NEO Beta: More Than Just a Machine

1X’s NEO Beta takes a deliberately different path from the steel-and-servo look of industrial humanoids: a lightweight, tendon-driven design wrapped in soft materials, built to be safe and unintimidating in the home.

Designed around people

• Soft and quiet. Tendon drives and a knit exterior reduce noise and impact risk.
• Lightweight. Lower mass means lower energy in a collision — a core safety lever, the same principle behind power-and-force-limited cobots.
• Human environments first. The target is everyday domestic tasks, not cycle-time.

Industrial relevance

Even a home robot informs the factory: the safety engineering that lets a robot operate around people without cages is exactly what collaborative industrial robots have spent a decade perfecting. NEO Beta pushes that envelope toward fully unstructured environments.