What do robots mean for the future of work and humanity? While much of the public imagination is captured by the images of anthropomorphic and increasingly more capable robots, the situated accounts of robots at work reveal a radically different picture. Drawing on post phenomenological theory and ethnographies of robots in surgery, hospitality, and elderly care, I trace how, instead of automation, robots result in subtle reconfigurations of work, that change how bodies move, practices are performed, and values are enacted. I argue that following “robots in the wild” and suspending theoretical assumptions of separation between humans and technology allows us to appreciate how robots become a domesticated part of the ongoing flow of practice. The reality of contemporary workplaces is thus the one where robots are less glamorous, but paradoxically no less consequential, as the ways in which work gets reconfigured remain unnoticed and unaccounted for.