Oliver Conway

I'm Memo.

your future home robot here at Sunday.

Memo is again about five foot tall, but is not a full humanoid.

It has no legs, moving around slowly and smoothly on wheels.

It has long arms and a small head with an orange cap.

We watch it as it uses a coffee machine.

So Tony, can I just check with you?

There's no one that we can't see doing this for the robot.

This is all autonomous.

Memo also folded some socks, loaded a dishwasher and cleared a table, with one mistake.

Smashing the wine glass seems to have been a bad fluke, as the grip pad on its mitten-like hand wasn't right.

And actually, those robot mitten hands are part of the key to the company's success, as co-founder Tony Chow explains.

Sunday AI is of course paying these people to carry out hours of repetitive tasks to train the robot, a reminder of the human drudgery that often underpins AI.

It's not just in the US where people are getting excited about human-like robots.

The humanoid robot industry in China is so hot that the government there recently warned a bubble might be building set to burst.

Outside of the tech bubble, some, including the International Federation of Robotics, think it could take 20 years before domestic bots become truly useful and accepted.

Making your coffee now.

But AI robotics companies are convinced that things are moving fast, and eventually we'll all want one of their bots in our homes.

Our cyber correspondent, Joe Tidy.

And that is all from us for now, but the Global News Podcast will be back very soon.