Imagine a world where your morning coffee is brewed by a robot that remembers your exact preferences, your home is cleaned by a machine with human-like dexterity, and factories are staffed by tireless ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has bet his EV maker on selling millions of humanoid robots, prognosticating earlier this month that the initiative could eventually make up a whopping 80 percent of Tesla’s value.

What can a humanoid robot actually do in the real world? If you’ve seen videos online of the Boston Dynamics Atlas robot or Tesla’s Optimus bot, you might have assumed that these machines are just ...