Charlie Humphreys (R), director and founder of Verlet Robotics and a Yale University graduate based in Kigali, supervises an operator (L) using data-capture equipment at the Verlet Robotics office in Kigali on November 4, 2026. Verlet Robotics is a robotics and physical AI company that records and annotates human movements and tasks to create datasets used for training future robots to perform real-world work autonomously. (Photo by Sarah Gros / AFP via Getty Images)