1X staff test home integrations with spare NEO heads, starting with a TV
A 1X employee shared a clip of a detached NEO head choosing and starting a film on a television after a spoken request, ahead of full robots reaching homes.
A short video from 1X employee Dar Sleeper shows a detached NEO head controlling a television. A man calls it "Dexter" and asks it to choose something to watch. The TV turns on, the head moves through its menu and starts The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Sleeper says teammates who do not yet have a full NEO robot are using heads that came out of the factory with defects to prepare their own homes for integration. The 41-second clip shows the head on a mantelpiece above a pile of books, with a spare face shell nearby and no robot body in sight.
1X has not said how the head talks to the TV. It is unclear whether the link runs over a network or another control method, or whether extra equipment is needed. The company also gave no details on supported devices, setup work or a customer release. This is an informal internal test, not a product announcement.
Why it matters
Home robots will be judged on more than chores. Understanding a request and acting through other devices in the house is part of the job, and this clip shows an early version of it.
The bigger milestone is still pending. 1X has targeted 2026 for the first NEO deliveries to customers, and with about two months left in the year, the next thing to watch is whether complete robots arrive in homes.
