Oliver Conway

Early adopters, though, will have to be comfortable waiving their privacy when humans take charge.

A lot of our early customers are people that actually will have a lot of value from this.

Way higher value than having a second car.

There are several domestic bot companies here in Silicon Valley.

Once again, it's an epicentre for the latest emerging AI tech trend.

Sunday AI will start shipping its bot Memo next year.

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.