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"You don't know if it's been speeded up, you don't know if there's a human behind-the-scenes, you don't know if they've kind of very carefully constructed the environment just right, so it works that time," Goldberg said.

Despite questions about the technology's current capabilities, both the promise and challenges of humanoid robotics remain evident. The long-term goal is a humanoid robot capable of cleaning an entire home at a low cost, potentially making home cleaning services more accessible.

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San Francisco company offers cleaning service using humanoid robots

A robotics startup is offering humanoid home cleaning services for $30 an hour.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco robotics startup has begun offering home cleaning services using humanoid robots, according to the company's CEO.

"Yeah, yesterday we made it public that we are starting to offer a cleaning service with humanoids in SF," said Alex Koch, CEO and co-founder of Tau Robotics.

The company is offering humanoid cleaning services for $30 an hour to selected applicants in San Francisco. Koch said the service is aimed in part at expanding access to home cleaning. "I think many of our initial customers are people who didn't have house cleaners, or are not that frequent house cleaners, human house cleaners, so it mainly just makes the market bigger," Koch said.

Koch said current artificial intelligence technology cannot fully control a humanoid robot on its own. Instead, he said, a person operates the robot from a central location with assistance from AI.

Videos provided by Tau Robotics show the humanoid robots performing cleaning tasks. One video, which was sped up, shows a robot exiting a minivan before a cleaning job.