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Neo Gamma (Home Humanoid)
- NullPrefix 2y agoCan you .... uhmm.. use it for sexual pleasures?
- gloosx 2y agoOh, this monsieur knows a thing or two about perversion
- bromuro 2y agoReminds me the 1980 movie “Io e Caterina”, where the robot ends to control its owner: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0082567 https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0082567
- onnnon 2y agoPromo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVcBa6NXAbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVcBa6NXAbk
- BugsJustFindMe 2y agoThose people don't have any art on their walls except for in that one shot.
- throw310822 2y agoThe thing even sits on a couch, staring into the void, after doing all its chores. Seriously this stuff is unsettling at the deepest level. I already feel uneasy commanding an LLM at any time to do work for me. This human-shaped golem is dressed with a grey jumper that puts it exactly midway between a home appliance and a person. Will they sell more attractive clothes to dress them up a bit better? And then, will we end up asking them to check the mirror and tell us if they like them?
- BugsJustFindMe 2y agoFounded in 2014. Do they have any actual product that isn't purely aspirational yet? Can you buy this Neo Gamma? What were they doing in 2014?
- turnsout 2y agoWaiting around for AI to be good… Honestly, this thing does look super impressive. The movements are much faster and more fluid than the Figure humanoid. The 2030s are going to be nuts.
- onnnon 2y agoApparently, they are using the robot in employee homes: "We've been dogfooding NEO Gamma in 1X employee homes for weeks now, doing chores around the house. Under the suit, NEO Gamma has a lot of HW improvements that make it more reliable. The 1X AI team also pushed hard to get natural human-like walking, sitting, and bending down to pick things off the ground. My conviction that the humanoid form factor is the only viable shape for serving labor in a home has never been higher." - Eric Jang (AI at 1X) https://x.com/ericjang11/status/1893019683374436404 https://x.com/ericjang11/status/1893019683374436404
- uoaei 2y ago> the humanoid form factor is the only viable shape for serving labor in a home I have never heard a good argument for why this might be the case. Anyone care to chime in? I know that "built environment" and "ergonomics" exist but generally there is a lot of open space in a home that allows for a vast array of possible form factors.
- skeledrew 2y agoStairs and shelves.
- BugsJustFindMe 2y agoYou don't need to be humanoid for those. A robotic spider with claws would be just as capable.
- gmuslera 2y agoJust in time for the next season of Black Mirror.
- xnx 2y agoThe hardware is maybe 4% of robotics. 96% is the AI behind it.
- robotresearcher 2y agoI think you underestimate the hardware challenge. We don’t even have batteries that can power a humanoid for a conveniently long time. And the power to weight ratio of our actuators is enormously worse than humans and other animals. Moore’s Law does not help with these things.
- sockaddr 2y agoThis made me think.. I suspect someday AI will be able to just drop into a piece of commodity hardware and sort itself out and even compensate for shitty hardware a bit. For instance, if it can't control a hand properly, it'll just run evolutionary algorithm on it for a while, compile the result and upload it into the hand controller and be off in about 4-5s.
- alsodumb 2y ago1X is different. This is purely a hardware demo, they are doing pure teleop on the software side, no AI in the demo (except maybe RL for walking). 1X's bit thing was always their mechanically compliant safe hardware.
- xnx 2y agoAh. Thanks for explaining. Teleop is a smart starting point and is a great source of training data for future models.
- spondylosaurus 2y agoWhen you scroll down one pane (to the "Home Humanoid" section) you get a nice jumpscare of that thing's... face, ish. I would not enjoy waking up in the middle of the night for a glass of water and finding that thing staring at the foot of my bed.
- Bjorkbat 2y agoYeah, I have to admit it looks kind of "uncanny", but at the same time it kind of has a sense of personality to it that other humanoid robots lack, in part because it has face with two distinct eyes. The knit "suit" is also kind of a nice touch. Can't help but think that a robot wearing a sweater is kind of endearing.
- Tiktaalik 2y agoDo we have any sense that this is actually real and not a carefully crafted made up demo?
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]
- alsodumb 2y agoIt's teleop, they are pretty open about it. It's not autonomous. They do have an RL controller running for the legs, but it's just an intermediate controller and it probably get high level commands from a teleoperator. The upper body is purely teleop.
- jerezzprime 2y agoJust imagine how it's going to go- "Robot, please clean up the kitchen" - "You are number 27 in the queue, please wait"
- Judgmentality 2y agoSo you're paying someone to operate your robot on top of the cost of the robot? I'm very skeptical, even if this technology worked flawlessly, that this would scale towards a profitable business. I understand that not every robot would require 24x7 human assistance, but still - this is a very optimistic business model. Robotics has always been in competition with minimum wage labor. How long could you hire a maid before making a return on the cost of the robot? And that's assuming the robot isn't worse, which it is pretty much guaranteed to be.
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- noduerme 2y agoIn fact, they have openings for robot operators on their jobs page: https://www.1x.tech/open-positions/android-operator-mountain-view-ca-usa https://www.1x.tech/open-positions/android-operator-mountain...
- neilv 2y agoThe look is reminiscent of "The Black Hole" (1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw2y3faZhUk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw2y3faZhUk
- ein0p 2y agoCould we maybe stop showing robots vacuuming with a hand vacuum at this point? $200 robovacs have LIDARs now. Nobody is going to buy a $100K robot to do this.
- qingcharles 2y agoStaircase?
- ein0p 2y agoMost definitely an unsolved problem at this point, so no demos of that from anyone.
- krapp 2y agoOr lean into the boomer retro aesthetic and make them look like this[0]. [0]https://www.blackgate.com/2019/07/31/arok-the-robot/ https://www.blackgate.com/2019/07/31/arok-the-robot/
- sockaddr 2y agoIt's really telling how we're shaping our artificial helpers to not have a mouth, but eyes are alright. As if they're allowed to receive input but they should not bother us with any output! For me an ideal artificial helper would be something I could have in the house and talk back and forth with while it works or have it as part of the dinner conversation. Think Bicentennial Man. Now that's what I want.
- sheepscreek 2y agoHaving the physical attributes of a mouth would be analogous to having eyelids, which is also a feature they currently don’t have. They are very likely to have speakers and mics embedded somewhere in the body. Possibly in the face itself.
- dullcrisp 2y agoBut what would the teeth and the tongue be made out of?
- numpad0 2y agoCould be simple skill issue. Lots of uncanny valley problems are. ASIMO had a lip, GLaDOS (in 2) has oil stain where the lower lip would be. Considering the overall goofiness of the face of this particular bot, I think it could well be attributable to lack of talent or reluctance from positive supernormal stimulus.
- plagiarist 2y agoIs this some sort of ARG that will turn out to be an extended trailer for some killer robot sci-fi movie? Seriously creepy vibes, well done if intentional.
- nanomonkey 2y agoThis is all good and all, but where can I buy that knitted jumpsuit for myself.
- justlikereddit 2y agoA Chinese guy in a robot costume sold at loss to drive IPO valuation? Sign me up