Facts

• Company: 1X Technologies
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: development
• Capability focus: Generalist
• Website: https://www.1x.tech/neo

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Record / Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

NEO is 1X’s biped home humanoid for household chores and personal assistance. It is designed for domestic environments, with onboard autonomy for simple tasks and scheduled remote expert support for harder chores.

Overview

NEO is 1X’s biped home humanoid for household chores and personal assistance. It is designed for domestic environments, with onboard autonomy for simple tasks and scheduled remote expert support for harder chores.

Market context

NEO is 1X Technologies' home humanoid robot for domestic tasks, social interaction and household assistance.

• Target environment: Private homes and controlled domestic environments.
• Workflow context: Household assistance, object handling, conversation, remote assistance sessions and training-data collection.
• Deployment model: Consumer humanoid robot sold through preorder and planned subscription access.
• Commercial maturity: Public preorder product with initial deliveries planned for 2026.
• Adoption constraints: Requires safe home operation, privacy controls, reliable autonomy, remote-assistance workflows and consumer support.
• Market position: Home-first humanoid platform focused on consumer environments and early adopter deployment.
• Adjacent products: Domestic humanoid for household chores, social interaction and supervised home task execution.

Audience

Homes

Workflow

Household assistance, object handling, conversation, remote assistance sessions and training-data collection.

Capability

generalist

Deployment environment

Private homes and controlled domestic environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Homes
• Workflow: Household assistance, object handling, conversation, remote assistance sessions and training-data collection.
• Capability: generalist
• Deployment environment: Private homes and controlled domestic environments.

Specifications

• Height Cm: 168 cm
• Joint Architecture: Hands 22x2; arms 7x2; neck 3; spine 2; legs 6x2
• Hand Dof: 22 per hand
• Walking Speed: 1.4 m/s
• Max Run Speed: 6.2 m/s
• Weight Kg: 29.94 kg
• Runtime: 4 h
• Charging: Quick charge, 6 minutes per hour runtime
• Actuation: Low inertia tendon drives
• Ip Rating: Hands IP68; body IP44
• Compute Model: 1X NEO Cortex with Nvidia Jetson Thor
• Sensors Summary: Dual 8.85MP 90Hz stereo fisheye cameras and four beamforming microphones
• Communication: WiFi, Bluetooth, 5G
• Interaction Model: Built-in large language model with audio intelligence, visual intelligence, and memory
• Operational Environment: Home
• Safety Features: Covered pinch-proof joints; HIC less than 250
• Battery Capacity Wh: 842 Wh

Tags

• Peer Group: Home service humanoid
• Workflow: Humanoid workplace tasks
• Capability: Mobile manipulation
• Deployment Environment: Home environment
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Record / Articles

• 2026-06-24 - Article - 1X, Unitree and the Humanoid Developer-Market Gap
• 2026-04-30 - Article - 1X opens NEO Factory in Hayward, California

Timeline / Research

• 2026-06-25 - Executive Hire - 1X appoints Tom Sanocki as VP of Engineering - Tom Sanocki joins 1X as VP of Engineering after engineering leadership roles at Roblox and Meta Horizon Worlds.
• 2026-04-30 - Facility Opening - 1X brings NEO Factory online in Hayward, California - 1X announced that its NEO Factory in Hayward, California is live and fully operational.
• 2026-01-12 - Research Publication - 1X details video-pretrained 1XWM policy transfer from world model to NEO - 1X described a newer 1X World Model pipeline in which a video-pretrained world model and inverse dynamics mo…
• 2026-01-12 - Capability - 1X Technologies Unveils NEO's World Model for Enhanced Robot Learning - 1XWM leverages video pretraining to enhance NEO's understanding of physical dynamics and object interactions.
• 2025-12-11 - Partnership - 1X supplies 10,000 NEO robots to EQT portfolio companies by 2030 - The deployment focuses on industrial applications, including manufacturing and logistics, rather than home use.
• 2025-10-28 - Demonstration - 1X Demonstrates NEO's 'Human-in-the-Loop' Strategy in Launch Video - 1X's launch video showcases NEO's 'Expert Mode,' allowing human operators to supervise tasks the robot cannot perform aut…
• 2025-10-28 - Product Launch - 1X launches NEO as a consumer-ready humanoid home robot - Demonstrates autonomous charging capability, addressing a key challenge in home robotics.
• 2025-06-16 - Research Publication - 1X releases the 1X World Model for humanoid policy evaluation and scaling - 1X shared progress on 1XWM, a world model that predicts the consequences of NEO's actions and accelerates p…
• 2025-06-10 - Research Publication - 1X introduces Redwood AI for end-to-end mobile manipulation on NEO - 1X introduced Redwood as a vision-language transformer for humanoid mobile manipulation, covering tasks such as re…
• 2025-03-18 - Partnership - 1X and NVIDIA collaborate on NEO humanoid autonomy research - The collaboration supported a NEO autonomy demo for NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at GTC 2025.
• 2024-01-16 - Funding - 1X Technologies Closes $100 Million Series B - 1X announced a $100M Series B financing round.

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Target Annual Capacity Robots - toward 100,000+ robots/year - 2026-04-30 - NEO Factory / San Carlos facility - humanoid robot manufacturing - 1X says planned automation increases and the San Carlos facility are expected…
• Planned Annual Capacity Robots - up to 10,000 robots/year - 2026-04-30 - NEO Factory - humanoid robot manufacturing - 1X says its Hayward NEO Factory is live and, with San Carlos coming online later in 2026, the company…