Hardware

1X NEO

1X NEO is a humanoid robot developed by 1X Technologies for household environments, distinguished by quiet tendon-driven actuation, low-inertia limbs, and a soft textile covering intended to make close human contact safe. NEO is operated through a mix of learned autonomy and human teleoperation, with remote operators handling tasks the policies cannot yet complete while their interventions generate new training data; consumer preorders opened in 2025.

Why it matters for physical AI

Home humanoids stress-test the full physical AI stack, including safe compliant hardware, data flywheels built on teleoperation, and honest boundaries between autonomy and remote assistance under real consumer expectations.