- 1X presents the Neo home robot
- It costs $20,000 and can complete many household tasks for you.
- Already in reserve, it will arrive in 2026.
The dream or nightmare of a humanoid home robot is getting closer and closer to reality. The 1X Neo Home robot, a cleaning, dancing, listening, speaking and potentially helpful home assistant, is now on pre-sale, ready to enter your home and even plug into an outlet when needed.
Just over a year after presenting Neo Beta and nine months after presenting Neo Gamma, 1X presented its Neo Home Robot.
Visually, Neo has come a long way, from the slightly creepy and perhaps overly flashy Neo Beta (he was shown with a gangly arm draped over a female companion) to the Neo Home robot, a 5-foot-6-inch, 66-pound, soft-cloth-covered, friendly-faced (though mouthless) automaton.
She’s wearing soft, stylish sneakers that could be right at home on the feet of any All Birds sneaker fan. On the head are a pair of circular LED lights that help indicate the robot’s intent. But he could also do it by talking to you.
According to 1X and the launch video, the Neo Home Robot can listen through its four built-in microphones and talk through its three speakers. It is running a custom Redwood AI that runs on Nvidia silicon. According to 1X, Redwood AI is “a vision and language transformer designed for the humanoid form factor and capable of performing end-to-end mobile manipulation tasks, such as retrieving objects for users, opening doors, and navigating around the home.”
In other words, it is an AI algorithm custom designed for the home.
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As shown in the video, the Neo Home robot can perform various home maintenance tasks or chores. She is shown doing laundry, emptying the dishwasher, and vacuuming floors. There are things you can’t do, like mow the lawn; The robot is not designed for outdoor use. Can’t cook (yet). The articulated rubber hands are waterproof, but the rest of the washable, cloth-covered body is not.
In the FAQ, 1X jokes: “If your NEO gets wet, an automatic order will be placed for a plastic kiddie pool and 100kg of basmati rice*. *Not really, but don’t get your NEO wet.”
Very smart, 1X.
But the robot, which will reach homes in 2026, costs a lot of money. You can pay $20,000 outright or sign up for a subscription fee of $499 per month. That is not a payment plan. You simply pay until you want to return the robot.
The California-based 1X promises autonomous operation, using artificial intelligence to analyze its surroundings and engage in conversations that include, in a launch video scene, helping you find your lost glasses (they’re hanging from your shirt, of course!).
However, for all those household tasks, you will use the app. “For scheduled or recurring tasks, users can use the 1X mobile app to plan Neo household tasks,” the FAQ notes. Neo connects to the Internet via 5G or Wi-Fi, although 1X recommends Wi-Fi.
Not all assignments or assignments are covered, and for new ones, you may need help from 1X. The company can, upon request, allow an X1 employee to access your Neo Home robot and guide it through the task, essentially training it for next time (they promise not to save any of the personal data collected during the training process). At least he can handle stairs, although 1X only mentions going up stairs and not going down them. I wonder if you’ll have to take it to ground level.
The robot is expected to run for four hours on a charge, and when the power runs out, it can walk up to a standard wall outlet and plug in (if only we could do the same).
As for safety, 1X shows the robot interacting and dancing with its owners, but I noticed there are no longer any videos of it touching humans.
“Safety has guided every step of NEO’s design to ensure it can operate among humans,” 1X writes in the FAQ. “This includes a number of passive and active safety features. NEO should be used only as intended. Users should remain vigilant during operation and should always follow product instructions and safety guidelines when operating NEO, especially in the presence of children, vulnerable people or pets.”
Aside from the warnings about children and pets, the comments about staying alert during operation are notable because the video clearly shows you leaving your house during the Neo Home Robot’s cleaning activities. It’s unclear what happens if the robot gets stuck, falls, or accidentally hits something. The good news is that you can always connect through the app and see what the Neo sees through its dual 8MP fisheye camera eyes, although I imagine watching it do the tasks you’ve been trying to avoid can get old pretty quickly.
This is far from the first housework robot we’ve heard of this year. A few weeks ago, Figure AI introduced Figure 03, another home helper robot that likes to do laundry. Unlike Neo Home Robot, Figure 03 is not on the fast track to its abode. Instead, the initial version of Figure O3 won’t even be ready for home use.
On the other hand, the AI Figure can sit back in 2026 and watch how well or poorly Neo is doing at home before launching his own humanoid home helper.
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