Buying guide
NEO vs AEON in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
On DEPLOY's record, NEO has more verified real-world deployments (3 versus 1) than AEON as of 2026; DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.
- NEO has more verified real-world deployments (3 vs 1).
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | 1X Technologies | Hexagon |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | pilot | pilot |
| Autonomy | ◐ not independently verified | — |
| Availability | preorder-openpreorder | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | $499/month subscription (manufacturer target) or $20,000 (manufacturer target) or $499/month subscription (actual sale price) or $20,000 (actual sale price) | Not announced |
| Capability claims |
| — |
| Brain |
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| Verified deployments | 3 | 1Hexagon |
| Privacy practices | 11Face blurring, Restricted zones, Session approval, data-retention, third-party-sharing, data-deletion-control, data-sale, capture-indicator, bystander-recording, training-data-use, on-device-processing | — |
| Sources on file | 34 | 6 |
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Editorial summaries
NEO
1X is the only humanoid maker in this cohort betting on the consumer market at price-of-a-car scale, distinct from the enterprise-integration contracts that define Figure, Apptronik, and Agility. The hardware is verified: NEO is a bipedal humanoid shipping to early-adopter households, backed by a Hayward, California vertical-manufacturing facility, with the wheeled EVE archived as the prior product line.
The open question is utility at scale: 1X describes home-task performance today as a mix of supervised autonomy on learned chores and remote-operator teleop on the rest, an honest framing that also signals how much of the daily-use envelope is still operator-assisted.
AEON
Hexagon's AEON is an industrial humanoid robot built for factory work such as assembly lines and high-voltage EV-battery manufacturing, developed with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and the Swiss actuator maker maxon. It carries 22 sensors and self-swapping batteries (about 23 seconds) for around-the-clock operation, with a walking speed near 2.5 meters per second.
DEPLOY records it at pilot maturity with one verified deployment, at BMW Group Plant Leipzig: the honest counterpoint to aggregator 'humanoids are working in factories at scale' framing, this is a verified pilot, not commercial-at-scale. As industrial equipment sold to manufacturers, it has no consumer price.
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