1X's NEO gets 25-DOF hands while autonomy remains the hard part
Bernt Bornich's home-robot bet now has stronger hardware, but 1X still relies on Expert Mode for complex chores.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Aligned News - AI Intelligence
Why it matters
1X is pushing home humanoids before autonomy is finished. The new hands may remove a real hardware limit, but Expert Mode shows the product still depends on humans for hard tasks.
Bernt Bornich built 1X around a blunt thesis: a humanoid robot has to live around people to become useful, and 1X has now upgraded NEO, its home robot, with tendon-driven hands that bring the hardware closer to the human tasks it has been promising.…