I think your guess that home robotics will be solving problems before self-driving cars git gud will be disproven (industrial robotics have been delivering value for five decades at least).
Home robotics has to solve two problems: the robot and operating the robot ~perfectly. Self-driving cars already have cars, which are waldos, if you squint. What sort of sensors should be added is up for debate but the actuation mechanism is a solved problem, and a very simple one, cars have three linear inputs and two binary ones for the turn signals. Technically a few more but none of them are any less trivial.
There's less risk of a fatality when Rosie Robot knocks over the vase you inherited from your grandmother, but people are no more tolerant of that kind of failure in home robots than they are in cars.
And cleaning a house isn't one task. It's a whole slew of different tasks which, given some basic instructions, my housekeeper can handle easily without supervision. And there's quite a bit of common sense required.
Home robotics has to solve two problems: the robot and operating the robot ~perfectly. Self-driving cars already have cars, which are waldos, if you squint. What sort of sensors should be added is up for debate but the actuation mechanism is a solved problem, and a very simple one, cars have three linear inputs and two binary ones for the turn signals. Technically a few more but none of them are any less trivial.
There's less risk of a fatality when Rosie Robot knocks over the vase you inherited from your grandmother, but people are no more tolerant of that kind of failure in home robots than they are in cars.