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Who Actually Makes the NEO Robot — And Why People Mix It Up with Tesla

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Author: The Principle Lab Who Actually Makes the NEO Robot — And Why People Mix It Up with Tesla Short version The NEO robot is made and sold by 1X Technologies. That is what 1X itself says in the official announcement on October 28, 2025. It is a home-focused humanoid — not an automotive add-on and not a Tesla experiment. It is not a Tesla product. Tesla’s own AI & robotics page in 2025 still calls its humanoid “Optimus.” If the robot in your thumbnail is called “NEO,” you should attribute it to 1X, not to Tesla. Why people get confused  In late 2025, two things happened at once: 1X showed a good-looking, household-scale humanoid called NEO, and Tesla kept posting progress videos of Optimus. Both are tall, both are bipedal, both talk about “doing chores or repetitive tasks.” When someone then drops a Tesla logo and a real NEO photo into the same frame — exactly what you ...
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How Multimodal Models Power Real Apps — Search, Docs, and Meetings

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Author: The Principle Lab How Multimodal Models Power Real Apps — Search, Docs, and Meetings If you’ve wondered howmultimodal” turns into something you can actually use at work, this is the practical map. We’ll walk a scenario from the first user action to the last model call, and point out where tool calls, enterprise search, and meeting transcripts plug in. The focus is on how things are wired under the hood , not hype. Scenario: one workday, three touchpoints Picture a knowledge worker’s morning flow. They open the company portal and search for a policy (search app). Later, they ask an assistant to summarize a PDF and extract a few fields (docs app). In the afternoon, they need decisions and action items from a project call (meetings app). A modern assistant can span all three because it accepts text plus other inputs and can call tools for retrieval. That’s the entire idea behind a multimodal + tool-using pipeline . Timeline — what actually fires (0 → 1 → 2)...
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What Can a NEO Home Robot Do?

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Author: The Principle Lab What Can a NEO Home Robot Do?  Why people care in 2025 If you’ve ever wished for steady help with everyday chores, this is the moment when a humanoid designed for homes actually ships to consumers. The short version: a NEO home robot automates routine tasks and offers personalized assistance so you can focus on what matters. What makes it interesting is the mix of autonomy and learning. Early customers get foundational autonomy on day one, and the robot gains skills over time. That’s the practical lens we’ll use here—what it can do today, how it learns, and where the boundaries are. How the system actually works Under the hood, NEO pairs a built-in large language model for conversation with Redwood AI , a vision-language model tailored for mobile manipulation in home spaces. In practice, that means it can understand what you a...
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