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If you're worried about humanoid robots taking your job in 2025, rest easy. The few commercially available models are slow, ponderous and best suited to menial jobs that humans hate — think lifting a 20-pound (9 kilograms) object onto a conveyor belt.

But things are set to change. By the end of this decade, many experts think humanoid robots will have evolved — if that's the right word — into genuinely useful members of the workforce. They will likely be faster than humans, work longer hours and have higher reasoning abilities than the best AI chatbots. Per year, they will also cost less.

If you're cynical about all this, you're right to be. Up until this point, companies have made many claims they've struggled to meet. What's more, only one humanoid robot in our seven-strong list is currently on active working duty.

Junco Chihira
Junco Chihira is a very realistic android robot created by Toshiba. Junco works full-time in a tourist information center in Tokyo. It is the successor of another Android Aiko Chihira who worked as a receptionist in a department store in Japan.