I Lived With a Humanoid Robot for 48 Hours

In last week's S3 1X shared their plans to quickly deploy Neo, their new robot, in homes. So I asked if they'd put Neo in my home.
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[@fwang3695]

“we are going to deploy a humanoid robot to your home" next day: 10 engineers deployed into your home

[@jmg9509]

Lmaooo

[@poetac15]

I’m the dishwashing specialist operator. When my shift is over I train to be the laundry operator. Then I go home and do my laundry and dishes.

[@RedRyan]

​@@poetac15see. Robots aren't going to take all of our jobs they're just going to make us do them hundreds of times but with their bodies

[@c016smith52]

We said "going to" :P

[@g_pazzini]

and it’s still controlled remotely by those engineer 😂😂😂

[@jmg9509]

Kinda weird how the engineers told you to stay in that room whilst the robot ‘made’ the coffee. And it only showed the robot pouring the water, which we didn’t see it pick up in the first place.... just to have the engineer then hand you the finished cup of coffee and insist that the robot made it, even though we didn’t fully get to see it being made...

[@JJs_playground]

Ya, I thought the same thing. Why did they do that?

[@MasterVycen]

At least one reason was probably the boiling hot water

[@tactfullwolf7134]

It was a safety issue. They can't afford to have a liability like that before actual deployment.

[@Techtalk2030]

It’s probably not as advanced as theyre trying to portray it. Hopefully it gets there in the next few years

[@canofpulp]

It's pretty obvious the robot can't actually make coffee yet

[@EmergentStardust]

I can't wait to have a robot grow me an epic permaculture garden.

[@poetac15]

Bonsai specialist trimmer bot.

[@offgridmatt]

I’d like one that can pull scotch broom off my land😂

[@judithsixkiller5586]

The Beomni Multi purpose Robot has a program platform for office,nursing and home assistance, and has already been signed up for a record breaking purchase order contract of 1,000 units with an option for 10,000 more within 5 year's. The first order is designated to operate and maintain agricultural growth enclosures. So watch for a product performance review. Your dream is definitely possible.

[@SinergiaAlUnisono]

"I know Kung Fu" ... multi modules ..., whatever comes to mind , or what humans can do so will robots any time soon , so... :-b weeeee , already taking a nap in my hammock They can even self prompt , self reflect ... self correct ... , self simulate scenarios of success and failure ... , we are to become mere "watchers"... almost unneeded already ...

[@idehenebenezer]

​@@poetac15 Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless. Revelation 22:12-14 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

[@sow_hard]

6:23 Aha the classic middle finger, lol. My man Neo is one slang away from turning into Chappie

[@haasii]

Jason was close to cracking up there lol

[@Forinja]

Neo had to slip in something, can't let him just shit talk freely xD

[@joeb3129]

Nice to see someone else spotted this

[@fireresq7]

LMAO I stopped the video to look for a comment like this!

[@idehenebenezer]

​@@haasii Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless. Revelation 22:12-14 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

[@CalamityStarForce]

Seeing Neo prove the egg is not hard boiled by throwing it on the counter is like asking it to prove it fed the cat and then watching it gut the cat.

[@yannisgk]

lol

[@AdaminChina666]

LMAO

[@djcardwell]

as a philosophy major, this is hilarious hahahahaha.

[@flowstateeng]

perfect lol

[@jupreindeer]

"Neo. Can you tell me if my child is hard boiled?" *Picks up the innocent baby and drops him/her.* *Loud cracking, crying and ambulance sirens follow* ... .. . Erm... yea. Alas, I do have faith that in enough years, a far improved android will be doing back flips, full safety pick ups and protecting your child 24/7 from anything the world can threaten your child with using 100% prediction algorithms and safety measures beyond belief. Year one... is going to be very scary.

[@mihirvd01]

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!!!

[@stickynorth]

And Moon Pies? My stars!

[@NimoClancy]

Glad we held onto our papers

[@s3_build]

based.

[@635574]

Said the robot while holding onto papers

[@magnusandersson5818]

It is impossible to read it without a certain accent.😁

[@domenicperito4635]

he said its teleoperated. all i picture is south park cartmen being a robot. some guy just stuck pretending to be a robot all day.

[@stickynorth]

Or people earning less than a dollar an hour in SE Asia doing all the work basically via robots in areas where the minimum wage is like $15/hour... That's probably the saddest and most accurate use-case for teleoperate robots... Like Ready Player One but even more SUS...

[@kairi4640]

Yeah, that diminished the appeal. But same time it makes sense that the ai wouldn't be able to do all this by itself initially. Hopefully won't take too long to ween it off to fully autonomous.

[@domenicperito4635]

@@stickynorth This sounds actually terrible....so on top of getting paid 1$ an hour they also record everything you do so they can slowly replace you with a piece of software. Imagine what kind of person will willingly do this.....or worse...what if they are 3rd world country slaves.

[@domenicperito4635]

@@kairi4640 I honestly wouldn't expect that if they did proper simulations and training in simulated homes pre-release.

[@user-on6uf6om7s]

@@domenicperito4635 I imagine it's hard to deploy them at scale to get that training data without any revenue. Seems like giving them a lot of unique new simulation environments is likely subsidizing part of the cost.

[@aaronorelup4024]

2:12 Guy: Walks out of room, gets handed a cup of coffee **unimpressed** Engineer: "Neo Made it" Guy: **Dumbfounded**

[@Illuminati_HD]

4:55 i thought he was gonna do the spin trick but then he just threw it 🤣

[@FoxtrotYouniform]

I would have fist pumped if it said "you just cooked one of them"

[@c016smith52]

this cracked me up 🥚

[@asandax6]

​@@c016smith52 eggselent reply.

[@idehenebenezer]

​@@c016smith52 Jesus loves you. Repent and turn away from your sins today 🤗

[@Allplussomeminus]

I wish this was raw and uncut... To much heavy editing for it to really hit home.

[@CapitanNaufrago]

red flag for sure

[@salvationindustries]

The teleoperation is the scariest factor here. Who is going to teleoperate? You are essentially putting a stranger into your home. It's not only about privacy and see you in your most private moments but even if the robot is not stronger than you it can still poison you.

[@jackieclan815]

Right!

[@ThomasTomiczek]

It is the most irrelevant part. See, the reason that they do that is for training, and that is also the reason they do a limited beta. Concerned? Do not even participate. Once this is sold, there should hardly ever be a need to use teleoperation. And even then, most scenarios are not where you care about privacy.

[@ronilevarez901]

One of the use cases for me is as a nurse to help me take care of my mom. So letting a tele-operator into my house is pretty much the same as letting a human nurse in. Both will have a verifiable identify and some level of certification and references. Not big deal. (Note for 1x: get the operators those papers and show them to the beta testers). There's always something to sacrifice towards progress. As long as it's reasonable I'm fine with it.

[@liminalsunset]

As we all know, administrative controls like "certifications" and "KYC" are useless. That is what they said about Tesla cameras (internal sharing of private customer data for random purposes) and App Store Review (hired technologically challenged people) and look what ended up happening. When you think of AI data labelling, you should think of the lowest bidder hiring someone to make the product look like it is working from a call center. Unfortunately there is no way around this but I think if the user has to explicitly approve the remote connection, it's not a huge problem.

[@gabrieldarcy9067]

They said they want to get rid of teleoperation by next year. They're just doing it to train the neural network whilst in the prototype stage

[@HmFood4Thought]

"can you prove that those eggs aren't hard boiled" --> alignment problem.

[@idehenebenezer]

Colossians 3. 1. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2. Set your affection on the things which are above and not on things which are on the earth. 3. For ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4. When Christ, which is our life shall appear, so shall ye also appear with him in Glory. ******** Jesus is calling you today. Come to him, repent from your sins, bear his cross and live the victorious life ********

[@michelleelsom6827]

The dark side of AI

[@Art-AI-and-beyond]

This is by far the most interesting approach to the adoption of humanoid robots. I'd much rather see this than watching them move boxes around in a factory.

[@DrawinskyMoon]

I don’t like its eyes

[@Art-AI-and-beyond]

@@DrawinskyMoon Agreed. why do so many of them opt for the faceless visor thing. It has that unsettling dystopian sci-fi vibe. I'm never going to convince my wife to let one in my house if it looks like that.

[@MadFlumph]

It's a different path to the same goal. The reason other companies are putting their robots in factories is for training. The reason these guys want to put Neo in your home is also for training. Their advantage right now is making a robot that's "safe" enough to be put in someone's home right away so that they can get a leg up on their competition in amassing real world home training data.

[@Art-AI-and-beyond]

@@MadFlumph Yup I realise its all about gathering as much real world data as possible in order to generalise but I kind of agree with the Neo team that putting them in the home first is going to get there faster. A factory environment seams rather constrained and specialised in performing very specific tasks in a repetitive manner whereas in the home they will be exposed to a bigger variety of unique tasks and be far more interactive with people rather than just be left to get on with things. Also with many people training them up in many different homes and situations just adds to the richness of data.

[@sda8jsdj9k121]

It's early days fucking christ😂relax

[@moonbeam54321]

"Neo, can you prove that those childrens heads aren't hard boiled"

[@terrybarrett8873]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😂😂😂😂😂

[@KishanChander_]

goosebumps. the way it interacts with fist bumps, rock paper scissor, highfives, dude... also while opening the fridge, it pulled the door a second time. oh man, im so excited. i love their concept of first home then industries. like a human, you go to school -> learn to make friendships & interactions, college -> work knowlege, then jobs. dude i think, i dont know ive never thought of this approach. its so brilliant imo. so excited. i just cant stop talking about this.

[@user-on6uf6om7s]

Important to note that the reason it does all those things is because it's being piloted by a human so you're basically just getting a human maid with a less capable body but I guess if the person is from a developing country and you don't have to pay US/European minimum wage, it could be a net benefit vs an in-person human maid.

[@flyingmelon21]

Same

[@KishanChander_]

@@user-on6uf6om7s ofc the same thing is followed in waymo as well. these remote guys take charge when the system messes up. but remember, even doing this will get into the dataset used to train the bot, so eventually during the 2nd or 3rd time doing a similar task, the bot itself will do that particular task on its own without human intervention

[@djcardwell]

don't let that fool you. magic tricks are fun but stay grounded.

[@fedyx1544]

@@user-on6uf6om7s let's assume they aren't actually able to pivot to full AI bot in one year, which is definitely what I expect to happen. Let's also imagine that they have to stick to using people from third world countries to do this. How long do you think it's gonna take until some buyer starts trolling the operator, being racist etc until one of the operators flips and attacks him or his house? Watch these things get recalled after a few months.

[@elyakimlev]

I don't understand the hype. This is teleoperated and clearly isn't autonomous. They won't be selling those next year because they are useless. In my opinion, we won't have robots at home until people figure out how to give robots sense of touch and dense pressure points around the whole body, not just hands. This is necessary for safety. If the robot can feel 'pain', and is trained to avoid it, it can know what might cause you pain and be careful around you. In other words: empathy.

[@rampagephoenix1735]

The reason why it's a big deal is because, apparently, the technology is getting alot closer to achieving that than you realize. See, me personally, I like to think that they wouldn't be pushing any excitement around any kind of tech unless they were serious about having already proven they can address any issues that hinder it's potential. Humanoid robots, electric cars, flying vehicles.......the way I see it, if A LOT of money and innovation is involved, then you can bet that any brag worthy credentials could very well be legit.

[@cnrspiller3549]

​@@rampagephoenix1735 dunno. If startups are desperate for more investors, they'll hype anything... likely or farfetched. I was disappointed when they snuck in the reality that Neo is basically a remote controlled animatronic biped. As impressive as it is, it is no electric butler.

[@rampagephoenix1735]

@@cnrspiller3549 Time will tell, essentially. If history is anything to go by, in terms of technology, progress, and innovation, then I remain hopeful.

[@elyakimlev]

@@rampagephoenix1735 Man, you should read about Theranos. Just because people throw their money at something, doesn't mean it's legit. Sometimes, people are just easily fooled, even smart ones with deep pockets.

[@FrankHerfjord]

more like tele-programmed

[@muwaffaqsalti6351]

It is so interesting to see people's comments and disappointments. The point of all these advancing technologies are iteration and improvement. As soon as they have a model in homes the improvement will be very fast given the amount of data and learning they can do. The future looks incredible in many ways and we are living in an era of science fiction

[@64jcl]

Many people are obviously very cautious what to believe as something like this is so easily faked by tele-operation (and indeed what Tesla did when they demonstrated their robot). They would need to show more that makes it more believable but obviously a company like this needs to hold their cards close since competition is a thing. I also think many know the "hype pump" that many tech companies do to make investors interested, and not actually being able to deliver (again like Tesla for the last 8 years they were supposed to be delivering self-driving cars). Then there is the obvious trust in the companies not snooping on people in their own homes somehow. This will require some extra level of security where owners can be sure that the robot is not actively sending information out that it should not, especially one that is moving about in your home and can see everything. If they manage this and somehow have the ability to make the robot learn through practice, I am sure many would find that useful for many things, even if it works slowly.

[@NyeMechworks]

If companies keep lying like this, they won't get enough money to ever get to that point (see Megabots).

[@TheKdcool]

from this episode I can really tell that there will be a convergence of VR headset and humanoids... at least for a while, businesses will solve their labor shortage by going hiring teleoperators. And if latency is good enough they could even hire them from across the globe to work at night while it's daytime in their country 🤯

[@jmg9509]

Costs will have to reduce drastically whilst performance also has to increase drastically. There needs to be an inverse relationship between costs and performance.

[@mr.griffe9202]

Basically the movie surrogates

[@Danuxsy]

this is bad, all workers will be from the third world living on a dollar a day and you won't be able to get a job because there won't be any or the salary will be low as it is competing with the third world lol

[@fizzypizzel6477]

2:47 The little random wave is so cute

[@ChristophBackhaus]

probably a remote human that could not help himself.

[@christianauswien]

It's not random. He's programmed to wave each time a person says 'like right now'. They explain in the other video.

[@CatchGravity]

"The Robot made it" - dude hands over coffee cup while robot watches 😅

[@PostClarity7]

Dude poured the coffee too

[@EchoYoutube]

The hardboiled egg part killed me, and Idk why.

[@sampan04]

I can see this being awesome for elderly or people who need a caretaker to help them live.

[@CapitanNaufrago]

just visit your parents dude

[@sampan04]

@@CapitanNaufrago ???? I think you have missed the point here, some people don't have family to rely on whom require care.

[@FoxtrotYouniform]

6:22 ah, yes, everyone knows that 'bird' beats 'scissors'

[@MycoDogs]

bro literally used black mirror in his sales pitch

[@johannesdolch]

EDIT: THIS WAS TELE-OPERATED? I am sorry, but this company is now giving me serious Nikola vibes. Here is what they actually showed: They built a prototype robot of unknown costs, unknown actual capabilities (because it moves super slow and awkward it's unclear if it a software or design problem or most likely both) and production numbers measured in low double digits per month. That's it. They have shown ZERO evidence that they can actually meet ANY of their grandiose claims. They have ZERO track record of mass production, supply chain management or software development. IT'S ALL TALK! Why am i upset about this? Because that's not how they make it sound. And this demo is clearly fake as i said in the other comment. But even i didn't realize how fake it is. Are you kidding me! Neo can't even do the tasks that are shown here in the clumsy way it does? And that's your Tesla Bot Competitor? That's a JOKE - PURE HOPIUM and possibly a scam. I still hope they succeed, but dude, their actual accomplishments are in no relation to the hype.

[@isaiahphillip4112]

Seems like NVIDIA has best approach with mass simulation training. Teleoperation data will always be limited by the human-robot interface which has an inherent input lag and forces the human to work slowly and awkwardly.

[@spray_cheese]

Yea he even said himself that tele-operation will be essential on day 1. And you could consider this day 0. Meaning it’s nearly 100% human controlled. No AI besides the chat bot tts.

[@valuemastery]

Even if it ended up in a local maximum (or minimum error), it likely will end up somewhere else on the next training run that was initialized with random weights. And I believe an LLM will not be enough, since the robot does not just generate text. It generates behaviour. So it should be a more general transformer network.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

From what I know the core code for tesla bots is based on the code for the Tesla cars (with self drive) and that is NOT an LLM for sure.

[@hidroman1993]

Everything is 5-10 years away

[@kairi4640]

Nice, 1X already attempting to fulfill their mission of putting robots in people's homes. 3:53 omg it talks! I didn't expect that! 😮 So it's being teleoperated by a human right now? 😅 Oh well, that makes more sense tbh.

[@DangMinhQuanSpeedcuber]

No. It's GPT 4o. And also, for all those stupid ahh comments, it will be teleoperated for the FIRST day at the home.

[@JJs_playground]

We're getting so close to the iRobot future.

[@MoldyMan.]

hear me out that robot kinda fi-

[@dvrs-e6t]

Very useful for disabled/handicapped people. Could be the start of something great. Good luck.

[@sharonstrauss1146]

We can also ask another person to do or help.😢

[@Queenweezy]

So who’s been helping them for all this time???

[@123owly]

Bringing up Black Mirror was BOLD.

[@IsaiahsAnythingShow]

yeah caught me off guard theyre taking inspriation from the show , not really sure how i feel about that

[@tiagotiagot]

If it's not self-contained and fully air-gapped, it's a safety issue; you're essentially letting anyone with tech knowledge and malicious intent to get into your house and do whatever they want; and that includes access to your valuables, sharp items, flammables, "cleaning" products, stored food, keys etc. And things like recognizing individual voices, and enough intelligence to not follow harmful/criminal/scammy orders in case someone synthesizes the owner voices and projects thru a window or calling in etc, would also be essential to avoid jailbreaking and in-person vulnerabilities.

[@bobason456]

Like an internet router?

[@tiagotiagot]

@@bobason456 That would be one example of a potential exploitable entry point. A GSM modem (like a built-in cell phone) would be another. Non-internet wireless connections like bluetooth would also be a risk, though require more proximity from the attacker (someone that may have a truck van on the outside ready to be auto-loaded with your valuables for example). Pretty much any form of data connection is a problem. Call and the other droids in her group in Alien Ressurection had the right idea when they burned their own wireless modems; there is no such thing as an unhackable computer, but it gets much harder to do anything if you need physical access.

[@r9999t]

Agreed, that is necessary, but if the programming is malicious (or gets hacked), even if air-gapped it can (literally) phone home. At that point it can send any information and be given any command that can be relayed as speech. So it's pretty much just as dangerous as it would be if fully internet connected. Also if you ever connect it to your wifi or Bluetooth, it can send any data (including images) and receive back any sort of commands. It's not like having The Jetsons Rosie in your house, it's like having a latent stalker, thief or much worse in your house.

[@tiagotiagot]

@@r9999t Jailbreaking or factory-backdoors/trojans in the model itself are indeed another vulnerability. In general, jailbreaking could be taken care of with sufficient intelligence to figure when a voice that sounds like the owner is asking for something that would be against the best interest of the owner (and that obviously depends also on reliable speaker recognition). The only way to avoid a manufactured sleeper agent situation would be with replaceable AI models and open-source and unlocked firmware and such that would let you ensure it won't be factory-reset automatically after you flashed a known safe model and firmware, and stuff like that.

[@wolfbite1984]

Wow we really made it to this point in history

[@HeirtotheGrandDuke]

PERSPECTIVE: We have the rare opportunity of watching an amazing product in its embryonic stage. Of course there are engineers in the house to telleo operate and teach the robot how to function in someone's home. It's like someone bringing a newborn home from the hospital and people are complaining that it doesn't walk and talk yet. Get over yourselves.

[@Christian-w8q]

Seriously. People I guess just don't understand how technology or AI/ML works. Iteration literally makes each succession better than the last. This is why computers and smart phones have advanced so quickly. No different than AI - they just first need actual training data to train the models on what to do. In 5-10 years they will advance at an unbelievable rate. I'm extremely excited to see the future potential of these technologies!

[@NyeMechworks]

If companies keep misrepresenting their products like this, they won't ever get enough money to ever get to their end goal (see Megabots).

[@marcmanalli]

Robot breaks down and I have to make my own coffee?! Now I have to wait for the repair robot to come to my apartment between the hours of 9:00am to 4:30pm. Welcome to dystopia. 😂

[@x_ph1l]

Actually, it's super interesting idea to use fabric to cover the robot's joints and other places. Looks kinda neat.

[@myrakrusemark6873]

I can see its slightly smaller too than a regular body. With some padding it would be quite a human shape, maybe even wear some regular clothes. As weird as that may seem.

[@midloran]

@@myrakrusemark6873 Nothing weird about that! it's the exact thing why we have phone cases with different styles, what I am trying to say is that the robot is human-shaped, that's why he would wear human clothing, imagine how fun it would be to give robot a maiden clothes, gosh that would be so cute lol

[@michelleelsom6827]

Yes, & maybe a waterproof cover for when the robots outside gardening to stop the soil getting into thd joints.

[@arxmechanica-robotics]

It's really great to see the level of advancements made with tendon driven robotics and AI. They defied the odds and industry standards.

[@davidcampos8952]

At 4:21 you can hear a little like soft click after he’s done talking, which is what ChatGPT advanced voice does 😮

[@hidroman1993]

Feels like Amazon's 'just walk out' tech: years will pass with 24/7 Indian teleoperation

[@SpicyMelonYT]

The absolute only think I would NEED them to do in my opinion if they are going to release this is to make it run fully local. No sending footage or data to a server to process. When they said they can collect a lot of data in the home I am all for that as long as its consensual and that the user gets to opt in and out at any point.

[@SpicyMelonYT]

When the GPT 4o voice model was talking it felt like an AI watching and talking though another AI. I mean that is literally what was happening but it just felt so weird and funny.

[@Kiki-de7mr]

Amazing how quickly this all developed! Thank you so much for sharing these videos with us.💓 So many videos of these robots are just a few seconds or minutes long, without any actual information. So this is such a cool channel for when you are actually interested in this kinda stuff.

[@LemonadeMouthSomebod]

"He'll pay rent." Crap he's already better than me!

[@larshart9576]

so basically what i gathered from this is that there’s a human operator and there will be a human operator, not very great for my privacy nor the average consumer. very strange and a big thing to say so casually

[@ollyfoxcam]

There’s a long way to go but we shouldn’t underestimate the speed at which sufficient progress could be achieved.

[@intuitive_understanding]

People are hating on the tele-operation, but even that alone would be amazing for the elderly or disabled. Providing the ability to “beam” someone into a home to help someone with discrete tasks would be incredible for many folks who need temporary assistance.

[@azhuransmx126]

This is the GPT1 of Robots. When we reach GPT3-4 Level in 2026 thanks to the Thor and B200 the things will going turn crazy pretty fast🤪 An then the 10 engineers will be not included with the robot😊

[@Danuxsy]

you are delusional and suffer from mental decline, if anything I would not be surprised if we saw teleoperated robots being rented and they are controlled by third world workers making pennies, that is far more likely to happen than having a fully automated robot in the forseeable future. Imagine for $20/month you can have a teleoperated robot cooking your dinner everyday and cleaning up afterwards, that would be a booming product and it would not surprise me that this is the way they are trying to go.

[@s_kokkalis]

It’s not ready yet. Don’t rush it. Make sure it works really well before selling.

[@deondrex18k]

They're trying but glad they're testing it in a real home

[@kairi4640]

Course, that's the whole point of them teleoperating them initially and going small for 2025, then gradually increasing distribution. I'm just glad we're finally seeing something after all these years.

[@Danuxsy]

@@kairi4640 2025? these robots won't be able to be automated in many many years if not decades.

[@tristanwegner]

you can prove a egg is not hard boiled yet, by spinning it without it breaking. The liquid core makes it spin less, than a hard boiled egg. But most humans would also not do that. Nice video. The year will come, where we watch tech youtubers do a robot comparison review.

[@stickynorth]

I want to see a TV series where various Robots face off in task after task like a true Robot Olympics... Of course there's still that FIFA Soccer challenge someone threw down about fielding an all humanoid team vs an all human one. I still am dying to see that!

[@Asdosie]

I dont believe alot of what I see here, What I picked up on is the "human tele-operation" I.E a human controls the robot, No AI. I would ABSOLUTELY not want a complete stranger(s) + their coworkers being in my house, seeing what it sees, hears what it hears and so on. Unsure which human is controlling it etc, Sounds AWFUL... Very cool tech, but I think alot of this was under "ideal" cicumstances. Their time estimates seem insanely quick, I dont know.

[@mandoy2080]

I'm sensing a repeat of the Method robot in 2016

[@jhunt5578]

I’ve heard Bernt talk about the teleoperation strategy before, but in the context of businesses hiring a bot. That makes more sense to me because you can make money out of the robot whilst training it. Having a Neo in homes being teleoperated constantly must be expensive. The strategy also reminds me of Tesla autonomy, they capture data from customers driving. But they needed billions of miles to get to where they are now. The data set required end to end for home robotics will be massive. I would be shocked if after a year the Neo bots were reliably working in homes off of AI alone.

[@blissweb]

Screw Boston Dynamics and their military bots. This is where the killer apps are. Loading/unloading the dumb dishwasher, doing the laundry with your existing machines, ironing, opening jars, cooking and making coffee, reaching high places. This is what the people want. ❤ early days ... but still, massively right direction.

[@Silas2-p7c]

We’re not there in terms of intelligence, but the hardware is getting warmer. Maybe it’s like the computer industry, you buy a laptop and install your OS of choice.

[@Techtalk2030]

The hardware seems to be mostly there. The AI is the main issue now it seems like

[@ronilevarez901]

And you void the warranty. To truly own a robot and be able to mess with it, we need more open source robots and those that already exist to get more popular and better.

[@MadFlumph]

@@Techtalk2030 Not even so much the AI as it is the training data. It's the same with all of the other humanoid robots different companies are making, they need the robots out there doing things/being teleoperated in order to amass the training data they need to make it all work. In the same way LLMs are fed unimaginable amounts of (text, video, etc) data in training, these robots need physical data.

[@Techtalk2030]

@@MadFlumph then youd think they would put more robots in places of work and homes to gather that data

[@jimj2683]

I am most excited for billions of robot scientists trying to cure all diseases and reverse human aging.

[@macemoneta]

If you have to fill the pot with water, boil the water, put the coffee and filter in the carafe, and pour it yourself, then clean it up, the robot didn't make the coffee. The hype is excessive. "A remote, human, operator". If that's the case, it should be much better.

[@timlogy]

I understand that this was communicated by Eric as a master plan, but I think it should also be made clear that in this demo at home the robot was also controlled remotely at all times ;)

[@JustGoAndFly]

Great, now we'll have to compete with robots in the rental market...

[@stickynorth]

Yup! McJob's will become McRobot tasks soon enough... Good bye service workers!

[@deltaechomusicnh555]

You won't be competing. You will be replaced.

[@Victor-oy8bj]

i cant wait til i see clips of the robot on the floor and being like "oops, i miscaulcated my steps and feel down the stairs" hahah

[@BrianPeiris]

If you want to build trust with people, step zero is telling them upfront that the robot is teleoperated, not 5 minutes into the video. S3 and/or 1X should have been transparent about this immediately.

[@AurenGlytterkat]

This was EXACTLY my thought, and I’m surprised it hasn’t been brought up more in the comments… 😒

[@tetsuoshima2314]

Right? I was like wait, what? How did they really just gloss over that?

[@Danuxsy]

a lot of robot companies does this. If they were honest they would put a label "TELEOPERATED" on each video where the robot is well...teleoperated.

[@Bippy55]

S3 RULES!! This is probably the most comprehensive and courageous project ever conceived by a state of the Art robotics company. And it makes folks take notice of so many actions we do in our homes, we simply take for granted! Keep going! More power to the S3 team!!

[@pavelmarchev1468]

6:26 the middle finger :D

[@MrRandomPlays_1987]

To solve the hacking issue they should make their robot simply offline most of the time by user control so only when it needs to be updated for a brief time it would have to be online but else it would stay offline and thus would 1) eliminate the privacy issue 2) no hacker would be able to hack it if its offline 3) people would be certain that it is not teleoperated by anyone from the company

[@Metal_IK]

I can't wait for the waifu maid version !

[@Jimmy1234gaming]

Me: "THE ROBOT UPRISING IS HERE!!!" Tech Enthusiasts: "Dude, calm down. This is pretty normal now."

[@goodandzloi]

Good but never good enough.😂😂😂

[@ronilevarez901]

Most humans aren't very good at most activities except a few they've trained for a long time.

[@Animeabe]

I could see it grow by each robot recording everything, compiling the data centrally and redributung the learned actions back across all the robots each day. Like 10 shadow clones learning, then 100, then 1000. Serious privacy issue but still interesting.

[@brunoB1980]

This is it - how the future looks like.

[@MrErick1160]

The hand draging the pack closer was actually impressive!

[@ortana-v2]

This is definitely my favourite video from S3 so far.. I loved it!

[@davidallyn1818]

omg thanks for documenting and sharing the birth of what we'll regard as common place as our fridge. I can't wait to see the next iterations!!! Keep going the world need you! These are great vids! OPINION: From a purely marketing perspective, I think that 1X should work on making Neo really good at one general task - like cleaning the house. This puts Neo in a class outside of roomba's reach. "Neo, it's laundry day! I need my t-shirts and jeans cleaned. Also, I'm thinking of having some friends over tonight, could you pick up the house today too?" Then, while you're at work, Neo would put the clothes in the washer, transfer them to the dryer, fold, and put away. While the washer/dryer are running, it would know to use that time to put cups and dishes in the dishwasher, toys in the toy chest, etc... Then you'd come home to a clean home - ditch the roomba cause... why? In other words, generalization makes Neo a really great Elexa (which people may not buy at rates he's thinking), but specificity makes Neo a productivity tool and probably much more valuable to a customer -- then I could see 100K units being sold. Also, I do agree with others that Neo needs to be fully local - no transmitting data. This makes Neo "mine" and not "yours". Plus all the benefits of not getting hacked. And, it allows me to train Neo on-site ... for example, "Good try Neo, but let me show you another way to prove an egg is not boiled."

[@filmweaver2013]

There is no exaggeration in saying that this is monumental! The little things like, it understanding hand gestures to do things is beautiful! The mechanical design is amazing, and love how they are not trying to give pure tech demos like, "our robot can now walk", rather actually showing the first steps of real problems being solved. Amazing company, led by great actual engineers. You succeeded in creating a robot that people will love to interact with, great job!

[@PLMinecraft1000]

It understands the hand gestures because it's being teleoperated by a human, no AI in sight.

[@fedyx1544]

it's not self operating so it's just a worse version of its competitors

[@Holographic_Meatloaf252]

can't wait to wake up seeing this thing watching me sleep

[@logan594]

I need a robot to do landscaping in my backyard. Not walk slowly and pick up an egg.

[@Danuxsy]

people still have backyards? damn

[@earth_safari]

Why are robot's wrists blured

[@cooleregg5577]

their genitalia is located there

[@aminebarnat6528]

To hide their technology. Same reason it has clothes on.

[@JustinHalford]

Proprietary tech

[@ClankCrunchYeoucher]

YES!! WE'RE SO CLOSE TO HAVING CUTE MAID ROBOTS IN OUR HOMES, BROTHERS!!! *I CRAVE THE STRENGTH AND CERTAINTY OF STEEL.*

[@stickynorth]

The Future isn't "The Future" to me until we have flying cars, skyscraper apartments for the masses and most importantly ROBOTS! As a fan of The Jetsons then and now it's very cool to see most of these fields move forward in the last 10 years by leaps and bounds. I can only imagine what life will be like in 10 years from now!

[@deondrex18k]

Flying car are more dangerous than you think imagine people that can't drive using those 😮 wat we really need are cars that don't run on gas

[@jmg9509]

Flying cars would probably be operated by Ai instead of a driver for the most part, similar to how Tesla is trying to make self driving cars. It’s the safest and only practical way I can see flying cars being widely adopted. I’m sure people will still need a license to fly in case of any emergency that they might need to takeover. Who knows... time will tell.

[@YogurtGaming2]

We don't really need flying cars, no reason to have them other than being cool. they already exist but, they're expensive to make, they're not really efficient in any way, as the way roads work nowadays is much more efficient than if we had flying cars, they would be really loud, and what if someone crashed into a... building, another thing is, we already kind of have what we need, take note helicopters, airplanes, etc. flying cars aren't really that efficient so thats why they haven't been implemented into our society.

[@ronilevarez901]

I agree with robots. Flying cars would be cool but we don't need them. And they had skyscraper apartments for everyone because they can't live in the ground anymore due to overpopulation and/or pollution. I rather live in a small building than having that part of the future. Even better, in a house with a garden 🏡

[@fedyx1544]

flying cars are and always will be a trash idea, skyscraper apartments for the masses can never be achieved with the current economic system, robots the only realistic thing but still a few years if not decades away

[@markmuller7962]

The egg throwing cracked me lol

[@andrewfriedman2485]

This is absurd... so basically this company is attempting to outsource domestic servantry with the promise that they will solve AGI. And who is going to operate these robots remotely? People from China and Mexico?

[@zSion]

Probably India lmao.

[@Johanneslol11]

Yeah this is it. This is what I expected, when I look at it it just not make sense. It is just a robot being remotely controlled. The ones from the bigger ones are much more modern

[@stickynorth]

Probably the darkest use case for it and the most likely... Agreed... SMH...

[@JustinHalford]

Don’t worry, robotics will leapfrog past teleoperation and rely solely on observation to learn (massive troves of video data available). Minimal human labor required to start the flywheel.

[@huckleberryfinn6578]

I think that this is a pretty clever approach. Like Tesla collected data from countless cars and build the FSD, this company does the same with sort of AGI. But the deadlines are completely unrealistic imho, same as Tesla. It will probably take a decade untill the robots can operate autonomously.

[@zoebrugg7594]

A robot servant is what you're making, not a dishwasher, a servant.

[@RedRyan]

This was unexpected. I didn't think that they were going to pull this off or even really attempt it. Others will certainly follow but neo is leading

[@VeriStrawberi]

1X really needs to hire an artist to design a cute and appealing face. Right now it's super creepy and sterile. Even if its simple! Look at Baymax vs Neo. Humans want friendly robots. Not sterile ones.

[@pcigrock5874]

It's not a product, it's a concept. A lot of work must be done from mechanic side before making it driven by AI. More precision, speed, accuracy

[@NoidoDev]

There's no relationship between those two. It's a software problem.

[@richardcheek2432]

Hmm, the devil inside me wants to teach Neo obscene words and hand symbols. Not sure we are ready for robots yet.

[@stefanogrilli_]

Inside that clothes I think there is Biden.

[@eriye92]

This video isn't completely transparent. There is an engineer that is tele-operating (in the background using controls) the robot. They briefly mention the "teleoperation" but at no point during the demo or homestay do they ever differentiate what actions were teleoperated by engineer controls and what did Neo do completely autonomously on it own. The "coffee-making" demo is a great example of either 1X or Jason obscuring the actually occurred during filming. I'm not sure if he just wanted a more amazing content for the video or if he purposely is helping 1X by downplaying all the teleoperation. If a company is unable to be honest to users on what are the actual current capabilities of its product don't expect anyone to be eager customers.

[@saturdaysequalsyouth]

This robot looks like something you have to babysit like an infant, not something that will reliably help you.

[@Vixth14]

It's almost like things take time to develop😂

[@saturdaysequalsyouth]

@@Vixth14 It's almost like people expect announcements to be useful

[@Vixth14]

@@saturdaysequalsyouth the title of the video is "I let a humanoid robot live in my home" not "this totally perfect robot does all my tasks for me!"

[@saturdaysequalsyouth]

@@Vixth14 “I let a pile of metal and wires take up space in my small apartment” doesn’t have the same ring to it, I guess.

[@Vixth14]

@@saturdaysequalsyouth they're pretty clear that it's in a learning phase. No need to project your nihilism onto others who are trying to better society incrementally. I know social media has taught the masses everything is instant but that is just not how innovation, especially something entirely new like humanoid robots, works

[@asatorftw]

Definitely entertaining to say the least. Referencing black mirror and flipping you the bird in one episode gave me a good chuckle. What a great timeline we live in haha.

[@kriserauw5970]

I’m now 52 and I think when I’m old a robot gonna wipe my ass in the retirement home.

[@Danuxsy]

a third world worker controlling a robot is gonna wipe your ass yes.

[@Linoy-u1c]

You need to give him low price so people actually can buy it, it will be interesting if in almost in every home will be this robot

[@Atreyuwu]

Almost seems a little worth the concern that 1X might be 'poisoning the well' a bit here. While other companies like Tesla have opted to wait until these things are well-and-ready to go into homes at a commercial level, the fact 1X wants to get things moving as early as they do (likely to get a jump on competitors and aggregate as much real-work training data as possible) could really put people off the entire idea, if what they are hearing on the news is a bunch of stories about how humanoid robots are fucking things up.

[@joseperez-ig5yu]

I'm ready for you to send me a humanoid robot to my home as soon as possible!😅😊

[@jebclang9403]

"SMEG"! 🤣🤣 Red Dwarf fans raise your hands 😂😂

[@somenygaard]

The fact that it’s going to be operated remotely by a human says a lot about how far away this type of thing is from actually happening.

[@jaycrooks5141]

I can’t wait till Optimus can make dinner and then keep up in the bedroom as well lol

[@User.70793]

States and governments are already taking steps towards universal basic income

[@r9999t]

Note that regarding privacy, having it NOT CONNECTED TO THE EVER WATCHING CORPORATION isn't even considered! Thanks, but no thanks!!!! Once my privacy is MORE important than your training data, then I might think about it.

[@poepflater]

The speed it walks with is like spending two days with an 80-year-old with a plastic hip.

[@kainaris]

They literally explain in the video that the robot is being remote-controlled by a human. And like, that makes sense, and it's perfectly understandable, and I believe them when they say that it's temporary and the comparison with the ship of Theseus. But in the video they act as if the robot was an actual AI and choosing what to do in real time. Why do they do this? Like imagine getting one of these in your house right now, and you know that it is being controlled by a human. You're aware that this is kinda like an experiment, and that you're helping the company with this, and that you're gonna be interacting with a real human being behind that metal body. If that was me, I wouldn't talk to the robot as if it was a robot. I couldn't because I know there's a human working on the other side, listening to my commands and basically being my servant to train the robot.

[@mandoy2080]

It's deliberately misleading. They glossed over the admission that it's remote controlled and then went back to pretending it's the AI controlling it. Very irritating and disappointing.

[@M4rk991]

It seems like they are rushing to release a robot companion for $16,000. However, they still have a long way to go before it is truly useful for the public. Take your time and ensure that the product is truly useful and beneficial to users.

[@GoodrumMC]

People will spend all day on the couch when this is widely available. At least I will lol

[@kainaris]

4:50 "Neo can you prove that the baby isn't hard-boiled-"

[@MaxBrix]

06:20 The bird beats scissors, rock and paper.