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Not long after, 1X showed off their own humanoid robot butler, NEO,<\/a> which they also advertised as a social companion \u2014 but one of its features raised eyebrows online.<\/p>\n While the NEO is capable of operating on its own, buyers can activate its \u2018Expert\u2019 setting, which allows a 1X employee to take over and control the robot remotely.<\/p>\n Article continues after ad<\/p>\n This flies in the face of most people\u2019s assumptions that these robots are fully autonomous. After all, having a stranger inside your home from halfway across the world isn\u2019t exactly a comforting thought\u2026 but it might be the future of home assistants. At least, in the beginning.<\/p>\n Article continues after ad<\/p>\n AI robots powered by \u201carm farms\u201d and human operators, LA Times discovers<\/p>\n Christopher spoke with several experts in the AI space for his report with the LA Times<\/a>. Ulrik Stig Hansen, co-founder of a data management platform called Encord, says there are plans to build entire warehouses in Eastern Europe to house employees who will operate these robot assistants remotely.<\/p>\n Christopher also discovered AI \u201carm farms\u201d \u2014 businesses that employ people whose job is to wear a Go Pro on their heads and record themselves carrying out mundane tasks to help train the algorithms these robots will use on the job.<\/p>\n Article continues after ad<\/p>\n One of these tasks is folding towels over and over again, giving the AI repeated data to help robots fold clothes at an expert level. One of these farms, a start-up named ObjectWays, requires employees to completely start over if it takes them longer than a minute to fold a towel, or if they do it incorrectly.<\/p>\n Article continues after ad<\/p>\n In fact, most of the workers doing the folding are engineers, who Christopher noted aren\u2019t used to doing chores and take turns folding the towels during their shifts.<\/p>\n Article continues after ad<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes we have to delete nearly 150 or 200 videos because of silly errors in how we\u2019re folding or placing items,\u201d an ObjectWays employee told the outlet.<\/p>\n This is just a taste of the data these sorts of companies are gathering from humans. One startup, Micro1, hires workers to wear smart glasses that record \u201ceveryday actions,\u201d while FigureAI partnered with a real estate firm to capture movement within 100,000 homes to teach robots how to move inside houses.<\/p>\n Article continues after ad<\/p>\n Deepen AI founder Mohammad Musa said that these robots are currently running on a mixture of remote operations and human-driven data collected outside the West, but speculates that this trend will eventually change.<\/p>\n \u201cToday, a mix of real and synthetic data is being used, gathered from human demonstrations, teleoperation sessions and staged environments,\u201d he said. \u201cMuch of this work still occurs outside the West, but automation and simulation are reducing that dependency over time.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues after ad<\/p>\n This is just the latest shocking news to come out of the AI<\/a> robotics space after a patient who\u2019d received Elon Musk\u2019s<\/a> Neuralink brain implant was able to feed himself using a robot arm<\/a> he controlled with his mind in early October.<\/p>\n Article continues after ad<\/p>\n In fact, an AI \u2018music artist\u2019 is going viral after securing a record deal<\/a> for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and Billboard reports that AI-generated tunes are swiftly climbing up the charts<\/a> as the artificial intelligence boom continues to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AI race is heating up more ever thanks to the ambitious introduction of robot assistants, whose algorithms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-263066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/figure-03-loading-dishwasher.jpg\"\/)
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