This summer, I found myself in the strange position of watching a humanoid robot try to load laundry. It squatted beside a washer-dryer unit, reached with one hand into a laundry basket that it was holding with the other, and put some clothes into the drum.

A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Their arms are bent at the elbows, palms facing down. One pilot stops to pick up a bottle of hot sauce ...

Hot on the heels of LG's laundry-folding robot showcased at CES, Syncere has released a much more elegant home robot that marries a floor lamp to laundry-folding functions.

The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.

With Figure 03, we see images of a humanoid robot doing the dishes, serving drinks, or working at a hotel reception desk and our minds tend to fill in the gaps and assume the robot is acting like a human because it has full human capabilities and not something with its own special limitations, such as, theoretically, stopping dead if a glass isn't where it's supposed to be or handing a menu to thin air when a customer doesn't act as intended.