Where are all the helpful robots?

One of the big predictions made about the future, in the past, was that we would have robots to do the most mundane, menial and degrading tasks. They would free up time for human beings to enjoy more of their lives. We have robots. We've had them for decades. In recent years, they have become increasingly sophisticated. But barring a handful of robotic vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers, there seems to be very little effort to make robots particularly helpful to humans in everyday life. There seems,