For those wanting someone to bring this back, there seems to be a lot of projects on Kickstarter and Indiegogo relating to robots and AI. For instance, the famous one JIBO.[1] Actually, JIBO calls itself "the world's first family robot" which would not be true since Aibo was a family robot.

So personal robots are still being made.

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jibo-the-world-s-first-fa...