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A $50,000 humanoid robot butler is now on sale

Designed to work safely and naturally around people, this $50,000 humanoid robot butler can deliver items like toothbrushes ...
Fauna, a new startup, is betting that humanoid robots will find success as hospitality workers, research assistants, and ...
Liam Thompson builds his own robot butler and quickly realizes robots don’t understand sarcasm.
NEW YORK -- As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers ...
The debut of the robot butler NEO has drawn widespread ridicule. Unable to perform many chores without a remote human operator, the machine has become a target of social media backlash. Videos ...
PET owners worried about their animal’s loneliness while they’re at work might be thrilled to learn of a creative – and ...
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 ...
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ENGINEAI Robotics Technology, a developer of embodied intelligence systems, showcased two flagship products at CES 2026. These included the PM01, a lightweight ...
As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand ...