Future face of ChatGPT? Chatbot creator invested $24 million in android production (5 photos + 1 video)

OpenAI, creator of the acclaimed ChatGPT chatbot, invested a large amount in the company 1X, which produces humanoid robots designed to perform human work. Perhaps this is what ChatGPT will look like if its creators decide make a physical version of your bot.





The EVE robot has manipulator arms that can lift items, as well as packing and unpacking boxes. Company claims that the robot is designed to work alongside humans.

Startup fund OpenAI leads investment round which on the robot, which should enter the market this summer, was raised $23.5 million. This investment clearly adds fire to OpenAI competition with Elon Musk's Tesla bot, whose production is still didn't start.

Brad Lightcap, COO of OpenAI and manager of the OpenAI Startup Fund, stated: “1X is at the forefront of increase the workforce through the use of safe advanced technologies in robotics. Startup fund OpenAI believes in approach and the impact that 1X could have on the future of work.”



1X intends to use the funds received to expanding production of its first commercially available android EVE in Norway and North America, as well as to create another bipedal android, NEO.

Experts have suggested that in the future, EVE and NEO may replace workers or nurses.





EVE is designed to gently move objects and manipulating them, interacting with soft objects, including people, and performing repetitive tasks. The humanoid is controlled using VR, and the robot operator in the control center looks through the "eyes" of the android camera.

The company is currently recruiting for artificial intelligence: “If you are smart, kind, purposeful and want to create androids, join us,” says the 1X website.



Many experts believe that large language models such as like ChatGPT will fundamentally change how we use robots and we interact with them.

Earlier this year, Microsoft, which invested 10 billion dollars in OpenAI, demonstrated how researchers use ChatGPT for managing robots. In response to simple voice commands, such as "Find out where I can warm up lunch", the robot could point to microwave oven across the room.

Microsoft said: "We want to help people make it easier interact with robots without having to learn complex languages programming or understand the details of robotic systems. The main task here is to teach ChatGPT to solve problems taking into account laws of physics, the context of the operating environment, and how physical the robot's actions can change the state of the world."



Last year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk demonstrated at the company's Artificial Intelligence Day in Palo Alto "draft version" of a walking robot, variously called Optimus or Tesla Bot. Musk said he expected the robot to arrive in sale in three to five years.

1X's EVE robot will be the first humanoid android available to the general public.