Bill Nee
What if doing your chores were as easy as flipping a switch? In this month’s TED Talk and live demo, Bernt Bornich, roboticist and founder of 1X, introduces NEO, a humanoid robot designed to help you out around the house.
Watch as NEO shows off its ability to vacuum, water plants, and keep you company, while Bornich tells the story of its development. Bornich shares a vision of robot helpers that could free up your time by doing mundane tasks to let you focus on enhancing life’s quality and freedom.
Bornich shows that the household setting is overly complex, and it allows robots to deepen their learning and broaden their ability to adapt to new situations. He advocates for robot use in the home setting and believes we will be much better off, potentially transforming labor markets, pushing humanity toward abundance, and redefining life with more free time and a new type of companionship.
Could there be a downside in future job loss, human isolation, redistribution of wealth in society, or the disruption of humanity? Change comes with potential cost.
This TED Talk gives us a lot to ponder, but robots will arrive sooner than we expect. To view this thought-provoking 15-minute TED Talk, go to TED.com, then in the header, click “Watch,” and under the category, select “TED Talks,” then click “Search for a talk,” then input the title, “Meet NEO, your robot butler in training,” scroll a little lower, and click on the talk you selected.
Your robot awaits.