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NEO 1X Technologies · Norway / USA · 2025
A soft, quiet humanoid designed to live in your home — the first serious consumer humanoid.
NEO is built for homes, not factories: a soft knitted-textile exterior, tendon-driven actuation quieter than a refrigerator, and a weight low enough to be safe around children. 1X, backed by OpenAI and NVIDIA, started delivering NEO to early US households, where it tidies, does laundry and learns chores through teleoperation-assisted autonomy.
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Official website ↗ ▸ SpecificationsClass & build
Form factor Bipedal home humanoid
Generation NEO (2025) Functionality Bipedal walking Dexterous hands Autonomous navigation Voice interaction Teleoperation Obstacle avoidance
Primary function Household chores & assistance
Manipulation 1X Tendon Drive hands (announced 9 July 2026): 25 DoF — 22 actuated in fingers and palm, 3 in the wrist; motors in the forearm, gear ratios about 5:1–15:1, every axis force-controlled and backdrivable; ±0.2 mm placement, up to 45 N distal force, IP68 and washable
Human interaction Voice; soft, quiet, child-safe
Operating environment Home; indoor Physical
Height / size 168 cm
Weight 30 kg
Degrees of freedom —
Payload —
Reach / workspace —
Max speed ~1.2 m/s Power
Power source Li-ion battery
Battery capacity —
Runtime ~4 h
Charging / swap Wired recharge Sensing & intelligence
Sensor suite Cameras and microphones; high-resolution tactile sensing on the fingertips of the 2026 hands, measuring normal force, contact location and shear, so a slipping object can be re-gripped
Onboard compute Onboard inference
AI system 1X world model + teleop-assisted autonomy
Autonomy level Teleop-assisted autonomy Deployment & market
Safety & compliance < 40 dB; low mass; soft knit exterior
Availability & price Early consumer deliveries (US) Compiled to the wujec.ai Spec Standard v1 — “—” means not publicly disclosed.