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We are excited to introduce NEO Beta–the pre-production build of our home humanoid.About 1X:1X is an AI robotics company that develops safe, intelligent humanoid robots designed to work alongside humans. Founded in 2014, 1X is headquartered in both San Francisco Bay and Norway.
NEO Gamma is the next generation of home humanoids designed and engineered by 1X Technologies. The Gamma series includes improvements across NEO’s hardware and AI, featuring a new design that is deeply considerate of life at home. The future of Home Humanoids is here.
What if doing your chores were as easy as flipping a switch? In this talk and live demo, roboticist and founder of 1X Bernt Børnich introduces NEO, a humanoid robot designed to help you out around the house. Watch as NEO shows off its ability to vacuum, water plants and keep you company, while Børnich tells the story of its development — and shares a vision for robot helpers that could free up your time to focus on what truly matters. (Recorded at TED2025 on April 8, 2025)
Redwood AI’s latest Reinforcement Learning (RL) controller gives NEO Gamma a complete mobility toolkit—enabling natural walking in any direction, sitting, standing, kneeling and stair climbing using stereo vision. Unifying these capabilities in a single system marks a major milestone in realizing the full potential of humanoid robots.
Introducing Redwood— 1X's breakthrough AI model capable of doing chores around the home. For the first time, NEO Gamma moves, understands, and interacts autonomously in complex human environments. Built to learn from real-world experiences, Redwood empowers NEO to perform end-to-end mobile manipulation tasks like retrieving objects for users, opening doors, and navigating around the home gracefully, on top of hardware designed for compliance, safety, and resilience.
NEO is a safe humanoid robot that does your chores and offers personalized assistance.
The 1X Neo is one of the first humanoid robots built for your home and is equipped with full AI software. For $20,000, you can pre-order X1’s Neo now with delivery set for 2026. But a company representative might need to peer into your home, via Neo’s camera eyes, to help get things done.
WSJ’s Joanna Stern spent time with it—and its creator—to see what it can really do and how much it still requires a human operator’s help.
Chapters:
0:00 The first humanoid home robot
0:37 Neo’s body (hardware) and safety challenges
3:27 Neo’s brain (teleoperation vs. autonomy)
7:11 Neo’s usefulness vs. privacy tradeoff
8:11 Neo’s future
NEO is designed for gentle and safe interactions, making it perfect for the home.