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Stunningly Competent Humanoid Robots with a High Creepiness Factor
They have weird faces, they wear clothes, they all look jacked
This is technologically impressive and downright eerie. 1X, a Norwegian company developing humanoid robots, is showing off their completely autonomous EVE model—which has a gym body torso, wears clothes, features a primitive illuminated smiley face, gets around on wheels, and works in nearly complete silence.
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It's freaky that some of them appear to nod to themselves as they begin tasks. If the faces are meant to represent joy or friendliness, it's not working. The shot of one cleaning a dimly-lit children's room makes you wonder where they hid the bodies. The deafening silence, as well as the fact that there's so damn many of them in the space is also creepy.
That being said, this is certainly one of the more eye-opening videos in terms of what humanoid robots are now capable of. 1X says their mission is to "[design] androids that work alongside people, to meet the world's labor demands and build an abundant society."
"Every behavior you see in the above video is controlled by a single vision-based neural network that emits actions at 10Hz. The neural network consumes images and emits actions to control the driving, the arms, gripper, torso, and head. The video contains no teleoperation, no computer graphics, no cuts, no video speedups, no scripted trajectory playback. It's all controlled via neural networks, all autonomous, all 1X speed."
I do hope they keep the EVE robots on wheels—as a safety feature; should they go haywire, we can ascend a flight of stairs to get away from them.
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These robots could learn some nuanced moves from MJ...
I've been waiting for the Borg collective
Why the bots only seem to use one arm at a time? I mean put 6 arms and they can do 6 things at once. grab the box while grabbing the product while grabbing the packing while grabbing the tape while grabbing the label.
That's because anthropomorphic robots aren't serious machines. They're veiled threats from capital to keep workers from complaining too much.
"Alongside" Yeah. Sure.