From what I understand, the holy grail of AI+robotics is folding laundry and doing house cleaning. Yet do we really need maids consulting on these AI projects?

From what I understand, the holy grail of AI+robotics is folding laundry and doing house cleaning. Yet do we really need maids consulting on these AI projects? More generally, the proposal of building an intelligent system based off the input from experts in fields even as erudite as medical records processing seems like a step back in AI. Trying to feed all the known first principles into machine which will then deduce insights is the methodology which seems to fail time and again outside of narrow and well defined problems like Chess.