The Balmacewen Intermediate 11-year-old says it is just plain boring and he is not very diligent about following his parents' orders to do the job each night. There had been warnings of "no dinner until the table is set''.
So rather than risk going hungry, he decided to find a way to make the chore more interesting - he built a robot to do it for him.
Its name is RATS - Robotic Automatic Table-Setter - and it can set the table, complete with knives and forks for up to four people, as well as put the salt and pepper shakers out.
"It has infrared in the back which responds to the remote, so I can control whether it sets the table for one, two, three or four people.
"All I have to do is put RATS on the edge of the table, push the button, and it does all the work for me.
"Life's much better for me now. Not so strenuous,'' he joked.
One could say the month of work it took to build the robot is not worth it. But Aaron disagrees.
His robot won the Best in Fair Aurora Premier Award at the Aurora Otago Science and Technology Fair at the weekend.
His project was one of 273 in the annual regional competition for primary, intermediate and secondary pupils.
"I was quite blown away. I wasn't expecting that. There were so many other great entries.''
And now he has had some success, he is planning to build robots to do his other chores, like sweep up leaves in the garden and fold his laundry.
"One that can clean my bedroom would be good.''
