NEO Targets Household Robotics Market
1X Technologies
Moving from EVE to NEO is really a shift from selling labor to businesses, to selling help inside the home. EVE works best on flat, controlled routes like patrolling hallways or moving items through facilities. NEO is built for messy domestic spaces where the robot must climb stairs, open doors, pick up unfamiliar objects, respond to voice commands, and fit comfortably around people, which makes household chores, elder care, and companionship possible categories instead of edge cases.
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EVE already has a concrete enterprise workflow. Operators watch live 360 degree video in a browser dashboard and step in when needed for security patrols and facility tasks. That model works in warehouses and campuses, but not for kitchens, bedrooms, and multi floor homes where movement and object handling matter more than route following.
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NEO is not just bipedal, it is packaged as a home product. 1X says NEO can retrieve objects, open doors, learn chores through Redwood, take voice requests, and be managed through a mobile app, with preorders at $20,000 or $499 per month. That turns robotics into a consumer purchase and subscription instead of a fleet sale.
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This also changes who 1X competes with. Agility and many humanoid peers are proving value in warehouses and manufacturing, while 1X is pushing earlier into domestic use. The closest strategic parallel inside humanoids is Figure testing household applications, but most deployments today across the category still center on industrial work where environments are simpler and ROI is easier to measure.
The next step is turning home access into repeated software learning. Every task NEO performs in real apartments and houses gives 1X more data on how people actually live, which should make Redwood better and widen the gap between a robot that can demo a task and one that can become a dependable household worker.