Neo Wants to Usher in the Era of 'Robotics Slop'

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    "excerpt": "Neo wants to usher in the era of 'robotics slop'\n\nTuesday evening, a little-known company called 1x Technologies dropped a nearly 10-minute video announcing the launch of Neo, \"the home robot.\" It was one of those videos that the company surely thought would break the internet by showcasing something groundbreaking, and it inserted some Super 8-style footage to make it appear as though Neo, a fabric-wrapped robot, is just another member of the family.\n\nIt may have achieved the \"break the internet\" part of its goal, as the launch video racked up nearly 30 million views (though that is by X's notoriously unreliable count). But it didn't take long for the seemingly tightly wound threads that give the bot its sock monkey exterior to start to come apart, beginning with the Wall Street Journal's hands-on review of Neo.\n\nFirst, the major revelation: Neo isn't just a humanoid robot; it's actually controlled by a human. Stern revealed that Neo is currently fully teleoperated, controlled by a real person performing tasks remotely and using a virtual reality headset to see through the beady camera eyes of the robot. So, for the low, low price of $20,000 or $500 per month, you can invite a stranger into your home to sort of do your chores for you.\n\n\"Sort of\" is important to note here because Stern's review also revealed that Neo isn't really good at anything that it's supposed to do...",
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