Everyone’s buzzing about the $59,000 home robot that folds your laundry. Isaac, the new “AI” robot from Weave Robotics, has a dirty little secret: most of the folding is still done by humans. When Isaac can’t figure out your shirt, a person in a call center takes over. They call it “Remote Op.” I call it paying $59,000 for a remote worker with a plastic shell. We’ve seen this play before. Remember Builder.ai? “AI-built apps” that turned out to be coded by humans in India. Same magic trick, shinier packaging. Now—robots will change real estate. That’s not a debate. 24/7 property monitoring, automated maintenance checks, consistent cleaning. The use cases are real. Strip away the marketing, and here’s what you’re really buying. No specs on battery life. No payload capacity. No independent testing. Just hype reels and a vague “70% autonomy” claim. Breakthrough tech doesn’t need a human crutch. The iPhone wasn’t secretly run by a call center. Tesla’s autopilot doesn’t rely on some guy in Bangalore steering your car from a desk. The future of robotics is inevitable. What do you think—real robotics revolution, or one of the most expensive telecommuting gigs ever created?