{"id":697,"date":"2025-10-30T07:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zestyfinds.net\/technology\/?p=697"},"modified":"2025-10-30T07:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:23:10","slug":"i-tried-the-first-humanoid-home-robot-it-got-weird-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zestyfinds.net\/technology\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. It Got Weird. | WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f3c4mQty_so\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 1X Neo is one of the first humanoid robots built for your home and is equipped with full AI software. For $20,000, you can pre-order X1\u2019s Neo now with delivery set for 2026. 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In creative and humorous videos, WSJ senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern explains and reviews the products, services and trends that are changing our world.<\/p>\n<p>#Tech #AI #WSJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1X Neo is one of the first humanoid robots built for your home and is equipped with full AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/zestyfinds.net\/technology\/?p=697\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. 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