1X gives its NEO home robot faster hands for the hardest household tasks
The July 9th update puts dexterity, teleoperation and privacy back at the center of 1X's $20,000 consumer robot bet.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Wired
Why it matters
1X is trying to sell a consumer humanoid before full household autonomy is solved. The hand update makes NEO more capable, while exposing how much the product still relies on remote human supervision and customer trust.
Bernt Oivind Bornich's 1X detailed new five-finger hands for the NEO home robot on July 9th, pushing the Norwegian-American robotics maker's consumer pitch toward the part of household work that humanoid robots still struggle to do reliably: touch, grip and manipulate everyday objects.…
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