BYD Announces Home Solar-Powered Humanoid Robot for $10,000

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BYD Announces Home Solar-Powered Humanoid Robot for $10,000! – CleanTechnica

The Chinese EV and battery giant has just introduced a general-purpose robot powered with advanced AI that can reportedly do difficult and nuanced tasks for you, like do the laundry, fold your clothes, vacuum, rake leaves, and even scrub the bathtub and toilets.

Whereas Tesla has a long-term goal of one day producing 1 million Optimus robots a year, bringing the cost down to $30,000 each, BYD is introducing this new humanoid robot at $10,000, with deliveries beginning in December 2025. That’s still a healthy chunk of cash, but it’s much more accessible to large portions of the population — the upper middle class or possibly even middle class, given the utility of the robot.

Going one step further, this BYD robot, named “BoYoboD,” is solar powered! It comes with a solar power charging kit that you place outside. When the robot gets low on battery — you can set that to be 10%, 20%, or whatever you prefer — it goes and plugs itself into a portable solar panel plus battery system that charges it up. So, yeah, BYD is going one step forward yet again and really building our dreams.

Naturally, the robot can also plug in your electric car for you. However, BYD has clarified that the robot can’t drive (yet).

 

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