The first consumer humanoid robot is here, and it lets strangers see inside your home

Robotics company 1X Technologies (1XT), which secured $100 million in funding from OpenAI, EQT Ventures, and others in 2024, unveiled a bipedal humanoid robot, Neo Beta, last year.

I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.

X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
New Scientist

Robot avatar lets people see and feel things remotely through VR

A humanoid robot can relay video and touch sensations to a person wearing haptic feedback gloves and a virtual reality (VR) headset hundreds of kilometres away, offering a way for people to ...
Science Daily

Robot stand-in mimics movements in VR

Researchers have developed a souped-up telepresence robot that responds automatically and in real-time to a remote user's movements and gestures made in virtual reality. Researchers from Cornell ...
Engadget

Reachy the robot can now be controlled via VR

Last year at CES French startup Pollen Robotics debuted Reachy, an open-source humanoid robot (the top half of one at least) capable of performing a wide variety of tasks — from traditional R&D to ...
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VR could help train employees working with robots

Working with robots is becoming more common in the recycling industry, helping automate tasks and making complicated work easier. But training human employees to work with robots can be difficult ...
Forbes

Robot Stealth VR Game ‘Budget Cuts’ Coming To PlayStation VR This May

The rather excellent stealthy robot-stabbing game Budget Cuts is finally coming to PlayStation VR in May. In collaboration with publisher Perp Games (Moss, Sairento, Doctor Who: The Edge of Time), ...