the world will end before we see AI able to crawl through some of the spaces we have to, cut pipes and tee off of them
the UK will never beable to roll out prefab houses, unless somehow the cities get flattened and rebuilt. Even then, building regulations and control will have a field day halting all those plans
Yeah i mean for sure society as a whole will have to change, and it won't be "AI" doing it, but what ai will do for robotics is like what the internet did for commerce.
"The UK will never be able to roll out mass prefab houses", You sound like some boomer 30-40 years ago who said " the internet will never catch on".
The world can change a lot in 30-40 years.
They may not even have to, There is absolutely no reason why a swarm of robots powered by AI could not do renovations/maintenance on a current house. You are just waiting for when the weight/navigation/battery life problem can be solved (which ai will accelerate)
RaaS is worth £13billion in the USA, and is predicted to be 1trillion by 2035/2040.
Just because the UK is the least innovative western country, doesn't mean its not coming.