In 2022, robotics company 1X (previously known as Halodi Robotics) became partnered with OpenAI. The following year, the company received $23.5 million in funding, which it said would go towards the development of a “bipedal android model” called NEO, as well as “scale manufacturing of its first commercially available android EVE.”
1X has just released a video to reveal how development is going, showcasing a natural language interface it has developed to direct a number of its EVE robots simultaneously. In the video, the robots are directed all at once to tidy up the space, which leads the EVE models to jump (or, roll) into action, each carrying out different tasks at once to make the space more presentable. 1X notes that none of the EVE robots are being directly controlled; directives are carried out 100% by the neural network. Additionally, 1X insists that no camera trickery is involved, including no “cuts, video speedups, or scripted trajectory playback.”
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“Directing robots with this high-level language interface offers a new user experience for data collection,” the company says in a blog post. “Instead of using VR to control a single robot, an operator can direct multiple robots with high-level language and let the low-level policies execute low-level actions to realize those high-level goals. Because high-level actions are sent infrequently, operators can even control robots remotely.”
