There might not be a more ill-fitting movie title this year than Kinds of Kindness. Yorgos Lanthimos’ punishing anthology is a stylish exercise in cruelty, bringing the Greek filmmaker back to the feel-bad roots he had seemingly left behind with the success of The Favourite and Poor Things. But Kinds of Kindness shows that Lanthimos hadn’t so much left those misanthropic tendencies behind as much as he buried them deep down — until he was able to finally unleash them in all their savage and unpleasant glory.

A three-part anthology film shot during the long post-production process for Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness is a “triptych fable” featuring a small cast of stars — Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Hong Chau, Mamoudou Athie, and Joe Alwyn — as different characters enacting various forms of abuse on each other and on themselves.

For so long, the idea of humanoid robots held the promise of taking care of boring tasks and letting us focus on more important things. Yet here we are, without a robot that helps simplify our lives like Rosey the Robot from The Jetsons.

Still, the technology behind robots has been advancing rapidly as of late, leading to bots that have impressive dexterity or AI reasoning. Most of these robots aren’t available to customers yet, but they reignite the hope that we’re closer to robot butlers who can achieve the holy grail — doing our laundry. Here are eight of the most exciting humanoid robots that you could see in your future homes.