Why everyone's excited about household robots again

I have a chair of shame at home. By that I mean a chair in my bedroom onto which I pile used clothes that aren't quite dirty enough to wash. For some inexplicable reason folding and putting away those clothes feels like an overwhelming task when I go to bed at night, so I dump them on the chair for "later." I would pay good money to automate that job before the chair is covered by a mountain of clothes. Thanks to AI, we're slowly inching towards the goal of household robots that can do our chores.