Robots will do more than a third of household chores by 2033.
Robots will be able to 39 per cent of household chores by 2033
Researchers from the UK and Japan asked 65 artificial intelligence (AI) experts to predict the amount of robotic involvement in common household tasks in 10 years and estimated that 39 per cent of the time spent on chores could be automated.
The experts from the University of Oxford and Ochanomizu University predicted that grocery shopping was likely to see the most automation with caring for the young or old least likely to be impacted by robots.
Study author Ekaterina Hertog, associate professor in AI and Society at Oxford University, said that the findings- which were published in the journal PLOS ONE - draws parallels with the optimism that surrounds self-driving cars.
She said: "The promise of self-driving cars, being on the streets, replacing taxis, has been there, I think, for decades now - and yet, we haven't been able quite to make robots function well, or these self-driving cars navigate the unpredictable environment of our streets. Homes are similar in that sense."