Since the July 12, 2024 podcast, several humanoid and advanced general-purpose robots have indeed reached roughly the US$20,000 price point and become commercially offered, matching Jason’s order‑of‑magnitude prediction.

Concrete examples:

• 1X Technologies’ NEO home humanoid robot opened global preorders in October 2025 at a listed price of US$20,000 (or a $499/month subscription), with deliveries scheduled for 2026, marketed explicitly as a consumer-ready humanoid home assistant.​​ (en.wikipedia.org)
• Chinese firms are also targeting similar or lower prices: Unitree’s R1 humanoid was announced in 2025 at about US$5,900, and its other humanoids (G1, H1) plus competing platforms like Pudu’s D9 and Neura’s 4NE‑1 cluster in the mid‑five‑figure or sub‑US$20k–30k band, placing advanced humanoids in the same order of magnitude as US$20,000.​ (nypost.com)
• UBTech publicly discussed selling a home/elder‑care humanoid at around US$20,000, further corroborating that manufacturers see ~US$20k as a realistic commercial price point for such robots in this timeframe.​ (cybernews.com)
• While Tesla Optimus itself is not yet sold to outside customers, Elon Musk and Tesla have repeatedly framed Optimus’s intended price in the roughly US$20,000–30,000 range, reinforcing that this is the expected commercial band for Optimus‑class humanoids.​ (digitimes.com)

Because humanoid and Optimus‑class robots are now actually being offered for sale or preorder at ~US$20,000 in the 2024–2026 window that would reasonably count as the "foreseeable near term" from the podcast date, the substance of Jason’s prediction has come true.