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NEO vs Reflex 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 Reflex 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	NEO View full model page →	Reflex View full model page →
Manufacturer	1X Technologies	Reflex Robotics
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)	$50,000 (manufacturer target)
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)	—
Brain	1X World Model (world-model) Redwood AI (foundation-model)	—
Verified deployments	3	1Reflex Robotics
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	35	11

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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.

Reflex

Reflex Robotics' Reflex is a wheeled mobile-manipulator humanoid for warehouse and logistics operations: a sub-2-foot wheeled base, dual arms (25 pounds per arm, 50 pounds combined), an adjustable spine reaching floor to high shelf, a 16-plus-hour battery, and swappable three-finger grippers with suction. The verified-vs-claimed point is the autonomy posture: Reflex is designed for teleoperated deployment with a learning-from-demonstrations path toward autonomy, not an autonomous worker today.

DEPLOY records it at pilot maturity with one verified deployment. As industrial and logistics equipment it has no consumer price, and its wheeled base distinguishes it from the bipedal-humanoid cohort.

Common questions

How do NEO and Reflex differ?

On DEPLOY's record, NEO has more verified real-world deployments (3 versus 1) than Reflex 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).

What is the difference between NEO and Reflex?

NEO and Reflex 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.

Is NEO or Reflex more autonomous?

On the DEPLOY registry, neither NEO nor Reflex 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 Reflex?

NEO has more verified deployments (3) on the DEPLOY registry than Reflex (1). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

Recent coverage

‘Ray Gunn’ Review: Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson in Brad Bird’s Forgettable Netflix Animated Neo-NoirNEO · The Hollywood Reporter · 2026-10-10
Multiple newborn deaths at public hospitals in Jalisco and Durango trigger clinical and legal investigationsNEO · Mexico News Daily · 2026-10-09
Orbital inks deal with Germany’s Reflex to build AI data centres in spaceReflex · Resilience Media · 2026-09-10
Orbital Partners with Reflex Aerospace on ODC PlatformReflex · Payload Space · 2026-09-10

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