In Palo Alto, California, on Oct. 28, 2025, 1X Technologies, an artificial intelligence (AI) and home robot company was proud to announce the launch of NEO, the world’s first humanoid robot designed to work at home. According to 1X Technologies, NEO does everyday chores and offers personalized assistance so people can spend more time on the things that matter like family, friends, celebrations, and more.

A few attributes about the NEO is that it operates at a noise level quieter than a modern refrigerator, and is lightweight and has fewer components which makes NEO light without compromising performance, and it has tendon-driven actuators to create safe movements. Additionally, a person can ask it anything about history, recipes, or advice and get real-time answers.

The NEO robot combines AI and advanced hardware to perform daily chores and activities. It  can share jokes, stories, and games for lively, natural conversations. Along with this, it pairs visual and spatial awareness with memory to personalize interactions. 

Redwood is the AI model that enables NEO to help around the home all while moving, perceiving, and interacting with the world autonomously. Trained on real-world experience, it handles everyday tasks like doing laundry, answering the door, and navigating smoothly through familiar spaces. Redwood mixes pre-trained language embeddings, vision tokens from a pre-trained vision transformer, and proprioception embeddings from a sequence of joint positions and joint applied forces. These are passed through  several more transformer blocks, which extract a latent representation vector. 1X Technologies decodes this representation into EVE or NEO actions using a diffusion policy.

According to 1X Technologies, Redwood is a vision-language transformer made for the humanoid form factor and capable of performing chores around the house. As NEO spends more time doing new chores across more homes, Redwood becomes more robust and versatile.