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For the price of a pretty solid used Chevy Malibu, you could soon get a very new 5-foot-6-inch humanoid robot to fold your laundry. Robotics company 1X\u00a0announced\u00a0preorders for Neo, which it claims is the \u201cworld\u2019s first consumer-ready humanoid robot.\u201d<\/p>\n
For $20,000\u2014or a $499 per month rental fee and a six-month commitment\u2014the lanky robot can do simple tasks around the house, such as unloading the dishwasher and watering plants, and can answer your questions through its built-in large language model.<\/p>\n
Unlike those sharp, metal military dogs that are always doing flips, Neo has a soft body and moves slowly. The bot can carry about 55 pounds and lasts for four hours on a single charge.<\/p>\n
Is Neo ready to become the Rosie of your family?<\/strong>\u00a0Well, sometimes it falls over, and it still needs a lot of human help. In fact, all of the tasks Neo performed in a\u00a0test run\u00a0with a reporter from the Wall Street Journal weren\u2019t done autonomously. If you want Neo to do something complicated like clean the bathroom or vacuum, you\u2019ll have to let a 1X employee wearing a VR headset remotely access the body (and cameras) to assist with training.<\/p>\n Neo is watching.<\/strong>\u00a01X claims safety guardrails are in place to protect your privacy, but there\u2019s still a camera-equipped walking, talking robot in your house.\u2014MM<\/em><\/p>\n This report was originally published by <\/em>Morning Brew.<\/p>\n A version of this story was published on Fortune.com on October 30, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n #humanoid #robot #household #chores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the price of a pretty soli… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[14579,625,7890,1936,6458,763,959,951,952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More on robots:<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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