Keep in mind the videos in the article were sped up 6-10x, and even at that speed they were painfully slow compared to what a human could do in person. If you

Keep in mind the videos in the article were sped up 6-10x, and even at that speed they were painfully slow compared to what a human could do in person. If you can hire a remote operator to control a robot for half of the hourly wage that you would have to pay for someone to show up in-person to perform the same task that's still not anywhere close to economical if the robot also takes 10x as long, even if you ignore the up-front cost of the robot itself. In order for something like that to make sense the robots would either have to become comparable to humans in the speed at which they are able perform their respective tasks, or the tasks would need to be at least partially automated so that an operator can control multiple robots at once.