With modern robot companions, the thought process is to develop cognitive robots with the only purpose in life - to serve humans as an assistant or companion. Once perfected, the robots will have the ability to learn new tasks and skills in an open-needed manner and grow while interacting and co-operating with humans.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/index.php/blog/show/would-you-let-a-robot-companion-come-into-your-home