The whole idea here is to end (or at least massively reduce) scarcity.
Being poor doesn't cause people to understand economics. Being mad at how things are doesn't mean you know how to fix things.
Owned by billions of humans.
Essentially everywhere. They will be more common then smart phones.
Quite a bit at first, then less, eventually very cheap. The same way cell phones used to be expensive things only rich people had and cost 50 cents a minute to use, then they got cheap at scale and everyone has one and nobody even thinks about how many minuets they have anymore.
I would imagine some governments will try to ban personal ownership / control of advanced robots and AI models in general, but I don't think this is something that can be successful short of a full North Korea style cut off from the outside world.
For the vast majority of the world these will be come very cheap and plentiful and even if the AI models are restricted it will be fairly trivial to download and install your own, probably even to make your own eventually. It's hard to restrict the distribution of software. The Pirate Bay still exists after all.
I'm sure most of them will have a subscription for updates, because it's a technology that will advance so fast nearly everyone will want updates, but there will for sure be open hardware platforms and there already are open AI models. Nothing is going to stop this technology from spreading short of an apocalyptic destruction of modern infrastructure.
I'm sure they will try to tax it every way they can. I suspect UBI funded by the machines will be pushed hard. It's economically insane, but the fact that bad people will try to steal wealth isn't a good reason not to generate wealth.
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