🤖Neo1 Mecha Stands 13 Feet Tall, Has Yet to Work a Single Shift

Your industrial robot dreams just got a hydraulic upgrade

Neo1 is a 13-foot hydraulic mecha built for the jobs nobody wants: heavy assembly, mining, rescue, and nuclear maintenance. It's a demo unit with serious stage presence, and that's about all it has done so far. It hasn't put in a single day on a real site. Why should you care? Because the pitch is aimed at ports, offshore oil and gas rigs, nuclear refueling, and power grid tower construction. Those are environments where robotics teams already struggle with reach, force, and reliability. Neo1 is controlled remotely by a computer running a fixed program today, and the company plans to add a battery and an AI brain later for autonomy. Walking isn't a priority, so the arms will likely go onto a wheeled base first. The specs are the headline. The mecha has 41 controllable joints, 39 of them driven by hydraulic actuators that weigh about 1 kg each and produce what the company calls ton-level continuous thrust. Stated payload is 500 kg with both arms working together. Those are vendor numbers, and nobody has verified them on a job site yet. The bigger context: Chinese companies took almost 90% of global humanoid robot sales in 2025, and Unitree alone delivered more than 5,500 humanoids to end customers. Watch for field trials at a port or mine. Until then, treat Neo1 as a strong signal of intent, not a shipping product.