Introducing NEO Gamma

NEO Gamma is the next generation of home humanoids designed and engineered by 1X Technologies. The Gamma series includes improvements across NEO’s hardware and AI, featuring a new design that is deeply considerate of life at home.

Key improvements

Consumer-friendly domestic design
NEO Gamma's new design features Emotive Ear Rings to improve the communication and has a minimalist design aesthetic that fits into the home.

Multipurpose whole-body controller
NEO can now walk with a natural human gait and arm swings, squat down to pick things up from the ground and sit in chairs.

Soft covers improve safety
NEO Gamma comes outfitted with soft covers to reduce impact on the surrounding environment and increase overall safety.

Improved general-purpose manipulation
1X trained a visual manipulation model capable of picking up a large variety of objects in different scenarios, including environments not seen during training.

1X developed language model
NEO Gamma’s Companion feature set integrates a new in-house language model that enables natural conversation and body language.

NEO Gamma’s design opens the door to start internal home testing—a first step in creating fully autonomous humanoids.

Message from Bernt Børnich (CEO)

“There is a not-so-distant future where we all have our own robot helper at home, like Rosey the Robot or Baymax. But for humanoid robots to truly integrate into everyday life, they must be developed alongside humans, not in isolation.

The home provides real-world context and the diversity of data needed for humanoids to grow in intelligence and autonomy. It also teaches them the nuances of human life—how to open the door for the elderly, move carefully around pets, or adapt to the unpredictability of the surrounding world. Robots confined to industrial space or lab development miss out on this critical understanding.

With NEO Gamma, every engineering and design decision was made with one goal in mind: getting NEO into customers’ homes as quickly as possible… We’re close. We can’t wait to share more soon.”

Artificial intelligence

NEO Gamma introduces a number of AI advancements, enhancing both autonomy and safe teleoperation in the home.

Multipurpose whole-body controller
NEO now walks with a natural human gait and arm swings, squat down to pick things up from the ground and sit in chairs, all while maintaining balance. These dynamic control skills – running at 100Hz – are learned using Reinforcement Learning from human motion capture data. This range of motion allows NEO Gamma to experience household scenarios and tasks that would be otherwise inaccessible to other robot form factors.

Improved general-purpose manipulation
1X trained a visual manipulation model capable of picking up a large variety of objects in different scenarios, including environments not seen during training. NEO Gamma leverages neural networks trained to predict teleoperated actions directly from raw sensor data.

1X developed language model
NEO Gamma’s Companion feature set integrates a conversational voice interface, allowing users to converse naturally with a 1X developed language model (LLM). These developments bring NEO closer to human-friendly user interaction, bridging the gap between humanoid robotics and daily life.

Design

NEO Gamma is designed to be approachable, with all new features created to integrate seamlessly into people’s everyday lives. NEO’s new look aims to complement living spaces rather than disrupt them.

Emotive Ear Rings
NEO Gamma’s Ear Rings provide real-time visual feedback for a more intuitive and interactive experience.

NEO’s Knit Suit & Shoes
3D printed from durable and soft nylon using a Japanese Shimaseki machine, the suit utilizes a unique whole-garment seamless knitting process that allows the fabric to conform to NEO without impeding performance.

Soft Covers
With safety as the top priority, NEO Gamma features 1X’s Tendon Drive for joint actuation, encased in soft covers to enhance passive safety.

Hardware

NEO Gamma features significant hardware upgrades, making it quieter, more reliable, and well suited to deliver a consumer product experience.

Quieter and more reliable
NEO Gamma boasts a 10x increase in hardware reliability and a 10 dB decrease in noise, bringing NEO’s operating levels down to the level of a refrigerator.

Consumer grade audio experience
NEO Gamma features four microphones (front, back, left, and right) with beamforming and echo cancellation, ensuring crystal-clear audio capture and A three-speaker system—one in the chest for AI voice interactions and two outward-facing speakers in the pelvis for bass, 360-degree sound effects, and music.