1X NEO Home Robot

A humanoid robot aimed at the home

On 28 October 2025, 1X announced NEO and described it as the world's first consumer-ready humanoid robot^[1]. The company presents it as a machine for the home rather than for a factory floor or a research lab, sold directly to individual buyers^[1]. According to the product page, NEO stands 5 ft 6 in tall and weighs 66 lbs, or about 29.94 kg^[2][1].

Body and mechanics

1X quotes a lifting capacity of 154 lbs — over 150 lbs, or roughly 68 kg — a carrying capacity of 55 lbs (24.95 kg) and an arm payload of 18 lbs^[2][1]. The shell is not a hard casing: 1X says the body is made of custom 3D lattice polymer structures, giving it a soft exterior^[1]. Each hand carries 22 degrees of freedom^[1][2]. The rest of the body is laid out as 7 degrees of freedom per arm, 3 in the neck, 2 in the spine and 6 in each leg^[2]. The listed noise level is 22 dB^[1].

Sensing, computing and movement

NEO runs on a chipset the company calls 「1X NEO Cortex (Nvidia Jetson Thor)」, with up to 2070 FP4 TFLOPS of AI compute^[2]. It sees through dual 8.85MP 90Hz stereo fisheye cameras and listens through four beamforming microphones, with WiFi, Bluetooth and 5G for connectivity^[2]. The product page lists a walking speed of 1.4 m/s and a maximum run speed of 6.2 m/s^[2]. Power comes from an 842 Wh battery rated at 4 hours of run-time, with quick charging given as 6 minutes per hour of run-time^[2].

Software and human backup

NEO uses 1X's Redwood AI vision-language model together with a built-in LLM^[1][2]. For chores it does not already know, the robot is not left to work things out alone: 1X says owners can schedule a 1X Expert to guide it through the task^[1][2]. Part of NEO's competence therefore sits outside the machine, in remote human assistance rather than in the model on board.

Price and availability

1X priced Early Access at US$20,000, with priority delivery in 2026, and said a subscription model at US$499 per month would ship later^[1]. Ordering through the product page shows a US$200 deposit^[2].

Where it sits

The numbers describe a machine shaped around rooms with people in them: a 66-pound body, 22 dB of noise, a soft lattice shell and hands with 22 degrees of freedom each^[1][2]. The two ways of buying it — a one-off US$20,000 Early Access purchase, or US$499 a month by subscription — put a general-purpose humanoid in the same price bracket as a car rather than within the reach of only industrial customers^[1]. Whether a home is a place where a humanoid can do useful work is the question the product is built around.