Tau prices home-robot footage at $30 an hour

Tau Robotics charges $30 for a one-hour cleaning by a teleoperated humanoid, and its service terms make continuous recording and a perpetual training license mandatory. Customers may ask Tau to delete raw footage, but the company’s privacy policy says prior influence on trained model parameters cannot be removed; unlike the safety-first promise behind 1X’s NEO home robot, Tau makes household video an explicit subsidy for cheap labor. Operators evaluating embodied-AI pilots should price data rights alongside the hourly fee, because ending the service does not end the license already granted.