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While science-fiction continues to give robots a bad rap by portraying them as power-hungry overlords-in-waiting, tech companies continue to engineer humanoids that have a more altruistic goal: making our lives a little easier.

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Of all the game-changing innovators over the past century, the engineers who have eliminated the need to sweep and vacuum manually deserve special recognition for their ingenuity and, dare we say it, heroism.

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