Humanoid robots have officially arrived... sort of. Companies are wheeling out sleek, expensive prototypes with human-like limbs, while cooing PR departments promise a future where your home is co-managed by a machine that never gets tired or complains about doing the dishes and other chores .

But for now, most of these Android assistants are still glorified puppets, controlled in real-time by human operators. It's called teleoperation, and it's stirring up all sorts of discomfort.

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The robots are here

Neo the robot stands tall while folding the laundry. 1X

Take 1X's Neo, for example. Wrapped in fabric and moving with calculated caution, it looks the part. But the

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