“Maybe not this year, or next, but it will happen.”
When? I got to ask Ray Kurzweil, perhaps the pre-eminent AI technology forecaster (Former head of the AI center at MIT, developer of OCR technology that first enabled computers to read text, and a VP at Google/Alphabet, who lead their robotics efforts).
He said that general purpose household robots would be coming out around the last few years of the 2020’s - about as strong, mobile and dexterous as humans.
Once you have machines generally capable of human-like work, the rest is software apps for specific tasks. They could also be operated remotely by human experts, or bigger specialized computers over the network.
I would add two thoughts here. One, for new construction at least almost all the tasks would be pre-programmed and there would probably be very little spot decision-making as is currently done with a human worker today. Of course artificial intelligence might be able to provide a certain amount of calculations to be done in the robotic brain in terms of cutting material to length and so forth.
The other factor would be the way houses are built will probably change. Perhaps more pre-fabricated sections that are delivered and assembled on site and put together by machines so they don’t have to cut every stick in the field.