In August of this year, OpenAI's robotics company 1X Technologies (referred to as 1X) officially launched the humanoid robot prototype NEO Beta (referred to as NEO) designed specifically for families.
Recently, the robot unlocked a new scene - the kitchen, where NEO and internet famous chef Nick DiGiovanni engaged in a home cooking showdown, competing to make the perfect medium rare steak. Nick is the youngest finalist in the history of MasterChef, the largest and most diverse culinary reality show in the United States in terms of variety and number of contestants. On the YouTube channel, Nick currently has 21.2 million followers.
In the video, NEO turns on the gas stove, imports olive oil, picks up the steak with nimble hands and puts it into a hot pot, presses the steak with a frying spatula and flips it over. There are many humorous conversations and mistakes such as spilling olive oil during the process.
The 1X team stated, "We (mistakenly) believed that NEO might mess up at least one steak because it is a completely new skill for it. Unexpectedly, NEO Beta was successful on its first attempt, and the 1X team and Nick subsequently enjoyed a spare steak
However, the entire operation is still not "fully autonomous driving". In order to enable NEO to truly execute these tasks throughout the entire process and capture each process action to help NEO learn, the entire process is completed through 1X remote operation.
Cooking process: Cutting vegetables and other operations still require human assistance. The team stated that the only obstacle between NEO and fully automated medium rare steak is data input.
Interactive session: The conversation between NEO and Nick is pre-set. The team stated that although NEO is equipped with real-time dialogue function through GPT-4o voice integration, they still chose controlled dialogue to meet Nick's vision for video.
NEO has once again demonstrated its potential in handling complex tasks. When can we expect to see its presence in an ordinary person's kitchen?
The 1X team stated that the cooking function of the robot will not be immediately available to the first batch of NEO users, and they hope to ensure that NEO accumulates safer task experience before handling sharp or high-temperature objects.