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NEO vs SE01 in 2026

Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.

Key differences

On DEPLOY's record, NEO is further along: at the pilot stage versus SE01 at the research stage, as of 2026.

  • NEO has the lower recorded price.
  • NEO has more verified real-world deployments (3 vs 1).
  • NEO is at the pilot stage; SE01 at the research stage.
Attribute
Three 1X NEO units shown side by side in light-gray, cream, and dark colorways, upper-body view.
NEOView full model page →
EngineAI SE01 campus long-distance walking test
SE01View full model page →
Manufacturer1X TechnologiesEngineAI
Form factorhumanoidhumanoid
Maturitypilotresearch
Autonomy◐ not independently verified◐ not independently verified
Availabilitypreorder-openpreorderinternal-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)$12,000-$26,000 (analyst estimate)
Capability claims
  • Tidies a room (teleoperated-assisted, demonstrated-once)
  • Fetches items (teleoperated-assisted, demonstrated-once)
  • Does dishes (teleoperated-assisted, demonstrated-once)
  • Elderly assistance (teleoperated-assisted, claimed)
  • Watches a pet (teleoperated-assisted, claimed)
  • Prepares meals (teleoperated-assisted, claimed)
  • Picks and packs (demo-only, demonstrated-once)
Brain—
Verified deployments31EngineAI
Privacy practices11Face 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 file346

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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.

SE01

EngineAI's SE01 (from EngineAI, Shenzhen) is a 32-degree-of-freedom research humanoid noted for a neural-network natural-gait walking demonstration. DEPLOY records it at research maturity with no verified deployments: the natural-gait footage is demonstration material, not evidence of autonomous deployment, and DEPLOY cap-flags aggregator framing of SE01 as 'autonomous' or commercially deployed. As a smaller-maker research platform it has no consumer price.

Common questions

How do NEO and SE01 differ?
On DEPLOY's record, NEO is further along: at the pilot stage versus SE01 at the research stage, as of 2026. NEO has the lower recorded price. NEO has more verified real-world deployments (3 vs 1). NEO is at the pilot stage; SE01 at the research stage.
What is the difference between NEO and SE01?
NEO and SE01 are both humanoid robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
Which is cheaper, NEO or SE01?
NEO has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than SE01. Prices are sourced; see each record for whether the figure is a manufacturer target, an estimate, or an actual sale price.
Is NEO or SE01 more autonomous?
On the DEPLOY registry, neither NEO nor SE01 has capabilities independently verified as fully autonomous yet; their recorded capabilities are teleoperated-assisted, demonstrated, or vendor-claimed. See the table for each capability's verification status.
Which has more verified deployments, NEO or SE01?
NEO has more verified deployments (3) on the DEPLOY registry than SE01 (1). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

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