First Batch of People Who Bought Robots for Housework in Despair

You've caused trouble more than once. If you're bored, buy a robot and let it cause trouble at home. It can precisely avoid all the correct routes and directly crash into your shiny mirror. With a bang, it's the mirror that breaks, but it's your wallet that aches.

This is not the only case of causing trouble. Autonomous robots remain too self-willed.

The legendary programmer John Carmack said: "It's better to sell remote household services than autonomous household humanoid robots."

Carmack's idea stems from the newly launched sweater-wearing humanoid robot NEO by 1X Technologies, which is sold with remote services. It can perform tasks such as folding clothes and fetching water, but it doesn't act autonomously. Instead, it is remotely controlled by a person wearing a VR headset.

Carmack believes that remote household operation is more practical. The operator's workload can be flexibly adjusted based on the robot's autonomy. Additionally, this method collects training data for the robot in real-world scenarios, helping it gradually gain autonomy and improve performance.

Autonomous robots are criticized because they have long caused trouble. Besides running amok, if allowed into the kitchen, they can create chaos by scattering vegetables across the floor or crashing into cabinets, sometimes breaking parts like their "head" into pieces.

Author's summary: Early household robots often cause more problems than help, prompting experts like John Carmack to favor remotely operated robots for safer, gradual autonomy development.

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36Kr — 2025-11-06

First Batch of People Who Bought Robots for Housework in Despair

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