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June 27, 2026

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Qualia wanted to show the future of robot labor. Instead, it showed the present of tech marketing: a human in an android costume doing dishes.

The company announced it was selected for Google DeepMind’s robotics program and posted a cinematic humanoid scrubbing plates like Rosie from The Jetsons was ready to take VC money.

Qualia has been selected for the @GoogleDeepMind Robotics Program.

We train embodied models that put a robot on a real manual task and make it work, on the floor, not in a demo.

Foundation models and reasoning are where robotics is heading, and doing that work alongside… pic.twitter.com/y8k53BBXFQ

— Qualia (@QualiaRobotics) June 9, 2026

But after viewers noticed the movement looked suspiciously human, founder Fabian Kerj clarified the humanoid was not real. Qualia builds training infrastructure, not robot bodies.

Credibility and water down the drain.

It’s convincing, check it out.