Citation needed, I have not seen any sign of this. I mean, China having humanoid robots running around is a cool demo and none of that is useful.
Here's one, https://www.weaverobotics.com/isaac-0, a $4000 static laundry folding robot. Of course it's only available in California and some unspecified percentage of folding will be completed via teleoperation.
Same company claims they will soon start selling an $8000 mobile maid bot that tidies and folds laundry.
IDK, it looks like it needs lots of work. If it was actually able to pick up my crap and fold my laundry, I'd be tempted, but it would also need to not phone home with camera data, the audio or other content of conversations. I'd also want an easy way to shut it down in an emergency.
When you can replace human sewing machine operators in garment factories, that's when you'll see widespread adoption of robots across the economy. Managing big pieces of fabric is hard.
I think we've still got a long way to go before we get jetsons style robot maids.
> that’s just the start.
Every single absurd AI claim can only speak about the future. We have invested more than the annual GDP of a Nordic country into this stuff in the last few years and have only forward thinking statements to show for it.