Teaser video from Tesla — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVFXsk0n24o

I'm not sure if this thing meets all the requirements of this market, but it's definitely some kind of progress.

@bessarabov related, but that looks like a fixed unit. This is awesome, but the description pretty clearly says it's something I can buy, for home use, which can "crawl around". We can talk about it if Tesla sells the above thing for <100k to the public. If so it seems like it would satisfy the spirit of the claim

Does it have to work on all current makes of car or will a model that works only on makes of car manufactured after a certain date count? I am thinking about cars designed to be cleaned by a robot...

@JussiVilleHeiskanen thanks for the question. It seems like the description is pretty clearly a type of bot which is rather able to see and make decisions on its own. So it doesn't seem possible now that a design change could make an otherwise incapable bot suddenly gain those abilities. But, if that does happen I'd be glad to come back and reevaluate this

Commercial systems definitely. Consumer probably not. It might be possible to buy a commercial system for <$100k

Demonstrated in the we robot event 10/10/2024

Self-driving Robotic car vacuum mole beasts yo