Something Big Is Coming for 1X’s NEO Robot
- 1X Technologies published a teaser video of its humanoid robot vacuuming, followed by a date of October 28, suggesting big news is coming for its flagship product, NEO.
- The Palo Alto–based robotics company is reportedly preparing to begin home testing of NEO Gamma this year, following major announcements of its Redwood AI foundational model and its 1X World Model simulation system.
1X Technologies has released a teaser video on its social media channels that suggests we may be getting a major announcement for NEO, its flagship humanoid robot, next week. The video starts by showing a pair of feet and a vacuum being pushed on a carpeted floor before panning out to show NEO the robot's face and fading out to show a 10.28 date and a link to its website to sign up for alerts.
It is possible that we will get more details on the availability of NEO for home use. 1X's website states that "NEO Gamma’s design opens the door to start internal home testing—a first step in creating fully autonomous humanoids." And a report from TechCrunch in March indicated that 1X expects "a few hundred or thousand people might get to try an early, human-assisted version of Neo Gamma this year."
Founded in 2014, originally as Halodi Robotics, 1X unveiled its NEO Beta humanoid robot nearly a decade later. The company said NEO Beta "marked a major milestone for 1X as the company transitions from conceptual development to bringing humanoid robots into consumer households." 1x followed the debut with a cooking competition with Nick DiGiovanni, which saw NEO Beta go head-to-head, cooking a steak using a VR Teleoperation App running on Meta Quest.
In 2025, 1X introduced NEO Gamma, the next version of its humanoid robot built for home use. It features a softer, safer design with knit coverings, joint casings, and expressive “Emotive Ear Rings” that give visual feedback. 1x says that the hardware is ten times more reliable and 10 decibels quieter than the previous generation, bringing noise levels down to roughly that of a household refrigerator.
Source: 1X Technologies
1X’s new Redwood AI enables its NEO Gamma humanoid to move, grasp, and act on spoken goals entirely onboard, without relying on the cloud. Redwood is a vision-language model that helps NEO understand its surroundings, follow spoken instructions, and move its body to perform tasks like opening doors, picking up objects, and navigating safely around the home. Trained on diverse real-world data, Redwood generalizes to unseen objects and spaces, learning from both successes and failures to continuously improve its ability to understand and act in dynamic human settings.
Source: 1X Technologies
To train and refine Redwood’s real-world intelligence, 1X built the 1X World Model, a simulation system that predicts how different robot actions play out across varied home environments. While Redwood powers NEO’s behavior in the physical world, the World Model serves as its virtual counterpart, testing, evaluating, and improving those behaviors safely and efficiently before they reach the real robot.
The humanoid robot space is heating up. Just this month, Figure, 1X's direct competitor, debuted its latest generation humanoid, Figure 03, along with details on how it plans to scale production to 12,000 units per year, with a roadmap to 100,000 over four years.
We will be watching the 1x channels on October 28 and will be sure to report on what the big news from 1X is all about.
🌀 Tom’s Take:
With competitors racing to scale humanoid robot production, all eyes are on 1X next week to see what move it makes next for its flagship, NEO.
Source: 1X Technologies
