robot A Boston Dynamics Inc. Atlas humanoid robot. (Photo: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg)

(Bloomberg) – Science fiction writers and technologists have been predicting the arrival of robot butlers for the better part of a century. So far, domestic robots have been relatively pedestrian: robot dogs, vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers. Rosie of "The Jetsons" fame? Not so much. That may be about to change.

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