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Neo Gamma (Home Humanoid)

by onnnon on 2/21/25, 8:02 PM with 47 comments

  • by Tiktaalik on 2/21/25, 9:28 PM

    Do we have any sense that this is actually real and not a carefully crafted made up demo?
  • by spondylosaurus on 2/21/25, 9:15 PM

    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.

  • by sockaddr on 2/21/25, 11:07 PM

    It's really telling how we're shaping our artificial helpers to not have a mouth, but eyes are alright. As if they're allowed to receive input but they should not bother us with any output!

    For me an ideal artificial helper would be something I could have in the house and talk back and forth with while it works or have it as part of the dinner conversation. Think Bicentennial Man. Now that's what I want.

  • by xnx on 2/21/25, 9:08 PM

    The hardware is maybe 4% of robotics. 96% is the AI behind it.
  • by BugsJustFindMe on 2/21/25, 8:50 PM

    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?
  • by onnnon on 2/21/25, 8:03 PM

  • by bromuro on 2/22/25, 2:17 PM

    Reminds me the 1980 movie “Io e Caterina”, where the robot ends to control its owner:

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0082567

  • by nanomonkey on 2/22/25, 2:48 AM

    This is all good and all, but where can I buy that knitted jumpsuit for myself.
  • by neilv on 2/21/25, 9:28 PM

    The look is reminiscent of "The Black Hole" (1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw2y3faZhUk
  • by plagiarist on 2/22/25, 1:27 AM

    Is this some sort of ARG that will turn out to be an extended trailer for some killer robot sci-fi movie? Seriously creepy vibes, well done if intentional.
  • by gmuslera on 2/21/25, 8:55 PM

    Just in time for the next season of Black Mirror.
  • by justlikereddit on 2/22/25, 11:24 AM

    A Chinese guy in a robot costume sold at loss to drive IPO valuation?

    Sign me up

  • by ein0p on 2/21/25, 10:43 PM

    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.
  • by NullPrefix on 2/22/25, 1:36 PM

    Can you .... uhmm.. use it for sexual pleasures?