What if a humanoid robot entered your daily life? This is the invitation launched by 1xNorwegian company supported by OPENAI And Nvidiawhich will soon offer a few hundred homes to test Neo Gammahis latest prototype.
This robot works, opens the cupboards, sprinkles the plants, passes the vacuum cleaner. He can grab a bottle, load a washing machine, or squat to catch linen … but he does not do it alone. Each gesture is still partially remotely remote -offvia VR helmet and controllers, by a human technician. The objective is not to demonstrate final capacities, but collection of behavioral data To train its AI models.
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A technology centered on learning in real conditions
Technically, Neo Gamma is a 1.65 meter two -meter robot, equipped with Stereoscopic cameras, gyroscopes, pressure sensors, microphones and fine finger joint. His locomotion is Simulation learnedthen transposed to the physical robot. On the other hand, handling objects (opening a door, loading a dishwasher) remains Piloted by humanswhich makes it possible to collect a flow of contextualized, varied gestures, useful for training internal models.
“All that Neo does, he does it thanks to what he saw doing,” explains Eric Jangex-robotics, now VP IA in 1x.
AI is ownerco-trained with certain partners (including Openai), but most of R&D is House. This hybrid approach, (physical robot, human piloting, machine learning) aims to build a true embodied intelligence.
An independent startup, but strategically connected
Founded in 2014 by Berndt Børnich, under the name Halodi Robotics,, 1x uses around today 200 people distributed Moss (Norway)where the assembly plant is, and Sunnyvale (California)for its IA teams.
The company has raised more than $ 125 millionwith weight actors, especially OPENAI, NVIDIA, TIGER GLOBALbut also Kindred Ventures Or Sandwater. 1X develops and manufactures all of its robots internallycontrol the whole chain, from equipment to AI.
Why test in houses, and not in the factory?
Unlike its American competitors (Tesla with OptimusFigure AI, Apptronik), 1x takes a different bet by going in homeswhere disorder is king.
Because it is precisely this disorder that forms the best data, cHaque variation of brightness, each poorly placed piece of furniture, each unforeseen object becomes a case of useful use. The home is the best open -air laboratory, where the robot can be confronted with the unpredictable and in reality.
Data, security, privacy: a protocol to build
Experimentation naturally raises Ethical and practical questions. Neo Gamma is equipped with cameras, microphones and sensors And his operator can see from a distance what the robot sees.
1x ensures that:
- Remote control is possible that with the explicit agreement of the customervia an app.
- Data can be deleted within 24 hoursbefore being used for learning.
- The robot is covered with a Soft nylon textile coatingto limit the risk of injury.
To accelerate its development 1x Recruit:
- Research Engineer, Automy
- Software Engineer, Ai Tooling
- Software Engineer, Teleoperation
- Research Engineer, Robot Character
- Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure
- Research Engineer, World Models
- Research Engineer, Reinforcement Learning
- Ai Residy
