The optimist in me wants to believe that long term, things like these will grow our food and maintain our houses for free so that labor generally won't be neces

The optimist in me wants to believe that long term, things like these will grow our food and maintain our houses for free so that labor generally won't be necessary. Once we've fully automated the necessities of life to the degree that it is free for all (no world hunger, no housing crisis, etc.) then we can get to the tough stuff like hard academic problems in physics, solving death, room temperature superconductors, fusion, etc. In the meantime the average person who used to slave away at a 9-5 can now just do whatever they want because they don't have to worry about where their next meal will come from. People not used to having a hobby or any spare time at all might have a hard time adapting here (at least at first), but I think in general people will be happier with life. If your question is "what's the point of anything when a robot could do it," your real question is "what's the point of life," which is an exercise left to the reader.