Welcome to the home of the future — complete with robots

Homes will be super high-tech within 20 years, say experts who predict home-help drones and mood-changing facades

What will homes of the future look like? Picture: Vodafone Home Broadband/PA

Houses that have learned what heating and lighting you need, with exteriors that can be changed to suit your mood, and interiors boasting home-help drones, basement greenhouses and pet-sitting robots, will be an option within 20 years.

That’s the prediction of a new report compiled by a group of home and tech experts, who believe there will be major changes to our living spaces over the next two decades, because home and work areas have been forced to merge during the pandemic.