Do you have an Alexa at home? Would you like to have an even more functional home assistant? Then you should meet Neo Gamma, the innovative humanoid robot from 1X that promises to help you with household tasks.
The idea from the Norwegian company is that the humanoid robot will be able to perform basic household tasks, such as vacuuming the floor, watering plants, and moving items from one room to another.
It sounds pretty futuristic, doesn’t it? Well, according to the CEO of 1X, that future is not so far away. The company plans to place the robots in “several hundred” homes for testing later this year.
“We want to invite the first users this year to help us develop this system. We want it to live and learn among people, and for that, we need people to bring Neo into their homes and help us teach it to behave,” said Bernt Børnich to TechCrunch.
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However, he does not hide that large-scale commercialization of Neo Gamma is still far off. Although Neo Gamma uses AI to walk and maintain balance, the robot is currently not fully capable of autonomous movement.
To enable the tests, the Neo Gammas that will be going into homes soon will be equipped with cameras and sensors, and their limbs will be remotely controlled by teleoperators.
The company is a partner of AI giant OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and Nvidia. By using data collected during the tests and gaining a better understanding of how Neo Gamma behaves in domestic environments, the company will be able to train it to become more independent in the future.
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