Dozens of companies are building robots that look like humans. One of them is training a machine to be a butler and will soon test them in homes.

NEO Beta is an android assistant that will be in homes later this year, as 1X assures us that safety is the priority with this eerily realistic robot.

Norwegian robotics startup 1X plans to start testing its humanoid robot, Neo Gamma, in 'a few hundred to a few thousand' homes this year.

Robots are decidedly future tech, however this automated helper is now being released in many trial homes this year. This is NEO Beta, a robot that is meant to mimic human locomotion and ...