Everyone’s Freaking Out About This New $20,000 Android

No, that’s not just a guy in a suit, that’s NEO! Your friendly human robot who definitely won’t kill you while you’re asleep.

Except… it is kind of just a guy in a suit because the $20,000 android requires a remote human operator to perform simple tasks about your home.

The sun android tweet — Simple tasks like this…?

As Bernt Børnich, CEO of 1X, early purchasers will need to allow 1X access to the robot’s camera in order to gather data on performing tasks correctly. “If we don’t have your data, we can’t make the product better,” he threatened. “You have to be ok with this for the product to be useful!” he screamed.

Thankfully, the remote controllers won’t have full reign to control the robot whenever and kill you in your sleep; users can schedule in remote access, choose to have themselves blurred out on the camera feed, and designate certain rooms as off limits.

Eventually, 1X hopes to phase out the remote operators so that Neo can kill you in your sleep entirely by itself.

Does It Run On Android?

Neo comes with a tight ass and is surprisingly agile, but really struggles with simple tasks (even with a human operator), which is its whole purpose, so what’s the point?

Neo wears a cute lil sweater to appear more friendly and huggable (but don’t hug him, he will crush you to death). He (it?) comes in tan, gray, and dark brown, which is great because I was worried I wouldn’t be able to be racist to it.

It’s currently available for pre-order with a $200 deposit, but early access is available for $20,000. A $499 monthly subscription will be rolled out later on. Better hurry up, Elon, your Grok bot has stiff competition.

So what do you think? Is this the future of our lives? Or is this another bit of tech hype that people’ll invest a lot of money in when it actually turns out just to be a way of harvesting personal data, which the company then sells and makes a fortune before folding along with its tech and any hope that the technology will actually become commonplace?

Let us know in the comments section, which we don’t have!

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