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.

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and ...