[HN Gopher] Neo Gamma (Home Humanoid)
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Neo Gamma (Home Humanoid)
Author : onnnon
Score : 17 points
Date : 2025-02-21 20:02 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.1x.tech)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.1x.tech)
| onnnon wrote:
| Promo video:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVcBa6NXAbk
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| Those people don't have any art on their walls except for in
| that one shot.
| throwanem wrote:
| Yeah, Alex Garland really goes in for that minimalist,
| organic-architecture kind of style.
| throw310822 wrote:
| The thing even sits on a couch, staring into the void, after
| doing all its chores. Seriously this stuff is unsettling at the
| deepest level. I already feel uneasy commanding an LLM at any
| time to do work for me. This human-shaped golem is dressed with
| a grey jumper that puts it exactly midway between a home
| appliance and a person. Will they sell more attractive clothes
| to dress them up a bit better? And then, will we end up asking
| them to check the mirror and tell us if they like them?
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| Founded in 2014. Do they have any actual product that isn't
| purely aspirational yet? Can you buy this Neo Gamma? What were
| they doing in 2014?
| turnsout wrote:
| Waiting around for AI to be good...
|
| Honestly, this thing does look super impressive. The movements
| are much faster and more fluid than the Figure humanoid. The
| 2030s are going to be nuts.
| onnnon wrote:
| Apparently, they are using the robot in employee homes:
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| "We've been dogfooding NEO Gamma in 1X employee homes for weeks
| now, doing chores around the house. Under the suit, NEO Gamma
| has a lot of HW improvements that make it more reliable. The 1X
| AI team also pushed _hard_ to get natural human-like walking,
| sitting, and bending down to pick things off the ground. My
| conviction that the humanoid form factor is the _only_ viable
| shape for serving labor in a home has never been higher. "
|
| - Eric Jang (AI at 1X)
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| https://x.com/ericjang11/status/1893019683374436404
| uoaei wrote:
| > the humanoid form factor is the only viable shape for
| serving labor in a home
|
| I have never heard a good argument for why this might be the
| case. Anyone care to chime in? I know that "built
| environment" and "ergonomics" exist but generally there is a
| lot of open space in a home that allows for a vast array of
| possible form factors.
| krsdcbl wrote:
| almost everything you have in your home is built for
| humans, so adopting this form factor is the likeliest to
| fit everywhere and be able to operate everything
| gmuslera wrote:
| Just in time for the next season of Black Mirror.
| xnx wrote:
| The hardware is maybe 4% of robotics. 96% is the AI behind it.
| spondylosaurus wrote:
| When you scroll down one pane (to the "Home Humanoid" section)
| you get a nice jumpscare of that thing's... face, ish.
|
| I would not enjoy waking up in the middle of the night for a
| glass of water and finding that thing staring at the foot of my
| bed.
| Bjorkbat wrote:
| Yeah, I have to admit it looks kind of "uncanny", but at the
| same time it kind of has a sense of personality to it that
| other humanoid robots lack, in part because it has face with
| two distinct eyes.
|
| The knit "suit" is also kind of a nice touch. Can't help but
| think that a robot wearing a sweater is kind of endearing.
| Tiktaalik wrote:
| Do we have any sense that this is actually real and not a
| carefully crafted made up demo?
| neilv wrote:
| The look is reminiscent of "The Black Hole" (1979):
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw2y3faZhUk
| ein0p wrote:
| Could we maybe stop showing robots vacuuming with a hand vacuum
| at this point? $200 robovacs have LIDARs now. Nobody is going to
| buy a $100K robot to do this.
| krapp wrote:
| Or lean into the boomer retro aesthetic and make them look like
| this[0].
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| [0]https://www.blackgate.com/2019/07/31/arok-the-robot/
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