What year do you think we'll have household robots doing advanced work?

Never
Such a design would be absurdly inefficient.

How so?

You mean what's inefficient about having a highly advanced and expensive piece of technology to... cook food, walk dogs, and wash the laundry?

Would be better to just advance the "smart house" designs that already exist if you want to eliminate most household chores, rather than design some silly robot with human appearance to do them.

This post was edited by taekvideo on Aug 3 2012 06:22pm

agreed.

integration>supplementation.

there is no reason to let the problem remain when you can phase it out altogether.

got a robot vacuum already .....

now it needs to be able to converse with you and have a fleshlight taped to it....actually forget the conversing part.