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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.
Many of us grew up watching The Jetson’s, and while the flying cars and talking appliances were pretty nifty, it was Rosie the Robot who really stole the show. The future has now arrived, and several ...
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 ...
HERB, the Home Exploring Robot Butler, is here to help. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Personal Robotics Lab created him to develop the technologies necessary to make Rosie the Robot a ...
Rock band Coheed and Cambria's drummer Josh Eppard shakes Robonaut 2's hand at NASA's Johnson Space Center In Houston, Texas - Sept. 17th, 2014 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted this photo of ...
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Robonaut 2 — or R2 for short — is now tweeting at www.twitter.com/AstroRobonaut. With the help of its team, the robot sent its first tweet on July 26. R2 will be ...