> robots to help with child care
Tell me you don't have kids without telling me you don't have kids.
From an "efficiency" perspective, one can already eliminate 90% of the work of childcare by putting your kid in a sturdy playpen with a secure hard top and wearing noise canceling headphones. People don't really want to do this, for the most part.
The interactive learning is the entire point of childcare. Having machines raise your kids will make it so you end up with kids that were raised by machines. Is that what you want? It seems like this is basically already a thing, with the varying amounts of screen time that parents will allow kids.
What if robots were to assist with other tasks while the parent was preoccupied with the child? Like cooking, cleaning up, laundry, shopping.
Sure, but those are incremental gains rather than some sea change. And for the most part that market already exists. The problem is those things have no easy answers. From the list the only thing I can see is some sort of decluttering robot that picked up and put away all the scattered toys, so robot vacuuming could be done. Maybe some kind of integrated laundry machine that did washing and drying in the same space, then a conveyor that sorted/folded/stacked clothes? Those would be helpful, but would ultimately just end up as another "buy this expensive gizmo also, to make your life slightly easier"