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I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.
Publisher description: I’m not the sort of person who typically pays for a house cleaner. I’m too frugal, and I kind of enjoy putting on a podcast and going to town on my tub with a Magic Eraser. But when I saw an X post about a new humanoid-robot cleaning service in San Francisco, I immediately signed…
MIT Technology Review | Nov 6, 2026 | Grace Huckins
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The startup Tau Robotics is sending humanoid robots to clean San Francisco homes. As the robots clean, they collect data that Tau will use to train up their more independent descendants. But the robots are physically capable of cleaning, and they’re undeniably cute.
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