Taking a humanoid robot into everyday life

I'm going to China in May 2027, and I'm curious enough about humanoid robots to consider bringing one home. I'd like to try an experiment and see where it takes me, including finding out what I might actually want to do with one.

I keep hearing that those impressive YouTube videos are staged, carefully controlled, or show a robot doing one very specific thing. Perhaps that's fair. Still, my hope for what this technology could become makes me reluctant to leave it there. Part of me thinks there must be more to it. I realise that hope might be getting ahead of what's possible today, and I'm curious enough to want to find out for myself.

Some ideas are quite ordinary. Carrying dishes from the kitchen to the living room, fetching the post from downstairs, perhaps putting things in the dishwasher. Cleaning the car might be ambitious. I don't yet know where the practical limits would be, or which apparently simple task would turn out to be surprisingly difficult.

Why a humanoid? Who knows. There's something about the prospect of having one around that makes me want to explore it. I can imagine discovering uses I haven't thought of, and abandoning others that seemed obvious before I tried them.

I'd particularly like to take it into town, perhaps carrying my shopping. What happens along the way interests me as much as getting the shopping home. Would people approach it? Speak to it? Would I find myself explaining what it was doing, or apologising because we were in someone's way? I wonder how differently I'd behave with a robot walking beside me.

That leaves quite a lot open, which is part of the appeal. I'd like to give myself room to follow whatever turns out to be interesting, including the problems I don't yet know to look for.