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Residential snow clearing

Snow removal service (per visit) vs Autonomous snow blower robot

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إنسان · سنويًا‏٨٠٠ US$Snow removal service
روبوت · سنويًا‏٢٬١٣٩ US$Buy a snow robot
فترة الاسترداد365 أشهر
سنة التقاطعليس قبل 2035Base-case year (earliest to latest across scenarios)

On these numbers people are clearly cheaper. The robot would sit idle most of the time; it pays off at higher volume or longer hours. Payback is longer than three years, which is longer than many robot contracts and some robot companies.

الولايات المتحدة · USD · BLS OEWS May 2025 national medians by SOC occupation

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افتراض

Clearings per winter month.

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Hours per day it may run.

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Days per month.

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Snow months per year.

العمالة
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

BLS OEWS May 2025 national median hourly wage, SOC 37-3011.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Wages and salaries were 70.0% of total employer compensation cost for private industry workers in June 2026 (ECEC), so total cost = wage / 0.70.

ilostat.ilo.org

Nominal 4.4% a year, 2015-2025 (ILOSTAT hourly earnings).

الأسعار
مشتق HomeGuide

Midpoint of $30-$70 per visit for a standard driveway.

الروبوت
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Clearings per robot-hour for a two-car driveway.

Yarbo US store

Yarbo Y40P core with snow blower module.

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DIY setup.

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Yearly parts share of price.

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Useful life in years.

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Availability.

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Clearings lost to faults or stuck robots.

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Visits you still need: heavy wet snow, the plough berm at the end of the drive.

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Your time is not costed.

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kWh per robot-hour.

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Electricity price per kWh (USD). Check your bill; energy is rarely a big line.

التمويل
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Annual financing / discount rate. Nobody publishes yours; 8% is a round mid-2026 commercial borrowing guess.

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Years in the NPV comparison.

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Share of a human service price that is labour (rises with wages). Used to escalate and to adjust US service prices to other countries.

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Share of a robot service price that is labour (pilot, technician). The rest is equipment, which learning curves make cheaper.

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Share of a lease or RaaS fee that pays for hardware (learns down). The rest is service and support (moves with wages).

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النتائج

الخيارشهريًاسنويًاPer unit (visit)التكلفة الأوليةفترة الاستردادBreak-even utilisation5-year NPV vs baseline
إنسان Snow removal service خط الأساس ‏٦٦٫٦٧ US$‏٨٠٠ US$‏٥٠٫٠٠ US$— — — —
روبوت Buy a snow robot ‏١٧٨ US$‏٢٬١٣٩ US$‏١٣٤ US$‏٧٬٢٩٩ US$ 365 أشهر ٦٪؜
Utilisation ٢٪؜
 ؜-‏٥٬٣٧٠ US$

What moves the answer most

Each bar shows the 5-year NPV of the best robot option when one input moves to the low or high end of its range, with the rest held at your values.

5-year NPV vs baseline: Buy a snow robot5-year NPV vs baseline: Buy a snow robotWorkloadlow value: 1 → ؜-‏٧٬٣٢٩ US$high value: 10 → ؜-‏١٬٤٥١ US$Robot purchase pricelow value: 5000 → ؜-‏٢٬٨٥٦ US$high value: 9000 → ؜-‏٧٬٢٣٠ US$Useful life or contractlow value: 4 → ؜-‏٧٬٨١٨ US$high value: 10 → ؜-‏٣٬٧٣٧ US$Active months per yearlow value: 2 → ؜-‏٦٬٦٧٦ US$high value: 6 → ؜-‏٤٬٠٦٤ US$Snow removal servicelow value: 30 → ؜-‏٦٬٤٢٠ US$high value: 70 → ؜-‏٤٬٣٢٠ US$Work that stays humanlow value: 0.05 → ؜-‏٤٬٨٨٠ US$high value: 0.4 → ؜-‏٦٬٠٢٣ US$Financing and discount ratelow value: 0.05 → ؜-‏٥٬١٥١ US$high value: 0.12 → ؜-‏٥٬٦٢٠ US$Wage growth per yearlow value: 0.0236 → ؜-‏٥٬٤٢٩ US$high value: 0.0636 → ؜-‏٥٬٣٠٩ US$Electricity price per kWhlow value: 0.08 → ؜-‏٥٬٣٦٤ US$high value: 0.3 → ؜-‏٥٬٣٨٢ US$؜-‏٥٬٣٧٠ US$low valuehigh valueSource: Whirrwork Robot-or-Human model v1.0.0 (whirrwork.com/tools/robot-vs-human/snow-removal/). Modelled estimate, not a fact.

Cost per unit to 2035

Real terms (today's money). Robot hardware follows Wright's law; wages follow each country's history. Shaded band: robots-slow to robots-fast scenarios. تقديرات من نموذج Whirrwork، وليست حقائق.

Chartتكلفة الإنسان لكل وحدة (الأساسي), تكلفة الروبوت لكل وحدة (الأساسي), تكلفة الروبوت لكل وحدة (الروبوتات: تقدّم سريع), تكلفة الروبوت لكل وحدة (الروبوتات: تقدّم بطيء). Source: Whirrwork Robot-or-Human model v1.0.0 (whirrwork.com/tools/robot-vs-human/snow-removal/). Modelled estimate, not a fact.‏٠٫٠٠ US$‏٥٠٫٠٠ US$‏١٠٠ US$2026202720282029203020312032203320342035USD / visitscenario rangeتكلفة الإنسان لكل وحدة (الأساسي)تكلفة الروبوت لكل وحدة (الأساسي)تكلفة الروبوت لكل وحدة (الروبوتات…تكلفة الروبوت لكل وحدة (الروبوتات…Source: Whirrwork Robot-or-Human model v1.0.0 (whirrwork.com/tools/robot-vs-human/snow-removal/). Modelled estimate, no…

سنة التقاطع: ليس قبل 2035

What the spreadsheet misses

السلامة
Shovelling is a known cardiac risk for older people; that, not cost, is the strongest case here.
الجودة
Clears little and often, so snow never piles up.
المرونة
A service brings a plough for big storms.
Edge cases
Heavy, wet or very deep snow; gravel drives.
Customer experience
Wakes nobody at 5 a.m. (unless it beeps).
Jobs and redeployment
Seasonal snow contractors lose small driveways first.
التنظيم
None; keep it off public sidewalks unless your town allows it.

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