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.
The company’s latest innovation, NEO Gamma, represents the next generation of home humanoids. This model incorporates significant improvements in both hardware and AI, featuring a design thoughtfully crafted for domestic environments.
- Natural Human Gait: NEO Gamma is equipped with a multi-purpose whole-body controller, enabling it to walk with a natural human gait and arm swings. It can also squat to pick up items and sit in chairs, thanks to dynamic control skills developed using reinforcement learning from human motion-capture data.
- Enhanced Object Manipulation: The robot boasts improved general-purpose manipulation, with a visual model capable of handling a wide variety of objects in diverse scenarios, including environments not encountered during training.
- Custom Language Model: 1X has developed an in-house language model for NEO Gamma, facilitating seamless and natural interactions between the robot and users.
- Soft Exterior Design: To ensure safety and comfort within home settings, NEO Gamma features a soft-knit suit made from 3D-printed nylon fabric, reducing the machine-like appearance and making it more suitable for domestic environments.
- Emotive Ear Rings: The robot includes Emotive Ear Rings to enhance communication, contributing to a more engaging user experience.
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.
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.