Sweater-wearing humanoid robot gets brain upgrade to clean, cook solo

1X Technologies has introduced Redwood, an advanced AI model powering its humanoid robot NEO, designed to autonomously perform complex household tasks such as laundry, door answering, and home navigation. Redwood is a 160 million-parameter vision-language model that integrates perception, locomotion, and control into a unified system running onboard NEO Gamma’s embedded GPU. This integration enables full-body coordination, allowing NEO to simultaneously control arms, legs, pelvis, and walking commands, which enhances its ability to brace against surfaces, handle higher payloads, and manipulate objects bi-manually. Redwood’s training on diverse real-world data, including both successful and failed task demonstrations, equips NEO with strong generalization capabilities to adapt to unfamiliar objects and task variations, improving robustness and autonomy even in offline or low-connectivity environments. Complementing Redwood, 1X Technologies has developed a comprehensive Reinforcement Learning (RL) controller that expands NEO’s mobility and dexterity for navigating real home environments. This controller supports fluid