Humanoid Robots Multiply In Residential Buildings

Adam Clark Estes reports that cleaning robots are proliferating in his urban apartment building, with elevator-enabled floor cleaners and planned window-cleaning drones. Barclays Research projects humanoid robotics could reach $200 billion by 2035, while the piece highlights cheap Chinese hardware and geopolitical risks—notably Taiwan's 90 percent share of advanced chip manufacturing—that could constrain embodied AI deployment.