PU 8: Robotics Slop

NEO and the founder of 1X Technologies, Bernt Børnich (The Wall Street Journal)

According to the Wall Street Journal, the 1X NEO is a $20,000 robot that does your chores. The problem is that NEO is really bad at it. And the thing actually isn’t a robot, either.

Punching Upwards, Episode 8 for 2 November 2025

Topic: Technology / Artificial Intelligence

Credits

Thanks to Sir Galteran for supporting the show via Fountain.fm

Sources

1. I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. It Got Weird, The Wall Street Journal, 28 October 2025

2. NEO Home Robot, 1X Technologies

3. I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human, The Wall Street Journal, 28 October 2025

4. Cambridge Dictionary definition of the word “robot”

5. R.U.R., Wikipedia

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