Neo’s new robot can vacuum, do your dishes, and take out the trash. But will it also take your job? 

Yesterday, 1X launched the Neo. This android is powered by a mix of AI and teleoperation. 

You can order one now on their website for $500 a month. 1X plans to ship in 2026. 

Neo is designed to help with household tasks. But if it can tidy up your place, how long until it can work in a factory or warehouse?

Here are the jobs Neo is most likely to replace and the jobs that will be hardest to automate…

Housekeepers: Toast

Neo is primarily designed to help in the home. So the first jobs to go will be house and office cleaning.

Office cleaning is particularly vulnerable. I may not want an android in my bedroom, but I won’t mind one tidying up the office at midnight when I’m not there. 

AI will guide the Neo for some tasks. For others, a human abroad will teleoperate the robot. 

Let’s say Neo gets its remote workers from Bangladesh. The average wage there is less than $1 an hour. Americans can’t compete.

Assembly Line Workers: Toast

If the Neo can do simple manual tasks in the home, it can do them in a factory too.

Factory workers who do repetitive tasks are going to be out of a job. Even if AI can’t do the task, the teleoperator in Bangladesh can. 

More complex jobs like maintenance and engineering are probably safe for now. But lower level workers should be retraining, today.

Warehouse Workers: Toast

Even before the Neo launch, Amazon was talking about replacing most of its warehouse workers with robots. Now, it’s a sure thing.

Warehouses can be complex places. Boxes and products come in all shapes and sizes. 

AI may struggle to pick products effectively. But with just a little training, our Bangladeshi teleoperator will be up to the task.

Amazon warehouse workers make around $20 an hour. You can bet Andy Jassy would love to get that down to a buck. 

Healthcare Workers: Safe

Healthcare will be one of the hardest sectors to automate.

A good friend of mine is an EMT. He makes over $80,000 a year in a low cost city in the Midwest. The job required just a 6 month program that cost $1,200.

His job is multifaceted. He takes vitals, drives the ambulance, consoles distraught patients, and a lot more.

The work requires a lot of interpersonal skill and flexibility. Neither a robot nor a worker in a developing country will be able to do it any time soon.

Healthcare is also one of the most highly regulated industries. Even if the robot could do his job, regulations won’t allow it! 

What’s true for EMT’s is true for doctors, nurses, Physician’s Assistants, Respiratory Therapists and more. If you want a steady paycheck that’s highly resistant to automation, there’s no better place to be. 

Wrap-Up

The Neo is an incredible breakthrough. Watching the demo got me really excited!

But make no mistake: robots like Neo will put millions of people out of work.

There will be new jobs. But the lesson of the factory closures of my youth is that the displaced workers won’t qualify for them.

Bottom line: we’re going to see a lot of unemployed, angry people. 

I’m not sure how society will handle that. But I don’t think we can stop it.

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