A company have launched an AI-controlled robot butler for your home.
The NEO Gamma, announced this month, is a bipedal humanoid with uncannily person-like movements.
A teaser clip shows the bot helping a couple around the house.
It is seen putting on a kettle, vacuuming, cleaning the windows, helping with grocery bags and carrying a laundry basket.
Developers 1X, based in California and Norway, say they are releasing a number of prototype bots into select homes for testing.
NEO Gamma, successor to the firm’s Beta model, introduces AI advancements, enhancing both autonomy and safe teleoperation in the home.
The improved robot now walks with a natural human gait and arm swings, squat down to pick things up from the ground and sit in chairs, all while maintaining balance.
1X say this range of motion allows NEO Gamma to experience household scenarios and tasks that would be otherwise inaccessible to other robot form factors.
Bernt Børnich, CEO at 1X said: “There is a not-so-distant future where we all have our own robot helper at home, like Rosey the Robot or Baymax. But for humanoid robots to truly integrate into everyday life, they must be developed alongside humans, not in isolation.
“The home provides real-world context and the diversity of data needed for humanoids to grow in intelligence and autonomy. It also teaches them the nuances of human life—how to open the door, move carefully around pets, or adapt to the unpredictability of the surrounding world.
“Robots confined to industrial space or lab development miss out on this critical understanding. With NEO Gamma, every engineering and design decision was made with one goal in mind: getting NEO into customers’ homes as quickly as possible… We’re close. We can’t wait to share more soon.”
Hege Nikolaisen, 1X Head of Communications, said: “While NEO Gamma will go into select homes for testing, a lot of hard work remains in integrating the lessons from Gamma before full scale deployment.”
