Robot fashion sounds like a joke until you watch a robot stand in someone’s living room. 1X did not give its home humanoid, NEO, a costume. It gave NEO a body soft enough to share a sofa with, and then it dressed it.
A body built to be safe
NEO weighs about 30 kilograms, roughly half the weight of Tesla’s Optimus. Its frame is a head-to-toe soft body made of custom 3D-lattice polymer, not the hard shell most humanoids wear. The reason is plain. A machine that moves through a home brushes past people, pets, and furniture, and it cannot be heavy or sharp. 1X put the safety into the material itself rather than bolting it on afterward.
The suit is the point
Over that soft body, NEO wears a one-piece knit suit, offered in tan, gray, and dark brown. It is closer to clothing than to casing. The stated goal is to make NEO read like a roommate rather than a machine, to take the cold edge off something that lives where you live.
This is what robot fashion actually is. Not novelty, but the design decision that determines whether you let the thing in the door.
It is here, and it is honest about its limits
NEO is available to pre-order in the United States now, $20,000 to buy or $499 a month, with the first deliveries to homes expected in 2026. It is also candid about what it cannot do alone. For a task NEO has not mastered, an owner can schedule a remote 1X operator to guide it, so the robot learns on the job while the work still gets done.
So the household humanoid is real, it is dressed for the room, and a person is sometimes still on the other end of its hands. That is a more honest picture than any demo reel, and a more interesting one.