Story
Neo Beta was 1X's first publicly revealed bipedal humanoid: the soft-textile body, the home-friendly form factor, the early version of the bet that consumer humanoids would happen at all. The reveal in August 2024 showed Beta walking around a fake apartment, coordinating with a human, and looking — deliberately — un-industrial.
Six months later, Neo Gamma launched and Beta quietly stopped appearing in 1X's marketing. The two robots are clearly the same product line: Gamma is the iteration that took the feedback from Beta's public reception and updated the hardware. Beta was the bet that the form factor was right; Gamma was the bet that the form factor could ship. 1X has since dropped the "Gamma" suffix and markets the current product simply as Neo.
The Reality Score reflects an early demo platform with limited capability shown, salvaged from hype band by 1X's now-characteristic transparency about teleoperation. 1X does not publish a dedicated spec sheet for Beta any longer, so this profile carries no specifications panel by intent.
Reality check
Neo Beta was an early demo platform with limited capability shown. 1X has since superseded it with Neo (originally Neo Gamma) and no longer publishes detailed Beta specs.
- First public reveal of 1X's bipedal humanoid form
- 1X labelled demo footage as teleoperated where applicable
- Superseded by Neo (launched as Neo Gamma) in February 2025
- The home-deployment timing implied in the reveal video did not materialize
- 1X no longer publishes a dedicated Neo Beta product page or spec sheet