Like many in my generation, I grew up watching the Jetsons, and the idea of a maid robot (like Rosie) was appealing for obvious reasons. I now have a robot that can vacuum my apartment and a machine that washes my dishes. While I don't have Rosie doing these manual tasks for me, technology is indeed automating mundane tasks in my home... The vision that science fiction and Hollywood sells to us as it relates to Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the one of a fully-functional humanoid robot, or a computer with human intelligence. They might want to kill you (the Terminator, or H.A.L. from 2001: A Space Odyessy) or they might be here to help you (Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation), but they are always highly cognitive machines, sometimes with human like personalities with emotions included (sorry Data!).