When robotics firm Unitree made its G1 humanoid robot available for sale last year, it probably didn’t imagine someone ...

Enter NEO, a humanoid robot created by 1X, an artificial intelligence and robotics company based in Palo Alto, California.

Initial hype for the 1X NEO cooled after demos showed the robot was still fully tele-operated, sparking skepticism online.

Robotics company 1X Technologies (1XT), which secured $100 million in funding from OpenAI, EQT Ventures, and others in 2024, unveiled a bipedal humanoid robot, Neo Beta, last year.

Researchers have developed a chemical structure for an artificial muscle that can lift up to 4,000 times its weight, and they ...