On: Forecast: Sex and Marriage with Robots by 2050

[henning]

1960s prediction: by the 1990s robots will do chores for us and make us waffles for breakfast like on the Jetsons.

[cstejerean → henning]

so it looks like we dropped the ball a bit on innovation. Actually I don't think robots that do some chores would be particularly hard to build, but they would probably be so expensive it might be cheaper to a) do it yourself, or b) hire a maid