1X's 10,000 NEO preorders put home robotics data to the test
Robert Scoble's claim points back to an October 2025 milestone: Bernt Oivind Bornich's home-first humanoid strategy needs deployed robots, not demo clips.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
1X's 10,000 NEO preorder claim is less a sales victory than a test of whether consumer humanoid startups can turn early homes into proprietary training data without burning trust on privacy, safety or teleoperation costs.
Robert Scoble is making the sharpest case for 1X Technologies in consumer robotics: the important number is 10,000 NEO preorders, because a fleet in early adopters' homes could give Bernt Oivind Bornich's team the kind of real-world data loop that humanoid robotics has spent years trying to manufacture in labs.