Here we go again: CES (aka the Consumer Electronics Show) officially kicks off tomorrow, running from January 9–12. The world’s largest consumer electronics show returns to Las Vegas to set the technology trends for the year.

Last year, BMW trotted out its mesmerizing color-changing i Vision Dee electric car, we got a glimpse at wireless TVs, and we checked out the weird world of AR smart glasses and VR headsets for your face.

We expect to see more of that, but there’s one tech buzzword you can count on hearing a lot: AI. You can bet on artificial intelligence being everywhere — even in devices where it might make little sense. But such is the nature of CES. It’s a place to see the future before everyone inevitably lives it.

Sci-fi tropes find their way into tech all the time.

There are holograms (looking at you, Humane), personal AI assistants (not HAL, thank God), flying cars (sort of), creepy AI, and the list goes on.

But if there's one trope that has really endured, both in the world of sci-fi and consumer tech, it’s robots — especially the domestic kind. Robots that do your chores; robots that drive you to work; robots that watch your kids and then try to murder your family. You know what I’m talking about. You’ve heard this story before.

Clearly, in the back of lots of inventors and big tech companies’ minds — Amazon, Tesla, and Ford to name a few — it all comes back to robots, too. That’s why, with the help of their expertise and unparalleled capital, we now live in a world where there’s a robot in every home so that you never have to do another chore ever again — wait a second...