The Rundown Robotics: NEO’s $20,000 home bot comes with pillows:


🤖 NEO’s $20K home bot now comes with pillows
Image source: 1X
The Rundown: Humanoid maker 1X thinks you’ll warm up to robots if they come with merch. The company just dropped a “Home Collection” — pillow, hoodie, tote — all in the same beige, soft-touch aesthetic that wraps its $20K NEO robot itself.
The details:
The brand’s beige, soft-textured aesthetic is led by VP of Design, Product, and Marketing Dar Sleeper, a former Tesla product lead. By pairing robotics with tangible lifestyle products, 1X hopes to make NEO look more like a gentle companion than a machine. It’s part of a strategy to turn NEO into a lifestyle object, seeding desire for the brand long before most people ever share a home with a humanoid. 1X is rolling out a human-in-the-loop model where paying customers deploy NEO while remote operators take the wheel during tasks the bot can’t handle.
Why it matters: Most robotics companies lead with specs, but 1X is selling vibes, betting that domestic robot adoption depends less on what bots can do than on how they make people feel. Whether ensconcing a humanoid with beige-colored lifestyle goods will actually convince consumers to invite NEO home remains the ultimate test
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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