The original Roomba was the first robot vacuum in the US, and the second ever made, following Electrolux’s Trilobite the year prior. A basic bump-and-roll bot with bump and cliff sensors, the Roomba rolled randomly around your home, sucking up dirt, bumping from wall to wall, and generally trying not to fall down stairs.

There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human dancers to train virtual robots. “Robots move in the world,” Cousins says. “Who understands how to move in the world more innately than dancers and choreographers?”

The goal is to get the robots working with actual humans in areas such as manufacturing, facility operations and health care.

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Indian robotics firm, Milagrow, has introduced three new humanoid robots—Alpha Mini 25, Yanshee, and Robo Nano 2.0—with prices starting from Rs 4.89 lakh.

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Milagrow aims to position humanoid robots as companions, collaborators, and problem-solvers across homes, classrooms, research labs, and public spaces.

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, Mr. Brooks’s co-founder and C.E.O. at Robust.AI, which is building automated carts to work alongside humans in distribution centers.

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