In 2025, the Jetsons fantasy of a robot butler stopped feeling like retro-sci fi kitsch and started looking—if you squint through a teleoperator’s VR headset—almost plausible. Meanwhile, investors ...

Humanoid home robots are being marketed as the missing link between smart speakers and science fiction, promising to load dishwashers, tidy living rooms, and maybe even keep you company. The price tag ...

Meet Sprout, the latest humanoid robot on the scene. about using Sprout as a kind of butler that brings items to guests in need. One of Fauna's first customers is Disney.

Welcome to the 21st century, where a request for extra towels in your hotel room may be answered by a roughly 4-foot-high purple robot on wheels. Miami YotelPad — an unfinished 30-story mixed-use ...

Reflex Robotics is building a general-purpose humanoid designed to automate warehouse and factory work. Rather than bipedal ...

Chris Stokel-Walker’s piece, “A very serious guide to buying a robot butler”, took me back to some research I carried out 12 years ago with some 80 pupils, who were about 12 years old, about their ...