1X Technologies NEO Gamma: price, specs & review
The only humanoid actually living in houses today. Soft-body design, quiet, built for safety around kids and pets.
The bottom line
Best for: Households that want a robot around people, kids, and pets as early as possible.
Price: The estimated price of the 1X Technologies NEO Gamma is $20,000 as of July 2026. 1X has discussed a price around $20,000 or a monthly subscription; final consumer pricing may differ.
Availability: In limited in-home pilot programs now — the only full-size humanoid actually living in consumer houses today.
WHERE IT WINS
- Actually deployed in real homes right now
- Soft-body, quiet design made for living spaces
- Safety-first engineering (low mass, compliant joints)
WHERE IT LOSES
- Lower payload than industrial rivals
- Pilot access is limited and regional
- Relies partly on teleoperation for hard tasks today
The full review
NEO is the only entry in this index answering the question every consumer actually asks: what is it like to have a humanoid living in my house right now? Through 1X's expanding home pilot, NEO units are doing exactly that — fetching, carrying, tidying, and monitoring in real family homes. Everything about the machine is built around that setting: at roughly 30 kg it's less than half the weight of industrial rivals, its soft-body construction turns collisions into bumps rather than injuries, and it runs quietly enough to share a living room with a sleeping baby.
The trade-offs are real and worth stating plainly. NEO's payload and raw dexterity trail warehouse machines like Figure 03 — a deliberate engineering choice, since compliant joints that are safe around children can't also be forklift-strong. And like every home humanoid in 2026, NEO leans on remote teleoperation for tasks its AI can't yet handle autonomously; 1X is unusually transparent that assisted operation doubles as training data. Pilot access is also limited and regional, so 'in homes now' doesn't yet mean 'in your home next week.'
Our read: if the goal is a robot around your people as early as possible — especially with kids, pets, or an older parent in the picture — NEO is the pick, and it isn't close. Safety-first design is the feature that matters most in a home, and NEO is the only machine proving it in production households rather than promising it on a keynote stage.