OpenDroids Beats 1X’s Neo in Real-World Dishwashing Test — at Twice the Speed and a Fraction of the Funding
San Francisco, CA – Nov, 2025 – OpenDroids, a robotics startup focused on practical home and workplace automation, today announced that its humanoid robot has completed a full dishwasher-loading task roughly twice as fast as 1X Technologies’ Neo robot, despite operating on around 1/100 of the capital raised by its better-funded competitor. In a recent side-by-side kitchen demonstration, OpenDroids’ robot and Neo were each tasked with loading a standard dishwasher with dishes from a countertop and sink. Under comparable conditions, the OpenDroids unit
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