This $500/Month Robot is a SECRET | Neo Robot Exposed

So, this is a robot that you invite into your home and it does all of your the things that you hate. Washing, drying, folding, hoovering, cleaning of all sorts. Sounds like the dream, right? There's a catch. This is Neo. Um, and he's a 5 foot 667 cm tall soft Wow. I say soft body. No, it's a it's a robot. It's metal. but um kind of the soft costume on that will walk around and we'll do everything that you hope and dream for the mere low low price of 500 bucks a month which sounds pretty reasonable. I looked at that and I was like you know what I could or you buy it for 20,000 outright which you know if you've got the money you go for it you know but 500 starts to make it a little bit more palatable. We're starting to get somewhere here. You can control it with your phone. So, you schedule it to morning, evening, uh morning, afternoon, or evening to do various different chores around the house. So, when you're off at work, it will just kind of do its thing and and do whatever you you set it to do. So, pretty pretty cool. But what's the catch? Well, there was an interview that was done with the Wall Street Journal, a demonstration that was done with the Wall Street Journal, and it did all of these chores and stuff like that, but what was happening around the corner, everything that it did was completely and 100% teleyoperated by someone with a with a MetaQuest headset on and a couple of remotes. Yeah. So, the catch is it can't do any of the things that it's promising to do. You are paying $500 a month or $20,000 to be part of a beta testing scheme. I don't know how the learning takes place, what where it's learning or do they program it and let it do certain things and then someone interjects when it struggles or something like that. But point is um it is a beta testing period and there is no known release date either. It's not quite the the dream. I'm still fairly excited about it. I'm always excited about new technology, but it's it's this and Marcus Brownie put it well. It's it's, you know, the promise, the distance between the promise and what is actually what what you're actually paying for. These 3D shots are fire though. Yeah. Yeah. Um Yes. And the the robot is also quite small and it's not really powerful to do any like heavy lifting. So it can do small things but even the fingers and the sensors are not amazing to do like every like small thing like picking up a cable requires so much precision like we are taking it for granted that we can pick up something small so easily without even thinking about it for granted. Yeah. I I think you you suddenly learn how much we take for granted. For instance, just a side note here when you were talking about something injecting vision into your brain. Just picture that you are able to not only see vision and look around, but you're also able to think things at the same time. Now, does this you know that's that's multitasking, right? To be able to see something. Your brain is doing that. You you totally take that for granted anyway. Sorry. Yeah. So the idea is that you pay 500 bucks a month and probably somebody across the world in a country where labor is much cheaper is operating this robot to move in your house. And it's quite different from just having a camera from a company in your like my cat feeder has a camera and it's a Chinese you know product like every other product you know it's quite different for me knowing that that cat feeder camera can be theoretically can be you know operated by somebody and you know they can see it see things compared to a freaking robot that can walk around the house and you know that's pretty creepy in a different level that what I don't like and also that it's it's not great at doing anything that they are uh promising it it can do for example the things that they show the things that supposed to be this robot to be the best at like for example let me show this one [laughter and gasps] but it's They are just not there. The reason the reason why I don't think we should play a lawful lot because copyright so we can't just I no we are like we're like I think this is like uh completely fair use. We are commentating on this uh precisely anyway doesn't matter we got we got stopped before. So, have you had a junior like a absolute junior on the team or like anywhere in any team trying to do something and you see how painfully slow and wrong it is and you just take the tool and you do it yourself. I see this and I just think, "Oh, I can't I can't watch the robot do this. I have to just just do it." If you're stood there watching a robot do this, then you need to you need you don't need the robot. You've clearly got too much time on your hands. But um the idea is good that it could theoretically of course there's plenty of robots out there that there's plenty sorry there's plenty of companies out there that have built these robots to do this just Neo or 1x sorry they are bold enough to say they've launched something which they kind of haven't and it's a glorified beta testing system which half these companies are doing they're just doing behind the scenes so I think they were just like first mover kind kind of advantage um to just say they're doing something plus get some more money because there will be people who you know I'm not I'm not totally against having someone like I hate being told that we should worry about certain things like honestly there are some privacy things that I just do not mind and if this teller operated thing like they've got so much to lose by being um you know uh malicious about their role as long as they're you know you you might worry about it being hacked or or bypassed or something like that, but what one really can they do and two, you know, they've got so much to lose by letting things mess up. So anyway, it depends. Yeah. Like but like in your house you especially it's a it's a machine with cameras. It's a robot that can move and theoretically it can like I don't know take your stuff and look stuff over. So it could be malicious, right? it could be malicious and we've seen like leaked documents uh from Tesla for example because they have also cameras and we have leaked documents like internally um people at Tesla looking at footage of random people and you know joking around you you know things happen in people's houses and they send these video clips internally and some of them leak so yeah you don't want your data that potentially maybe you don't have something to hide, but you still don't. That's what I mean. If you've got if you've got something to hide, then you should not be buying. Yeah. But, you know, but I don't. And even if you don't, you know, um I don't know is what I'm saying. So, different strokes for different folks. I'm not about to tell anyone they shouldn't worry about it, but I would Yeah. Would you let this robot to be in your house if you had the money to spend or if you That's what I'm saying. Probably would you probably if I had the money. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like even if it can't do much, you know, there's many many more questions you you ask me. Like I don't think they should be b you should be paying to beta taste this thing. Um but you know, it would I would depending on what it's like in a in a few in a year's time or whatever. But yeah, it it like the the fact that Okay, let's reverse the question. If this was not teley operated at all, like would you be happy with this in your house? Yeah, I'm I'm I will be on the line to buy a robot like right after the show, I have to clean up the the space because I will have guests over. So, you know, I'm I'm not really looking forward to that. But uh this is my issue is not only the tea operability but also like mostly it seems like from the video it seems like it's not really helpful. It can't do the things that they are promising to do. This is part of a larger conversation on my show Command AI which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter.