1X Company’s latest humanoid robot, Neo Beta, has shown amazing progress in the field of cooking, successfully challenging the challenge of making medium-rare steak, competing with well-known food influencers and achieving success. The editor of Downcodes will give you an in-depth understanding of Neo Beta’s cooking skills and the technical support behind it, as well as 1X Company’s considerations on security and future development planning.
1X Company recently brought a major upgrade to its cutting-edge humanoid robot Neo Beta, demonstrating its cooking capabilities for the first time. In a unique cooking showdown, Neo Beta competes with MasterChef's youngest finalist and well-known food influencer Nick DiGiovanni, challenging them to make medium-rare steaks.
This intelligent robot showed impressive cooking talent and perfectly completed the steak on the first try. It can handle basic operations from seasoning to flipping with ease, fully demonstrating its excellent ability in fine operations. However, it is worth noting that Neo Beta still requires human assistance in key aspects such as firing.
At the technical level, Neo Beta uses the VR Teleoperation App system independently developed by 1X to achieve motion control through Meta Quest. Although the robot already has the ability to conduct real-time conversations using GPT-4, in this demonstration, the team chose to use manual triggering for communication to ensure the stability of the demonstration effect.
Based on security considerations, 1X Company has adopted a cautious promotion strategy. Although Neo Beta performed well in the cooking test, the company decided not to open the cooking function to the first batch of users due to potential risks such as high temperatures and sharp objects in the kitchen environment. They plan to give Neo Beta priority in gaining experience in low-risk scenarios, and then gradually expand to more challenging tasks.
This demonstration not only showed the broad prospects of humanoid robots in the field of home services, but also highlighted the current development status of AI technology: while achieving a high degree of automation, it is still necessary to maintain human-machine collaboration to ensure a balance between safety and efficiency. As technology continues to evolve, we are expected to witness humanoid robots unleash their potential in more fields and bring new possibilities to human life.
Neo Beta's cooking skills demonstrate the potential of artificial intelligence technology in complex tasks, and also indicate that intelligent robots may be integrated into more scenarios in our lives in the future. But safety and human-machine collaboration are still the key. We look forward to Neo Beta bringing us more surprises in the future.