Enter NEO, a humanoid robot created by 1X, an artificial intelligence and robotics company based in Palo Alto, California.

X Technologies is taking orders for a robotic household helper it thinks could change the world. Neo’s first chore? Learning how to do its job.

X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?

Robotics company 1X Technologies (1XT), which secured $100 million in funding from OpenAI, EQT Ventures, and others in 2024, unveiled a bipedal humanoid robot, Neo Beta, last year.

Joint research collaboration enables the Atlas humanoid robot to achieve autonomous whole-body manipulation and locomotion behaviors using Large Behavior Models The video shows the humanoid using ...

I’ve been teaching robotics at the University of Washington for more than a decade. Every class begins with “robotics news of the week.” For years, humanoid robots appeared only occasionally—usually ...

The price tag is orders of magnitude cheaper than most robots in its class, which can run into tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now China’s Unitree Robotics, best known for its nimble ...