Maltese professor: humanoid household chores "within a year"
From the Robots digest for Oct 25, 2026
What happened: Professor Saviour Formosa, of the University of Malta's Department of Criminology, told The Malta Independent on Sunday that humanoid robots could be doing chores in Maltese households "within a year" (The Malta Independent), published October 25, 2026.
What's genuinely new: A concrete one-year timeline for household humanoids, sourced to a criminology academic rather than any robot vendor or lab, with no named product, company, or pilot behind it. It lands in direct opposition to the household-skeptic voices of recent weeks — among them Mark Cuban's October 18 Roomba comparison — and is checkable on a clock: by October 2027.
Watch: whether any named vendor, machine, or pilot deployment appears in a Maltese household within the year, or whether the claim ages as pure forecast.
Sources The Malta Independent