They should put “arrives” in quotes, not Jetsons.
If you can’t buy this or have it independently tested, it hasn’t arrived anywhere. Just more “home robots are really here this time guys, really I mean it this time, really. Invest more billions in our company and you’ll get one, for real.”
People can do this job, and better, and cheaper. Anyone who can afford something like this, and I think well into the future, can easily afford a house cleaning service. Also, people don’t record everything they see and everything you say and upload it to corporate servers to be stored forever.
I’m with you 100% from the privacy and cybersecurity perspectives. That said, if they can be solved (e.g. at some point there will simply be no need for any more training data, and computers will be fast enough to do all the fancy stuff locally), I’d vastly prefer having an appliance do my housekeeping chores than a cleaning service.
