I’ll hold off on a household robot. My kids tortured the Roomba vacuum cleaner to death. Now that they are old enough for chores, they’d probably like one right now, but I’m not buying another.
Just the two of us and only a cat to tease the roomba, although we are in the market for a puppy in the future. We will be moving within the next 18-24 months and I will see what sort of house we end up with. Roomba and the floor washing version are too limited, IMO.
We are getting older and there are many household chores I would love to delegate and a shortage of affordable help. Right now, I’d guess we pay out over $1100/year in various services. I’ve seen $20k estimates for an eventual household/yard work robot and I would guess they would be available, eventually, on some sort of long term lease. I’m hoping we can stay in our home until we die and we will definitely have less than 20 years to go when/if the household robot becomes a reality. We would prefer it to Meals On Wheels or a live-in au pair.