The NEO Humanoid Robot Just Stunned The AI Industry (1x Tech NEO Humanoid Robot)

So, OnX Robotics just introduced their

new AI humanoid robot companion, and we

have to talk about it.

So, this is the new robot that was just

released, and it's honestly taken over

Twitter in the last 24 hours. I've seen

many different comments, many different

statements, and I have to say, by far,

this is once again one of the most

impressive humanoid robots for a number

of different features. I mean, it's

incredible. It's engineered to perform

everyday chores, personalized

assistance, and leverage real world data

to continuously improve its

capabilities. Now, I think most people

are underestimating the impact of this

because they don't realize the

significance of a humanoid robot that is

home ready, but in this video, I'm

actually going to try and communicate

that to you as best as possible. So,

what I will do is I will play for you

guys the first section of the video and

then I can dive into the seven sections

that are the most important for

understanding truly why this is such an

impactful release. Neo was engineered

from the ground up for safety. Its

tendon-driven body is quiet and

lightweight. Its low energy motions make

it uniquely safe for you and your home.

But safe doesn't mean limited. Neo's

hardware comes packed with features like

human level dexterity and a 55lb

carrying capacity so that can handle any

of your chores reliably. We also worked

really hard to make Neo's design

friendly and comfortable to be around.

Each Neo comes with a machine washable

knit suit, a head, and shoes that you

can customize to fit your style. As for

using your Neo, we made the experience

simple. Out of the box, the core of your

experience is fully autonomous. The

chores feature lets you schedule a time

for your Neo to do all of your chores so

you can come back to a cleaner home

every day. With the AI companion

feature, you can talk to your Neo to get

assistance with anything from a hard

question to a household task. With Neo's

autonomy, you can get access to all of

its latest AI features to get help with

tasks on demand. And the Neo app lets

you interact with your Neo from

anywhere, but all you have to do to get

started is turn on your Neo and

introduce yourself. So, one of the first

features is essentially called chores.

Now, what chores allows you to do is

have the Neo to perform specific

household tasks on demand according to a

set schedule. You know, you can assign

chores through a mobile app, voice

command, or preset routines. And typical

chores involve tidying rooms, folding

laundry, carrying items, watering

plants, and even operating appliances.

So yes, that means it can operate any

machine that you'd like. Now, what's

really cool is that even if it doesn't

know how to, you know, really, really,

really do your strange and weird

machines, you can have an expert pop in

and telly operate the task it hasn't

mastered yet, which essentially just

means that a human can, you know,

control the robot from a facility and it

will be able to get the task done. So,

what's really cool about that is that

the system manages to learn over time

when a human operator helps with a new

task and then Neo can practice and

eventually automate that task for future

requests. And I think it's really cool

because you not only have a robot that's

able to learn over time. Imagine when

you have this really strange issue and

the robot is able to solve it remarkably

quickly because someone else who had a

neo robot also encountered the same

issue. And one of the things I think is

really cool is that, you know, once your

robot is doing all of these chores, you

can literally just pop out your phone,

see what it's doing while you're out at

maybe your, you know, dinner or it is

whatever it is you're doing, maybe

you're at work, and you can see

literally what your Neo is getting up

to. And another thing as well is that it

has selfcharge enabled. Now, on the

website, it didn't really have much

information on the runtime, but I was

able to find a tweet from Eric Jang, who

works on the AI at 1x Tech, and

essentially he said that the robot does

charge quickly, and the goal is to

minimize the time spent charging versus

the time working, and that in-home

charger is never far away. So, I'm

guessing that the robot doesn't have a

ridiculous amount of runtime. And the 2

to 4 hour thing, I really don't think

it's as bad as most people think. Now,

here's where we have companion mode,

which is really cool because this moves

the robot from just an actual, you know,

cleaner or someone who does your laundry

to an actual friend and an actual

helper. And I think this is pretty

useful for a variety of different use

cases that I will talk about later on in

the video. But I think this demo is

relatively useful for showing you what

the future of AI human collaboration

will be on a completely different level.

Everyone talks about AI human

collaboration at work and what they're

going to do for the economy. But what

about those tasks that are simple? The

ones that are in your home or your house

where you know you do need a little bit

of help and an AI could easily easily

help you with that situation. Take a

look at the first section of this

because I think that this is something

that most people will find is genuinely

a pleasant surprise.

>> I can't seem to find my glasses. Is this

paprika?

>> No, that's cayenne pepper. Also, your

glasses are on your shirt.

>> Could I use this in my chili?

>> They're both made from chili peppers,

and you could put cayenne in your chili,

but it is much spicier.

>> Neo is a speech enabled AI companion

made for any kind of conversation. Where

other AI assistants are confined to your

phone or computer, Neo lives with you in

your physical space, and has the ability

to see, hear, and remember things about

your surrounding environment to provide

you with uniquely helpful assistance.

For example, it can suggest what to cook

based on what you have in the fridge,

remember your progress while teaching

you new language, and even give you

interior design advice. The gestures and

the light rings express Neo's

intentions. Its audio intelligence can

also pick up on whether you are

addressing it or someone else in the

room to decide if it should respond or

not. As you might expect from a home

robot, talking to Neo with natural

language is the primary user interface

for all of Neo's functionality,

including autonomy.

>> Now, what I really like about 1X's Neo

is the fact that they've been really

intentional with their design. We can

see that Neo is really soft in how it's

built. I mean, if you look at other

humanoid robots, they are mechanical.

They've got visible joints, rigid

frames, and 1X took the complete

opposite approach. They essentially went

internal. Instead of building a robot

that looks human, they built one that

actually feels human to interact with.

It has these soft edges, the quiet

motors, a very gentle grip. So when Neo

reaches out to help someone, there's no

jarring sound. There's no cold metal.

It's motion that feels safe. So that,

you know, internal design philosophy

allows Neo to exist comfortably in

homes, hospitals, and care centers,

which is exactly the kind of space where

people need the trust and not the

tension. Now, you have to understand

that there are people with mobility

challenges and even the smallest tasks

can become daily obstacles. Picking up

dropped items, carrying groceries,

opening doors. Neo was trained using

reinforcement learning and human

demonstration to perform those actions

naturally, not like a machine, but like

a companion. And those built-in sensors

allowed for fine-tuned pressure control,

meaning it can hold a glass of water as

carefully as it can lift a heavy object.

And with its built-in, you know, visual

recognition system and AI decision

system, it can really easily identify

when someone needs help even without

being asked. And another thing that you

might miss is that they didn't stop at

the physical design. Of course, they

focus deeply on the communication. The

speech interface is warm and responsive,

and it's actually built to interpret

natural human language, tone, and

emotion. For people with speech

impairments or cognitive challenges, Neo

adapts not just responding to words, but

to patterns and gestures. And this is

subtle empathy. And it's not synthetic.

It's intentional. And that's why I

believe that this product is truly truly

revolutionary. It's probably the gold

standard for what will be a

multi-billion dollar industry. Now, this

is where we take a look at the full

autonomous mode. Now, autonomous mode

uses Redwood AI to let Neo operate

independently navigating manipulating

objects, and performing complex

multi-step tasks without human guidance.

The robot uses its vision language

action model and reinforcement learning

to assess its environment, plan actions,

and dynamically adjust movements for

cleaning fetching organizing and

more. And in this mode, Neo can move

throughout the house, avoid obstacles,

handle unexpected scenarios, and even

generalize to entirely new situations.

And as it learns, it continuously

improves its performance at real world

chores and interaction by uploading data

for ongoing model refinement, closing

the autonomy gap with each deployment.

And these modes make Neo so flexible.

You've got full autonomy, AI companion

mode, and you've got the chores mode.

Take a listen to what they say because I

think once again this is, you know,

where we have essentially that

exponential. Robots are going to be in

homes collecting data. They improve and

the entire fleet becomes more effective

over time.

>> Your Neo comes with Redwood AI, enabling

it to do basic household tasks

autonomously.

>> Yeah. No, for sure. Okay. One sec. All

right. Yeah.

>> Hey, Neo, can you get the door, please?

>> Neo's autonomy works by taking requests

like,

>> "Hey, Neo, can you take this cup to the

sink for me?" and breaking it down into

simple steps such as walking to the

person, grabbing the cup, and then

walking the cup to the kitchen, and then

putting it away. Neo's autonomy improves

with diverse data and real world

experience. As Neo does more chores,

you'll receive updates to your Redwood

model that increase the complexity of

tasks that Neo can handle, such as

finding your keys and wallet or doing a

full laundry cycle end to end.

Eventually, Neo will become fully

autonomous, capable of helping you with

anything around the house. The Neo you

get today will only get better and as we

keep shipping features, it'll be more

and more useful in your everyday life.

Now, if you want to know more about this

Redwood AI, it's really cool because

it's actually their breakthrough vision

language transformer. It's actually

customuilt for their neohumoid to

achieve real world autonomy in household

environments. Essentially, Redwood AI

merges vision language understanding and

whole body manipulation into a single

neural model. has about 160 million

parameters and runs fully on board Neo's

embedded GPU, enabling privacy, low

latency, and offline action execution.

Even if verbal commands still rely on

cloud for processing, it fuses vision

tokens from cameras, language

embeddings, and prop prior, which are

joint and force data for an integrated

understanding of the robot's physical

space and commands. And this Redwood AI

essentially empowers Neo to perform

end-to-end mobile manipulation, fetching

objects from new or unseen locations,

opening doors, and the model is able to

generalize to novel subjects and spatial

arrangements, not just memorizing

scenarios from the training data. And

what's really cool about this is that

each deployed Neo acts as a real-time

data factory. And one of the things that

I know people will say is that is this

thing fully autonomous? Is this thing,

you know, doing all the tasks by itself?

And honestly, that isn't entirely true.

This is a later point, but I'm going to

bring it up now. One of the issues,

maybe not issues, but one of the things

is that these Neo bots, a lot of the

time in those scenarios where you're

going to have an expert mode, people are

going to have privacy concerns. Number

one, because, you know, you're going to

have someone else who's able to see

inside your house. You know, I mean, I'm

all for privacy and of course, a random

person. and you don't know who they are.

They're just in an office somewhere

controlling a robot and now they are in

your house and they're able to pretty

much do anything that the robot can

realistically physically do. That is of

course a privacy concern because you

know you might be doing something. Now

of course you will have to approve this

privacy mode, this expert mode and

enable this person. But I think another

reason that there are, you know, these

privacy concerns is because in areas

where the robot may fail or, you know,

there might be some catastrophic failure

where they need to intervene, people are

wondering how that data is going to be

stored if they're, of course, going to

be using that to train other fleets.

Now, this is a very valid concern. We do

know that many, many tech companies in

the past haven't been able to really

secure our data and have even sold it in

some extreme cases. So people are

wondering how that is, but they have

actually cleared this up on the website

and they have said that for example,

Neo's emotive earrings will change to a

color while the expert operator is

active and owners have full control over

each session. And you know, the experts

are not some random people in some, you

know, random office. They're fully

verified 1x employees that are

physically present in the USA. and the

fact that Neo works without the need for

data sharing in autonomous mode. And in

an autonomous mode, limited sensor data

might be sent to their servers to

fulfill a request. So, it isn't stored.

And of course, you're able to opt out

for sharing and improving Neo's

performance. So, when you see these

demos of the robots being teleyoperated,

which is essentially being controlled by

another human, you might think that hm

are we being sold something that is, I

guess you could say, maybe not a scam,

but maybe too good to be true. I guess I

wouldn't say so. I haven't actually used

the robot yet, so I wouldn't know. But I

do say I'm extremely optimistic for

this. Now, another thing that you may be

wondering is how much does this robot

cost? Well, the robot costs around

$20,000 for early access or you can wait

for the standard roll out in I think

mid2026

for $499

per month. Now, that's fascinating

because most humanoid robots are

ridiculously expensive and they don't

come with as nearly as much features as

this kind of robot. So, for the price,

you are getting an absolute steal. Now,

this isn't a sponsored video, but

honestly, $499 for a robot that can

basically act as a second helper around

the house that has access to onboard

cuttingedge AI is able to help you pick

things around. I mean, it will seem like

a no-brainer for certain care homes and

the elderly, especially since a lot of

those tasks are physically demanding.

And I do think that this is actually a

pretty good thing because if this was

too expensive, then maybe the people who

needed this the most wouldn't be able to

afford it. So, I'm actually glad that

they're able to price this effectively

so that consumers can get their hands on

this because honestly, some of the other

humanoid robots, I've seen them and

they're like $250,000,

$100,000. And I understand robotics is

extremely expensive. So, to be able to

produce this at scale is a remarkable

feat. So, let me know what you think

about the 1x humanoid robotics. I think

it's actually pretty interesting. I

think most people are underestimating

just how important this is. And I think

this is probably kicked off a very

interesting area where humanoid robots

are going to be in the house. Most

people have seen humanoid robots in the

factories and that's of course the big

juicy application for all of these tech

companies. But in the home, it's going

to be a super niche market that I think

soft body robots are going to completely

dominate.