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Domestic robot costs $20k and requires remote operators to watch your home and control the robot

If you like the idea of letting strangers watch your home through your robot's eyes, here's a deal for you: 1X Technologies ...
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This $20,000 Robot Can Do Your Chores, But Has One Big Potential Privacy Pitfall

For more complicated tasks, 1X Technologies' Neo home robot switches to 'expert mode,' which involves a company employee remotely 'supervising' a session while the robot works.

The first consumer humanoid robot is here, and it lets strangers see inside your home

Robotics company 1X Technologies (1XT), which secured $100 million in funding from OpenAI, EQT Ventures, and others in 2024, unveiled a bipedal humanoid robot, Neo Beta, last year.
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Figure AI's New Humanoid Robot Can Fold Your Clothes, Do the Dishes

“Figure 03 is a general-purpose humanoid robot for every day,” the California startup said. In a video, it showed off the new ...
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NEC Announces Robot Control Technology

Tokyo, August 21, 2025 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced technology that utilizes AI to enable autonomous control of robot movement in complex environments with obstacles. NEC said its ...