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Did those NEO orders ever actually ship?

Keerthana Gopalakrishnan answered a friendly post about bringing NEO to India with one question: did you ship last year's orders? Quiet Sunday otherwise, plus a small fight over whether controllers still matter.

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Gopalakrishnan asks whether last year's NEO orders were ever shipped

Keerthana Gopalakrishnan replied to a post by @radbackwards about wanting NEO in India by asking whether the units ordered last year were actually delivered. It is a one-line question, with no answer from him in the thread so far. Order counts and delivery counts are the number the humanoid field keeps avoiding.

Keerthana Gopalakrishnan
@keerthanpg
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did you even ship the units you look orders for last year?
Oct 10, 2026 · View on X

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One new controller folded more boxes than the model ever had

Neil Nie says his team's controls engineer wrote a new controller and that change alone let an ablated version of their model fold and stack a whole pile of boxes back to back, more than any single trial before.

Neil Nie
@neil_nie_
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More boxes than we've ever managed to fold in a single trial.
Oct 10, 2026 · View on X

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