlled environment. I cannot pick one up today from a store.

laundry folding is some superficial benchmark, real impact will be made in controlled environments in factories, packing centers, etc.

And? Please scroll the start of this thread. Robotics is a long way off, we need better models and more compute. I am not sure what you are arguing for.

My point is that robotics is not long way off, but already has strong utility and gradually taking over more and more functions.

How many years have people been saying that? Remind me of this post in 5 years.

and for how many years has it already been true that robots are taking over more and more tasks