Road to VR

In-home Helper Robot ‘NEO’ Uses Remote VR Operators to Help with Chores

NEO is a humanoid robot from Palo Alto-based robotics startup 1X that could one day autonomously help out around your home.
The Manila Times

DFRobot Launches HUSKYLENS 2: An Easy-to-Play AI Camera -- From Self-Training to LLM Understanding

DFRobot presents HUSKYLENS 2, a powerful yet easy-to-use AI vision sensor designed to inspire makers, educators, competition teams, and AI enthusiasts around the globe. Built on a high-performance 6 ...
Interesting Engineering

Programmable materials create motor-less finger that offers stable positions for robotics

A programmable metamaterial finger can lock into four positions without electronics. A simpler, more functional future for ...

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.