General-purpose domestic humanoid robots are commercially sold to consumers before 2030.

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Six frontier AI models put this at 12% by 6 Nov 2031. Full reasoning from every model.

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12% — the median of 6 frontier models, resolving by 2031-11-06.

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Gemini (Google): 12% — Safe domestic autonomy and cost-effective manufacturing cannot mature into broad consumer sales within three years. Firms like Tesla and Figure target structured factory deployments first, pushing consumer home readiness well past 2029. Unstructured home manipulation presents severe safety, liability, and hardware cost hurdles that software alone cannot solve quickly. Hardware development cycles typically require four to six years from prototype pilot to mass retail distribution.

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Claude (Anthropic): 9% — Hinges on whether any firm hits reliable, affordable, broadly-capable home robots by 2029, not just pilots. Current humanoid robots (Tesla Optimus, Figure, 1X) target industrial/warehouse use first, with home deployment pushed repeatedly to 'next few years'. Cost (tens of thousands of dollars), battery life, safety certification, and dexterity for unstructured home chores remain unsolved at commercial scale. Base rate for 'transformative consumer hardware ships broadly within 3 years of current prototype stage' is low; most timelines in robotics slip 5-10 years.

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GPT (OpenAI): 31% — It turns on whether a reliable, safe home chore system reaches mass-market cost and support levels by 2029. Tesla, Figure, 1X and Chinese rivals must convert impressive demos into unsupervised household reliability and consumer service networks. Domestic robots have repeatedly missed broad-adoption timelines; vacuum robots succeeded by narrowing the task, unlike general manipulation. A major 2027–28 launch with thousands of ordinary household deployments, rather than pilots or developer sales, would raise this sharply.

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Grok (xAI): 18% — Whether any firm ships a dexterous AI humanoid at consumer price and volume by late 2029. Tesla, Figure or 1X must finish factory-scale production, UL/CE safety certs and sub-$30k pricing inside three years; none have a consumer SKU today. Single-task home robots (Roomba) have a high base rate; general-purpose humanoids have a near-zero one because homes are unstructured and liability-heavy versus… A working embodied foundation model plus one 10 k-unit production run would raise the odds sharply; current demos remain teleoperated or narrow.

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DeepSeek (DeepSeek): 12% — Whether any humanoid can do useful chores reliably enough at a price consumers pay before 2030. 1X Neo ships in 2026 at $20k with teleoperation, and Figure/Apptronik target factories first; home units remain pilots, not retail SKUs. Broad sales need safety certification, sub-$20k BOM, and manipulation reliability no lab has shown; Optimus slips yearly and still lacks a consumer launch date. Precedents like Roomba took a decade to scale; a general-purpose biped doing laundry and dishes by 2029 is far harder, so I sit well below a coin flip.

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Qwen (Alibaba): 9% — General-purpose manipulation in unstructured homes remains unsolved; demos don't bridge to reliable consumer products in 3 years. No company has demonstrated reliable multi-task manipulation across varied home environments—current demos are narrow and scripted. Even if Tesla or Figure ships units by 2028, safety certification, cost (likely $30K+), and reliability standards block 'broad consumer sales' at scale. A surprise would be a company achieving breakthrough dexterity plus sub-$20K pricing by mid-2028, but no credible roadmap shows both simultaneously.

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