The announcement and slick video showing NEO is smoke and mirrors. The robot can autonomously perform almost none of the feats shown in the video. (In fairness, the company doesn’t claim that it does, but wildly downplays the amount of improvement needed in the future to enable autonomous action.)
The video was created almost entirely through teleoperation. That means somebody wearing a VR headset and special equipment was actually folding laundry, putting away the dishes and carrying trash, and the robot was acting as a puppet, aping the movements of the person remotely controlling it.
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