What can a smart home (and robot) do for you?

More people are now wearing smart watches, carrying smart phones, and now living in smart homes. The devices that we interact with in our everyday lives are just getting ‘smarter’. Homes equipped with smart and automated devices such as thermostats and lights already communicate with smart phones, so that people can turn the lights on and off without even having to be there.
The more automated or smart our homes become, aren’t we going to be living inside what is essentially a robot?
Given that the smart home can collect and learn from data about your daily habits, and come up with the optimum time to turn on/off different devices in the home, what should this giant robot optimize for?

This week, we take a look at the houses that are gradually becoming smarter.