Most of these things have long since been disrupted:

Making meals :- go to a cafe, been around for centuries, uber eats etc. Worst case, get frozen meals (some are really good) and bung them in the microwave.

Driving Kids :- Taxi, bus, chauffeur, again have been around for ages, auto drive cars are not that far away, but will you be willing to abandon your kids to the machine?

Grocery and other shopping:- Amazon, online shopping.

Picking up:- If you can't manage to put things away yourself, then get a maid or cleaner.

As somebody else posted, most of these automated devices don't seem to have got much further than they were in the tech shows of the late 70's, they just have more "AI" built in the seem to be designed to make you purchase from their vendor.

> Driving Kids :- Taxi, bus, chauffeur, again have been around for ages, auto drive cars are not that far away, but will you be willing to abandon your kids to the machine?

Are they willing to abandon kids to the machine?

iPhones, iPads, Nintendo's, dvd players, netflix?

What's one more "machine" taking care of kids?

True. I was more considering the average helicopter parent allowing a machine to drive their kids to school or some such.

Hell... I would think those types (Helicopter) would be the first in line.

Think of it... self flying vehicles that control where your kids go.

That's right up there with iPhone tracking your kid.

There is one exception - the robo-vacuum. It's good enough today to run 99% unattended (you still have to empty the dust bin by hand and clean hairs from its wheels). It does a more thorough job than a human already.

We've had a Rumba for some time. In the early days it was used regularly, now almost never. I don't know why, but I find that 5 minutes with a manual vacuum achieves a far better result than watching the Rumba bash it's way around the room for 30 minutes or more.

I’ve found the wireless vacuum (eg Dyson) to be even better: you just pull it out, vacuum, put it back. It’s more powerful than a robovac and, without cord fussing, incredibly low overhead.

Depends on the size of the floor. In my house it would take half an hour to do everything by hand, but just one minute to start the robovac.

I use a Xiaomi Mi which has more "smarts" than a Roomba.