Figure 03 vs NEO Home Robot: Home Humanoids Compared

Choose Figure 03 if you want the stronger sensing hardware, a 5-hour runtime and hands-free wireless charging, and a robot that Figure AI also designed for workplaces. Choose NEO Home Robot if you want a light, quiet, soft-bodied helper with big stated lift numbers, a 1.4 m/s walking speed and hands built to survive water. Figure 03 is the more technical platform, with palm cameras and fingertip touch sensors. NEO is the more openly specified one, with its lift, carry, speed and safety figures printed on the maker's page.

Figure 03 runs 5 hours on a 2.3 kWh battery, while NEO Home Robot runs 4 hours on 842 Wh. That is one extra hour for Figure 03 from a battery almost three times larger. Figure 03 also charges without a cable: coils in its feet let it step onto a mat and charge at 2 kW. 1X lists a quick charge of 6 minutes per hour of runtime for NEO. In a busy home, the wireless mat means Figure 03 can top up on its own between jobs.

NEO Home Robot has hands with 22 degrees of freedom each (separate directions a joint can move), and they are rated IP68, so they can be submerged in water. Figure 03 takes a different route: each palm holds a camera, and its in-house fingertip sensors can feel as little as 3 grams of pressure, about a paperclip. NEO's hands suit wet, messy chores. Figure 03's hands are tuned for delicate grabs, because the palm camera keeps watching when the head cameras are blocked, for example inside a cabinet.

Both robots were designed with a soft outer shell, but they get there differently. Figure 03 uses multi-density foam over pinch points and washable soft textile covers, and its battery has passed the UN38.3 transport safety test. NEO Home Robot has a polymer lattice body with no pinch points, low-inertia tendon drives that move with little force, and a head injury score (HIC, a crash-test measure where lower is safer) below 250. Neither maker lets you skip normal care: both robots also have an emergency stop.

NEO Home Robot states its limits plainly: it lifts 154 lb (69.8 kg), carries 55 lb (25 kg) and holds 18 lb (8 kg) with each arm. Those are large numbers for a robot that weighs only 66 lb. Figure AI puts its emphasis elsewhere. Figure 03 has actuators that run twice as fast with better torque for their weight, which the maker says helps it pick and place items faster. If raw carrying power matters most, NEO gives you numbers you can check. If speed of handling matters most, Figure 03 is the one to watch.

NEO Home Robot walks at 1.4 m/s and has a stated top running speed of 6.2 m/s. Figure AI does not state a walking or running speed for Figure 03 on its launch page. It speaks about hand and arm speed instead: the actuators work at twice the speed of the previous generation. So the two robots are measured differently. For crossing a room quickly, NEO has the published figure. For quick work at the counter, Figure 03's faster actuators are the claim to look at.

Figure 03 relies on Helix, an AI that links vision, language and action. Its cameras run at twice the frame rate with a quarter of the delay, and a 10 Gbps wireless link lets the whole fleet upload data so every robot can learn. NEO Home Robot also learns from its owner, but in the early period it leans on remote 1X operators. In a Wall Street Journal test, its tasks were done by a person controlling it from afar. 1X says it blurs faces, lets owners set no-go zones and lets them schedule when an operator may connect.

NEO Home Robot is quiet, at 22 dB, which 1X compares to a modern fridge, and its 5 ft 6 in, 66 lb build is easy to manage in a small home. Figure 03 has a different kind of comfort. Its soft goods are washable and come off without tools, and you can dress it in different clothing. Its speaker is twice the size of Figure 02's and nearly four times as powerful, so speech is easier to hear. NEO is gentler and quieter, while Figure 03 is easier to clean and customize.

Both robots target the home first, but their makers aim wider in different ways. Figure AI designed Figure 03 for mass production at its BotQ factory, which can build up to 12,000 robots a year, and says the same hardware suits commercial work, with screens on its sides for fleet identification. 1X Technologies focuses NEO Home Robot on households, with a companion app, chore scheduling and elder assistance in mind. If you also want a robot a workplace could use, Figure 03 is the closer fit. For a home first, NEO is built around it.