Can consumer humanoid robots become useful before they become creepy?

[Shane95]

Humanoid robots still feel like the category that everyone wants to believe in, but nobody can quite explain what normal families would actually use them for every day. I can imagine them helping older people, carrying things around the house, doing basic security checks or acting as mobile AI assistants, but I can also imagine the first generation being expensive, noisy and awkward. The real question for me is whether usefulness arrives before the creepy factor ruins public trust

[NinaVrina]

I would be interested if it could do boring physical chores, but I do not need a robot standing in the corner watching me make tea

[NeonPhantom]

People will say they hate them, then buy one the second it folds laundry properly

[Glenn_44]

The useful version is probably not humanoid at all. Wheels, arms and a boring design might win before the sci fi shape does

[Cheeky Shaun]

My concern is updates. A robot in the house that changes behaviour after a software update is not something I want to debug at midnight