NeedToKnow: 1X Technologies has introduced NEO, a 5’6″ tall 66-pound humanoid robot that uses dual cameras and AI that supposedly learns from every interaction. The company claims it is “consumer-ready” and is designed to handle household chores like folding laundry, organizing shelves, and vacuuming your floors. However, when NEO encounters something it can’t handle autonomously, a human operator can take remote control through a VR headset. They see everything NEO sees through those same cameras mapping your living space.
Early adopters should understand they’re not just buying a robot-they’re accepting remote oversight in exchange for automated chores that may not actually save time. more
h/t Joe6pak
There is nothing new under the sun. Slave or serf, maid or butler, roofer or robot, The Help has always been a snoop. Do it yourself, or expect the intrusion.
“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”
No thank you.
Can it be taught to load magazines? Run a reloading press? And how about handling an M1 without smashing its thumb?
A robot that needs to be directly operated by a human is not a robot, its a drone.
Those are not the same thing.
Uncle AL
Friday, 7 November 2025, 8:18 at 8:18 am
“Can it be taught to load magazines? Run a reloading press? And how about handling an M1 without smashing its thumb?”
…if the human operator looking through its eyes doesnt like your politics, it may do all that then shoot you with it as well…
While surfing the internet a month after buying one, you start seeing pop-up videos of you getting out of the shower while it’s handing you a towel… or worse!
Then you get the emails telling you how much to pay to not have this happen.
…this was all pretty much covered in Frank Herbert’s DUNE…
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
-Frank Herbert, “Dune”
…and also, in Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot” (screen adaptation here)…
https://youtu.be/ry1N9lrzt7A?si=8gkHjZKzWlUU0X6H
…as always, like a gun, a knife, a hammer, or a saw, a robot is a tool and nothing more. Tools can be used for good or for evil.
History tells us it will be the latter.
…sooo, when they start building sexbots using this paradigm, will it be teleprostitution?
And they WILL use this and EVERY tech for perversion, you can be sure.
See the whole rest of the history of the Internet for further details.
…but what they can see, they can also record.
Remember that no matter WHAT you do with your semi-robotic “help”…
@SNS:
I wouldn’t let it anywhere near firearms unless under close armed supervision (12G slugs).
There’s already a word in use that might fit: teledildonics. 🙄🙄🙄
Uncle AL
Friday, 7 November 2025, 9:09 at 9:09 am
“I wouldn’t let it anywhere near firearms unless under close armed supervision (12G slugs).”
…thats what THIS guy thought, too…
https://youtu.be/jxoowglHU2w?si=8bDpGgCkyIHrAd_6
How Long before Slick Willie tries to Bang one?
^^^^I’d hit that!
@Kcir — “since”, not “before”. He was probably a beta tester.
😉😉😉🤖🤖🤖
Think of the advantages for child rearing! As a baby sitter, it’ll endlessly play games with little Billy while teaching him five languages and administering corporal punishment when necessary, even allowing the parents to engage in remote spanking using the robot’s ‘ROV mode’ (Remotely Operated Vehicle) from the restaurant!
I do not trust any kind of AI, robots, androids etc., smart appliances, SIRI Alexis and other snooping devices. I do not need to have my every action monitored by an electronic device that snoops on my privacy. I have a flip phone just because I do not need all the bells and whistles and doohickeys on a smart phone and that probably is also snooping on me as well. And I’m sure my computer is as well. My oldest daughter was telling me yesterday about a new use for landline phones that uses a SIM card on the landline that’s connected to your cell phone that allows for more privacy since you can use it like an old- fashioned home phone that can be mounted on the wall or in a place where phone calls can be monitored by parents which I think is a great idea. She was also telling me that my granddaughters will not be allowed to use social media of any kind until at least they’re 16 or older. Good for her, let my granddaughters be kids as long as they can and not be exposed to all the bs and malarkey of electronic devices that steal their privacy and their freedom.
Just give me a trillion dollars bonass & I will prove everyone will want one of my robots. Mars mission, another heavy rocket failure & robots. Which will happen next year?
Correct answer is all 3. Yep, now I took all the money I will be blasting off to Mars with my trusty campanion robot. Rocket failure, I hope not 🤞.
Danger, Will Robinson.
I saw this movie, it never works out well.
…and as someone who has been working with industrial robots of various descriptions for 30 yeara, I can confidently say that $20k in the robot world will get you “jack” and “shit”.
Enjoy your cheap drone and expensive drone pilot…
So does it have smell sensors so the remote operator can sniff your underwear?
west world part 3
I’m waiting for the new NS-5 model to come out.
So… they’re Honeypots?
Wait, Honeybots. lol
The orgasmatron from Woody Allen’s movie Sleeper may become truer than we know.
@geoff the aardvark:
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