Creepy human-like robot designed to live in your home set for release, CEO assures ‘priority is safety’

A company have launched an unsettling robot designed to live in your home. The NEO Beta is a bipedal humanoid with uncannily human-like movements. Developers 1X, based in California and Norway, say they are releasing a number of their prototype bots into people’s homes this year. A teaser clip of the NEO shows it helping a person get ready to go out by handing her a rucksack and giving a hug. The company believe the robot could help with household chores, as well as work in warehouses, manufacturing and the...