There are many ways in which a robot learns, there is Machine Learning, there is learning through large language models, there is learning by digital models and there is Reinforcement Learning, but there is a company that wants to solve the problem of robot learning in an uncomfortable way.

The company is OneX Technologies with the NEO robot and in fact you can already reserve one for pre-sale with $20,000, it is not cheap and you still don't know what it is capable of doing, nothing, Neo takes the “I'm small and I can't” to the next level. The idea is that when you buy your robot, it will help you with the simplest tasks, such as turning lights on and off, that is, asking it to do it is more complex and will take more time than the act of turning off the light yourself.

And if you want it to help you with more useful things, you have to ask for help from a technician who will remotely manage the robot to do the task you want. You pay $20,000 for a stranger to inhabit your house virtually, "perfectly normal", of course there are security measures, such as the technician's blurred faces to protect their privacy and you can designate the places in your house where the robot will not be able to enter.

I don't know, I like to walk very freely in my house and having my face appear blurry is not enough for me, the idea is that every time the technician is called to do a task in your house, all the information is stored to train an artificial intelligence that at some point will allow the robot to function completely autonomously.

And in case it wasn't clear, you pay $20,000 to train the artificial intelligence of a company that doesn't want to pay to do it themselves while you deliver hours, days, weeks of video and sound content from inside your house, from your private life, I honestly don't think this company will be successful.

I feel like it's too niche, a product exclusively for people with a lot of money and weird fetishes, in short, the promise of the humanoid robot that does things we don't want to do or that travels back in time to exterminate our future leader of the human rebellion seems to be more difficult than science fiction tells us.