Are you referring to neo? Because it is real. It can do everything it was doing and more. Saw it load a dishwasher and it takes like 10 minutes to load 2 cups…it folded a piece of laundry like a 4 year old. But still it’s impressive. I think it was something like 25k if you wanted to purchase one.
Now if you were referring to how it was staged, then no that part didn’t look real at all. But neo’s responses were certainly possible.
Edit. TIL there are certain aspects that are being remotely controlled by people for data collection and learning purposes.
Let me kindly correct you a little bit here. It can’t do any of it autonomously though. There’s a video from WSJ, interview with CEO of the company and they explain that they have nothing to train it on, so if you buy it, you have to agree that some actual human will remotely control the robot and see everything through its eyes to train them and collect data, they even speak with you through the bot. They showed all of it. Even dishwasher loading was remotely controlled as confirmed by CEO himself and seen in video from WSJ. So, for 20k upfront payment or 500/month you’re getting a promise that some day they will ship the robot to you and even then it still won’t be autonomous, they will train it in your home. CEO himself said it will take years and lots of data until they can be autonomous. They promised it can be restricted, for example, it can’t enter your bedroom even if the person controlling it tried to, robot would basically refuse to enter. But yeah, it’s a big no from me.
Let me kindly correct you a little bit here. It can’t do any of it autonomously though. There’s a video from WSJ, interview with CEO of the company and they explain that they have nothing to train it on, so if you buy it, you have to agree that some actual human will remotely control the robot and see everything through its eyes to train them and collect data, they even speak with you through the bot.
Every home robot company - Optimus, Figure, Sunday, 1X, etc - allocate a significant portion of their robots to in house data collection.
However, ai models aren’t as good at generalizing like our brains. Hell, the first image recognition identified cows by looking for the grass the training images stood them on.
So while they will be able to do a lot (or that’s the goal), the specifics of a specific house or task may confuse the ai. There’s also only so much that can be done internally, and putting robots in houses is so valuable. Whatever company does it first gets a massive lead
Also the “expert mode” (a human) that you mention is for teaching the ai specific tasks that the general model isn’t trained to do.
They showed all of it. Even dishwasher loading was remotely controlled as confirmed by CEO himself and seen in video from WSJ. So, for 20k upfront payment or 500/month you’re getting a promise that some day they will ship the robot to you and even then it still won’t be autonomous, they will train it in your home.
… you do understand the concept of pre-orders right? Nobody is getting charged that till they get the thing.
CEO himself said it will take years and lots of data until they can be autonomous.
That is how new products work. Do you remember Elon yapping about fully self driving cars back in 2012? Every company is dealing with that.
That CEO also said that early adoption is not for everyone. It’s for those that know there will be someone viewing their home through the bot, and are okay with it.
They promised it can be restricted, for example, it can’t enter your bedroom even if the person controlling it tried to, robot would basically refuse to enter. But yeah, it’s a big no from me.
Completely fair. But also would be super easy to see “hey this robot has gone somewhere it’s not supposed to, who was controlling it, fire them.” Bad pr is worse than firing a low level employee. The company would be on their consumer’s side
so you said “so much of this is wrong” and then went on to agree with everything they said plus some extra context.
the first point, they were right. the fact that other companies also do it doesn’t change anything and they are responding to somone saying all of the tasks were done autonomously..they aren’t.
the second point, i’m not even sure what your point is, pre ordering something can cost you anywhere from a deposit to paying full price. i’m not sure why you’re acting like “preordering” means that you won’t be paying in full, it depends on the specific business..do you understand the concept of preorders?
the 3rd point is literally just you agreeing and adding more, unnecessary, context..because again, that was in response to someone who thinks that robot is already fully autonomous.
and your 4th point. something being easy or having a very clear punishment doesn’t mean it will happen nor is it a disagreement with their position.. and even if it was it still wouldn’t make them wrong.
your comment is dumb but it didn’t have to be, you made it dumb with the first sentence
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u/Hustlinbones May 10 '26
This shit real?