1X Teammates Use Spare NEO Heads to Test Home Integrations, Starting With the TV

A NEO head perched on a living-room mantelpiece is getting a head start on home integration—by choosing a film and putting it on the television.

In a 41-second clip shared by 1X’s Dar Sleeper, a man addresses the head as “Dexter” and asks it to pick something to watch. The TV wakes, navigates a TV interface and begins playing The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

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• Dar Sleeper shared a NEO head responding to a spoken request by selecting and starting a film on a TV.
• Sleeper says teammates are using factory-defect heads to work on home integrations before they have complete NEO robots.
• The clip does not explain the TV-control mechanism or announce a customer release for the integration.

“Teammates who don't have NEO's yet using factory defect heads to get ahead of integrating their house,” Sleeper wrote alongside the video.

The setup is decidedly informal: the detached head sits above a stack of books, with another face shell nearby. There is no robot body reaching for a remote. Instead, the demonstration connects a conversational request to an action on a household device.

Home integration before the rest of the robot

The request leaves the choice of film open. Dexter acknowledges it, the television moves through its interface, and the head confirms that the selected movie is playing. The clip presents a small example of the interaction a home robot could offer alongside physical chores: understanding a request, choosing an option and acting through another device.

Sleeper’s explanation also offers a glimpse of development work outside a complete humanoid platform. Teammates can explore the conversational and device-integration experience using heads that would otherwise not make it into finished robots.

The post does not specify whether TV commands travel over a network, use another control method or depend on additional equipment. Nor does it detail the setup work, supported devices or availability to customers. It is an informal integration demonstration rather than an announcement of a standalone NEO-head product.

Meanwhile, we are still waiting for confirmation of the first NEO deliveries to customers. 1X has long targeted 2026 for that milestone, a timetable CEO Bernt Børnich reaffirmed in the interview we covered in July. With two months left in the year, the next major update will be complete robots arriving in customers’ homes.