Cooking and folding clothes aren't going to be automated for a long time. Fine motor control is a hard problem that has resisted automation for decades. GPUs and RNNs don't help.

You need fingertips with lots of nerves, and probably thousands of very nuanced motor control paradigms.

I'd be happy with just laying the clothes flat so they don't wrinkle. That way I can get to it whenever. Especially if they're pressed first.

Buy wrinkle resistant clothes - they can be washed without needing pressing.

No thanks, my current workflow works just fine.

There are demos of robots folding random laundry. They are slow and expensive, but that's the stuff that improves over time.

Sure, actual cooking won't be. However, taking a frozen entrée and heating it could very easily be automated.

Cooking has been automated for many people for a long time, all they need to do is open the microwave door.

Automate sleep too?

As in, the process in the brain? Because if I could turn on 'sleep mode' while maintaining enough consciousness to perform basic tasks/hobbies then several hours later turn off 'sleep mode' to regain full consciousness and feel fully rested then _YES_ sign me up for automated sleep.

Some people call that mode a meeting.

Or make sleep more efficient.

Sleep pods (or smart beds as they'll be more likely to be called if invented any time soon) that repair your body and inject you with nutrients, making you feel as good as new when you wake up, to the point of not needing sleep again for a few days.

Pretty sure you will always need sleep every day for optimal functioning. Unless you have nanobots cleaning things up maybe.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/brain-may-flus...

I could totally use the "making you feel as good as new when you wake up" part, though.