Asmongold Crashes Out | Neo Robot

Yesterday we saw the introduction of the

Neo robot which is not autonomous at

all. It's teaoperated likely by some

foreigner who essentially remote

controls a robot in your home to do

things at the moment really poorly

without any autonomous features or

artificial intelligence. Uh and what

you're really doing is you're putting an

investment into the company by

pre-ordering this robot without actually

getting any upside of equity in the

company. So, you're basically giving the

money to this company under the guise

that one day you will get a robot that

can do things for you in your home,

which is really provocative. We all want

this. Now, uh this company has done a

really incredible move in that they've

basically gone viral uh even though the

robot sucks, they've gone viral over it

because of both a criticism uh and b

praise. People are very excited. And

then of course you have people that are

like, "Oh, well, some people are just

mad because it's not the Tesla Optimus

or this that or whatever." We are so

many years away from these things

actually being functional, especially

with what we saw with the dishwasher

loading. But today, we're going to react

to Marquez and Asongold reacting to this

robot. So, we'll jump through this

together. Let's see what they have to

say about this disastrous robot.

I feel like it's been

>> ah yes, it would actually be useful if

we had audio. So, we'll go ahead and

punch that on.

>> Minutes since I've done just like an old

school

and losing her house. It's finally here.

Get your mind out of the gutter. It's

for doing chores.

>> It's a housekeeper. It has the same

dexterity as a human because it's shaped

just like a human. Walks around on two

legs. Has

>> It doesn't actually have the same

dexterity or capabilities as a human. I

mean, if you look at what we saw with

the Wall Street Journal uh interview by

uh Joanna, uh the neo robot can't really

grab things, grab things like a human or

do things like a human could. Uh for

example, if we look at I mean, I think

the best example is just this right

here, dropping the second cup in here

and then the miserable

attempt to close the dishwasher. Now,

it's great. I mean, it's optimistic.

Hey, like we're getting somewhere. We're

trying to make progress, right? But

really, to me, what this is, this is a

company that bolted together uh tendon

actuators that you could, you know, buy

off the shelf and dressed this up into a

soft looking robot. Uh and and now

they're using it as a fundraising tool.

Uh there was even a moment where they

show this trying to wipe the table or

crack a walnut and it just it just

doesn't have the capabilities of doing

the the things that humans do right now.

So, this doesn't actually have the

dexterity that of of a human and and I

would expect that Marquez would say

that, but he hasn't yet. So,

>> fingers, it can fold laundry and put it

away for you, or it can do the dishes

for you from start to finish. And

>> this is all like I think he's just

getting into like the pitchy part of

like the vision of what it could do for

you. Uh, self-charge enabled. Come on,

dude. [laughter]

>> Self. Imagine going out for the day of

work and coming back a few hours later.

Okay, this is all [clears throat] the

vision of what human we already know

about the vision.

>> Flat $20,000 to own it outright and get

priority delivery. Just drop a $200

fully refundable deposit to get in line

today and deliveries in the US.

>> This company is going to get so much

money just in pre-orders. And none of

those people are going to get the

benefit of upside and equity in the

company, even though that's basically

what they're doing. This company is it's

almost like a fake it till you make it

uh strategy. And it's kind of brilliant

for the company.

>> Start. This is for people who the idea

of

>> Oh my gosh. Marquez, stop marketing the

damn thing. Just get to the damn point,

would you? Geez lord.

>> Oh, here's the wall next. You You don't

think they would show her the best stuff

that this could do autonomously to keep

selling the dream? If you want

>> Yes. Thank you, Marcus. Finally, dude.

It took us 4 minutes to get to the full

point. And I think Marquez does that

really well. like he doesn't want to be

so offensive to these companies. Uh

because he does get a lot of

sponsorships from the companies as well

and product demos and invitations to

events. Uh so he kind of has to start by

being nice. I get it. Uh but finally 4

minutes in. Don't you think the company

would show the best that they have now?

Yes, you do think that. Did they? No.

They showed Joanna zero autonomous

features. Watch that keynote video back.

To their credit, you'll notice that they

actually are very careful to label

exactly when the robot is doing

something autonomously and not

teaoperated. And in that whole nearly 10

minutes,

>> right, but it's edited, so it doesn't

matter. Edited videos don't matter. You

want to see actual production.

>> This product can actually do today and

what it can maybe hopefully do someday

in the ideal future are it is massive.

They are massively far apart. And so

that that's really my main issue. There

seems to be a bit of a lost art in

waiting for a tech product to be

actually finished before announcing and

unveiling it. Like do you remember when

tech

>> Right. Right. Correct. Like that's

that's exactly what's happening here is

it's there's a race to announce your

successes in these robotics uh to g to

get fundraising because this company has

the most attention ever. Like I would

argue that the fundraising that they've

done is the greatest fundraising that

they've ever been able to do. If we go

to trends.google.com, let's just try it.

Let's just Google Neo Robot and let's

see what we got here. Uh so if I go to

the past 90 days, for example. Uh yeah,

I mean this is not even going to be

comparable, but let's compare it to

Tesla Optimus. Okay.

Oh my gosh, dude. Look at that. Searches

for Tesla Optimus relative to Neo. Let's

go to like past 5 years cuz we might get

more Optimus. Look at that. The highest

you had on the Optimus was over here at

like what the 30th percentile, 35th

percentile. The the Neo robot is so like

3x that search result. Uh let's get a

little bit more granular. Maybe the last

year here. No, I mean it's just it's

just not even it's not even close. Uh

let's just look at Tesla in general

versus Neo Robot. Okay. All right. So

Tesla in general as a term beats. What

about Nvidia? I'm just trying to find

something to compare it to. No, that

beats as well. Okay, let's try

Bloomberg. You know how many people are

typing Bloomberg News in? Look at that.

It almost has as many searches on Google

Trends uh you know in this last week

period right there, which is going to be

concentrated into a day, right? But

anyway, as the search term Bloomberg, I

mean, this is insane advertising that

they pulled off here.

>> Companies would unveil a brand new tech

So the rabbit R1, for example, will

solve.

>> Oh yeah, that was a disaster.

>> In order for this robot to be everything

people want it to be, they need to

develop a super smart AI system that

looks through the robots.

>> Well, remember what Brett Whitten said,

which is very interesting. Uh I actually

think I I I respect Brett Whitten. I I

think some of his bullishness is too

bullish and misplaced. But understand

he's he's a very smart individual. uh

he's very very bullish on Tesla robo

taxi and uh uh robotics. He argues that

it to ramp humanoid robots. Uh it's

going to be 1,000 to 10,000 times more

difficult than robo taxi, which implies

we won't actually see a ramp up of

robotics until 2030 to 2032. I actually

think it'll take even longer than this.

But beyond this, he also argues,

I believe it's here. Yeah, here it is.

He argues that the first estimate is

that Tesla will need to spend 100 to 200

billion on AI compute to solve the

robotics problem. So, we've got a lot of

work to do.

>> Sensors and is able to learn its

environment and recognize everything

it's looking at and teach itself to

navigate that environment.

>> This is an example here of not human

dexterity. This was a

>> environment and perform tasks. It has to

learn what a laundry room is and what

the laundry looks like and the roomate

or not. And like what if one of the

tasks is going and and getting the right

medication for an elderly person,

bringing it to them that it it has to

get that right. Like it needs to

identify the correct medication at the

right time and the right intervals and

bring it

>> that it's decades for that. Uh maybe not

decades, maybe 5 to 10 years.

>> Early adopters. So people who press that

order now button first and who actually

>> they're going to get scammed. This is

like Nickeola. This is like pre-ordering

your truck that rolls down a hill.

>> I guess get one of these when they start

to ship them. We'll get a robot that can

probably do a few simple things

autonomously, like opening doors. But

there will be many things it can't do.

And for that, if you scroll down on

their website, you can see there's

expert mode, which is when you have

something the robot can't yet do, and

you schedule one of their teleaoperating

employees to look through the sensors

into your home and do the task so that

the robot can learn from it. And this is

something that they've so that the robot

can learn from it. There's it's this

idea that they're going to be able to

collect so much data from this tea

operating inside of your home. It's

going to be such diverse data. There is

some provociveness to that. Uh there is

some excitement around the amount of

diversity of data that they're going to

get through being able to teleoperate.

To some extent, this is what Amazon is

doing with their delivery drivers. They

want to equip their delivery drivers

with glasses so that they can record

what their drivers are doing uh and then

eventually replace them with robots. So,

you know, the people are basically

replacing their uh or or training their

replacements. But supposedly they can

also get like recommendations on how to

Tetris together the uh uh the products

better. But look at this. You know,

these are for example the uh the the

Meta Sporty glasses or whatever.

Apparently they've got like five

microphones on the side that uh will uh

enable video recording while you're

going 30 miles an hour up to 30 m hour.

Maybe I should should I do give this a

try later? I could go on a go-kart and

maybe I can make a video uh with these

and and we could see if it works. We

could try it. Uh but like I'm a big fan

of technology. Like I think when people

hear me poop on like these robots,

what do I hear? There's music playing.

Uh anyway, so uh yeah. So very cool. But

Amazon is equipping these or people with

these so they can get the data and

learn. So there is some value to this.

direct pretty directly said that they

expect early adopters to be totally cool

with like go watch Joanna's video. I'll

link it below the like button. She did a

great video all the healing and

promising that this could maybe be a

post smart

cameras and microphones into your house

and it could also fall over.

>> Well, keep in mind [clears throat] this

whole like privacy thing too was kind of

funny because most people have like

Siri, a Fire TV, Alexa, Google, you

know, whatever. I probably just

activated a lot of those. I apologize,

but a lot of people have these in their

homes. Like, they're already listening

to all of our stuff. You know, adding

the camera. Are we really adding at this

point that much? So, Neo the home robot

order today. Here we go. Let's

>> All right. We already saw things away

from being able to have sex with these

things. I mean, honestly, we're

>> tell this is like the very first thing I

would expect as Mongol to say because I

don't know this, but I think his

demographic is a lot younger than mine.

Uh, I would argue that his demographic

is probably 13 to 24. Uh, and the

majority of my demographic is actually

uh 35 to 45. My next largest demographic

is actually 45 to 55 and then I get the

24 to 35 crew. So like my audience is

significantly older. Uh and so like it's

not a surprise to me that for his

audience this is the first thing that he

goes to. [laughter]

years past some people

>> they they have like you could just

>> people having sex with these things you

know read books about like how we used

to have slavery and then we got rid of

it and you're thinking like oh my god

like I've got to mow the lawn

why can't

>> yeah okay so this idea of like this

being like a slave or whatever for you I

mean yeah that's why it's kind of an

exciting idea like everybody wants a

legal slave right and that's basically

what these robotics are so if I go the

DJI

uh robots.

Uh so let's go to I think it's DJI has

one. No, it's Segue. Segue lawnmower

robot.

So if you go look at this, this is the

Segue robotic lawn mower. I don't have a

lawn that I can really try this on, but

apparently I mean this would be very

interesting because here you have AI

assisted mapping and vision fence image

obstacle avoidance

app controlled and multiszone

management. So you already have a robot

that can go mow your lawn for you. This

is like Roomba except for lawnmowing,

right? So very interesting. All right,

let's keep going with uh Asong Gold's

take here on uh on this.

>> We just have somebody do this.

>> Oh my family had time or data would help

[music] humanity explore the galaxy,

>> right?

>> And I really bullsh

its tendon driven body is quiet and

lightweight. Okay,

>> it's low energy motions makes

>> battery life.

>> Okay, we saw the details of it. I want

his opinion

>> on the house. [music] What's your name?

>> Nice to meet you.

>> Okay, so this is All right. It's in the

box. It's the egg.

>> Okay.

>> Hey, I'm Neo. I'm here to help around

the house. What's your name?

>> Har.

>> This like I I don't understand this like

shock on Asong's face. Like, bro, it's

not that shocking. Like, have have you

turned on GPT's voice mode? That's all

you need. And then you have the same

thing just put into now a tea operated

body. You know, somebody else going

like, come on, man. We can go start a

robotic company, too. go buy these

actuators off the shelf, slap some

clothing on it, or what a lot of

companies do is they 3D print the shells

to make them look more approachable cuz

otherwise it's just like metal framing

and spider framing. It doesn't look that

good, right? Uh and and then slap like

grock in it and you're good. Like it's

not that hard to have a an unfunctional

humanoid robot right now. It's not that

shocking.

>> Nice to meet you, Harry. [music]

When you have a question or want

something done, just let me know.

[music]

[music]

>> You schedule a time that you want or

using the app. The way it works is you

schedule if there are any chores.

>> I I I can't I don't almost I can't even

believe this. I can't. There's no way

this shit's actually going to work.

>> Holy duh [ __ ] They're cheaper than

slaves. Oh my god. Oh, he uses Grock to

do his math to compare them to be

cheaper than slaves. Figures come from

auction records. So adjusted for

inflation, a slave that would have cost

you $1,200 in the 1850s would have

equated to 40 to 50 $45,000 today.

Jeez, man. Um, well, I mean that's why I

got seven kids. You know, for 10 bucks,

you know how much a child would do.

You

>> remember what I was saying? Expert mode

to have an expert from 1X supervise the

session and provide corrective

intervention to help Neo complete any

task.

>> I see. That's smart.

>> Yeah, it's the same thing that Amazon

did with the Indians in the Amazon call

centers.

This is not it's not like AI should just

stand for actually Indian.

>> So what if you

know what never mindbody

[music]

actually think that in 50 years we're

not going to have this?

>> Oh, we we will. I actually agree with

that. Like in 50 years, yes, we will

absolutely have robots. I don't know if

they will actually look like humanoids.

I I'm not con I'm not convinced that a

humanoid is necessary for a household

robot. Like I think you can have a robot

that's very specifically designed uh for

very specific tasks that don't

necessarily require its humanoid form.

Like I actually think that if I were a

household robot, I would kind of prefer

to have more arms, right? So like give

me four arms. I could do more in the

kitchen. I can cook more at the same

time. So like like a you know an

arachnid style humanoid would actually

in my opinion be a lot more functional.

Um I'm okay with the two legs. I might

go for a third leg. I think a third leg

could be useful for the weight that you

could support. Um I understand why

they're doing humanoids now because it's

basically a crutch because you could you

could control them with a human body.

That's why we're using these humanoid

form factors because it's a crutch to

train these things faster.

It's clearly coming. Everybody knows

this is coming.

>> Make it charge in the closet. Yeah. Cuz

without it being controlled by like, you

know, a man in the closet, right?

>> India.

>> I want to see it happen,

>> right? Cuz this is just a marketing

video. He's right.

>> Just what to cook based on what you have

in the fridge. remember your progress

while teaching you a new language and

even give you in talking to

>> most of that is just verbal AI that you

could get out of any chatbot today to

decide if it should respond or not

[music]

>> just got to

>> Yeah. No, for sure. Okay. Can you make

[music]

>> You know, the irony about this whole

like get the door thing is we have like

automated locks now that we could use.

So if you're like get the door, you

could also just press like unlock door

or frankly I mean it would not be very

hard to automate the opening of your

door either. And it would cost you way

less than 20 grand if you that's all you

wanted to do was go open the door.

>> Hey Neil, can you take this cup to the

sink for me? and breaking it down into

simple steps such as walking to [music]

the person, grabbing the cup, and then

walking the cup to the kitchen, and then

putting it away. Neo's autonomy improves

with diverse data and real. This is

what's so provocative about this is like

that does seem awesome. Like, I want

that. Like, hey, go go go take this

trash out for me, right? Hey, 500 bucks

a month if you can, you know, have a I

guess a robot slave that's controlled by

somebody in India. TV.

>> As Neo does more chores, you'll [music]

receive updates to your Redwood model

that increase the complexity.

>> Yeah, somebody in the chat's like, I'm

buying too.

>> Tasks that Neo can handle, such as

finding [music] your keys and wallet or

damn

>> doing a

>> finding keys and wallet is like this

age-old issue of us as humans just not

putting our stuff back where we should

be putting it back.

>> Whole laundry cycle [music] end to end.

>> See, that's what I need him to do for me

>> cuz I Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.

get today will only get better. [music]

>> And as we keep shipping features,

>> it'll be more and more useful in your

everyday life.

>> Yeah.

>> Now, the except the problem is what

usually happens is as you ship more

features, you end up exploding the

hardware uh and the software that you

have built into the machine and then

there becomes a limit to how much you

can do software updates to it. So then

you end up having to like buy a new

machine. And so your $20,000 investment,

I don't know if it actually ends up

going to like the version two of a of

the version of the robot. That that's

the scariest part is that you get and

like I don't know that you want to be

like a phase one buyer of this kind of

product because it's just going to suck

so badly. I mean, understand what

happened with the u Joanna Stern

interview in their demo. The thing ended

up having to get cooled because it

overheated uh by somebody standing there

holding a fan uh at it. And then when

she mockarena

>> Neo had to go to urgent care.

>> See you Neo.

>> They had to crane it out because she,

you know, got it all tied up in a little

bit of a dither. So like they don't have

the cooling technology yet. Like these

V1 hardware versions are basically a

scam. It's it's a it's really smooth and

sexy marketing, but it's basically a

scam. journey there is not going to be

perfect and [music]

one of those

>> I think you missed

>> okay so if it can throw it can kill

>> spot over here

>> I wonder if these can turn red

>> Terminator style yeah

>> but where you were at it was illegal

but you're having sex with the robot

>> oh my gosh we're back to that dude who

listens to this come on man where's the

and a smart brain. What

>> factory robot

>> burnt? Why am I wearing this sweater?

>> Think it would

embarrass.

>> If only the real world don't cut it.

>> Don't cut. I want to see it happen.

>> Yeah. No, of course you can't see the

whole thing happening cuz if they didn't

cut it. Remember, it took 5 minutes for

it to put a fork and two drink wear

items in the dishwasher. Two glasses,

right? 5 minutes. Th this doesn't count.

They're You're cheating. It's a guy

that's controlling. This isn't an

autonomous robot. This is a guy

controlling a robot.

>> Yes.

>> This is [ __ ]

>> A LITTLE

>> YES. FINALLY. THAT'S WHAT I SAID FROM

THE FIRST MINUTE. FINALLY. FINALLY.

>> Over a minute to fetch a water from the

fridge [music] 10 ft away. Thank you,

Neo.

>> Next challenge. Load three items in the

>> Here we go. This is It's a guy doing

this.

The reaction of that glass falling over

is like classic.

It's just a It's just a guy. It's

literally [ __ ] This is literally

Wizard of Oz [ __ ]

>> Yes, it is. Behind you.

>> [ __ ] [ __ ] You [ __ ]

>> Yeah, dude. THAT'S WHAT I CALLED IT

YESTERDAY in the first 30 seconds of my

video. I'm like, this is [ __ ]

[laughter]

bro. Are you kidding me?

>> Oh. Oh,

>> thank you.

>> And that took 5 minutes. The Neo I saw

isn't the one shipping. That's really

good because if you don't have to do

anything, that's great.

>> The new model,

>> I don't know. It's really bad.

>> Will be safer and have better hand

dexterity. The one I saw still needed to

take breaks to charge

>> cuz remember, it's more than

>> uh Oh, that's really good. It put three

pieces of dishwear away in 5 minutes.

That's really bad. First of all, it's

now you have to deal with the

overheating, the headache of it, the

complexities of it, the money that you

spent on it, the $500 a month, which is

like a car payment that you're paying

for it, the charging it, the cooling it,

the upgrade issues, the hardware issues,

the breakdowns. This is like the

scheduling the task. Oh, I'm going to go

in the app and go, "Yes, please put

these three dishes away." Like, it's

ridiculous.

>> Yeah, there's the fan helper.

>> It's also its brain on its own without

human

All right.

>> Is essentially when there is a human in

the loop

>> and who is the

>> human right now of Neo.

>> I am a remote operator in a different

room in the building.

>> And what's your

>> god bro?

>> Yes.

>> Facing operated like this in the first

place or real world.

>> I was I was on the moon.

>> Now I'm like an asteroid about to hit

the [ __ ] dinosaurs again.

I'm about to crash.

>> I'm going to crash the [ __ ] out, bro.

Like, this is a scam.

>> This is I'm My day is like I actually

thought like, bro, are you kidding me?

Are you kidding me? It's literally just

Kyle. It's just Kyle controlling the

robot and it still doesn't work.

>> The videos of the robot doing things via

tea operation become the training data

to make the AI model smarter. That's why

1x is putting

>> it's just going to take so many hours.

They're just not going to have enough

users buying this stuff to actually pull

that off for a very long period of time

and they don't have the capital. But

they are raising a lot of money. They

did a great marketing piece here. It's

just a scam. It I I wouldn't be

surprised if in a few years this company

>> to take

>> How do they not ask about having sex

WITH THE ROBOT?

>> OH GOSH. OH, is that like the fourth

time I've heard him say it? Damn it. How

do you get lullabyte for 20 minutes in

your video and then you realize it's a

[ __ ] scam yet even after you realize

it's a [ __ ] scam, you go right back

to, so when do we have sex with it?

>> Why not advertise these [music] things

that you told us here? I feel like

nobody else knows about this.

>> We'll we'll try a little advertising and

see how it goes.

>> Congratulations, man. You have done so

much. People love you. People look up to

you.

>> Kevin Praath there, financial analyst

and YouTuber. Meet Kevin. Always great

to get your [music] take.