1X Redwood AI
Ships as NEO's foundational autonomy; tasks it cannot do are handled by remote human teleoperation, which drew privacy criticism (https://startupfortune.com/1xs-20000-neo-robot-lets-a-company-employee-watch-inside-your-home/). NEO: $20,000 Early Access ownership or $499/month subscription, $200 refundable deposit, "US deliveries start 2026" (order page checked 2026-09-29). 1X opened its Hayward, CA NEO factory on 2026-04-30 (10,000 units targeted in year one); as of mid-July 2026 no verified customer home delivery had been reported and we found none by 2026-09-29. See also 1x-world-model (video world-model policy, Jan 2026).
- Input
- image, text, audio
- Output
- action
- License
- proprietary
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Onboard 1X NEO (consumer humanoid, preorder) | — | www.1x.tech/order | docs |
Notable capabilities (3)
- Small onboard VLA for a home humanoid: 160M-parameter vision-language transformer (language embeddings + ViT tokens + proprioception) with a diffusion-policy action decoder, running fully on NEO's embedded GPU at ~5 Hz, so it works without internet. source
- Mobile bimanual whole-body manipulation: Combines locomotion with manipulation (bending, leaning, bracing) for retrieving objects, opening doors and navigating the home; learns from both successful and failed episodes. source
- Voice control via offboard LLM: An offboard speech-to-speech LLM handles conversation and hands tasks to Redwood. source
Not callable by developers; only available as the software on a NEO robot.
Timeline entry
- 1X opens Hayward NEO factory; home humanoid production begins ★★★
On 2026-04-30 1X opened a 58,000 sq ft vertically integrated factory in Hayward, California and started production of NEO, its $20,000 home humanoid, targeting 10,000 units in 2026 and 100,000+/yr by end-2027; as of late September 2026 no customer home delivery had been confirmed publicly.