Humanoid office robot shows how fast workplace automation is advancing

WIRED has profiled a humanoid robot designed to handle office-intern style tasks, from navigating workplace spaces to carrying out routine assignments. The demonstration shows how quickly robotics companies are pushing AI systems into physical work environments.

The important shift is not that a robot can replace an entire role today. It is that perception, planning and manipulation are improving enough for companies to test them in more ordinary settings.

For employers, the technology raises familiar automation questions in a new form: which tasks are repetitive enough to hand off, and which still require human judgment and social context.