1X Technologies Timeline

Events

• 2026-07-09 - Production Milestone - 1X reports hundreds of NEO hands produced on line rated for 10,000 in 2026 - 1X said hundreds of hands had already come off its dedicated scalable production line. The company stated that the line has capacity to produce 10,000 hands in 2026; this is production capacity, not confirmed output. The tendon-driven NEO hand has 25 degrees… - source: 1x.tech
• 2026-07-02 - Executive Hire - 1X appoints Bill Nash as chief financial officer - Bill Nash joined 1X after serving as chief financial officer at Ursa Major and Cruise. 1X said Nash will lead its finance organization as the company scales NEO manufacturing and commercialization. The appointment was announced on July 2, 2026. - source: 1x.tech
• 2026-06-25 - Executive Hire - 1X appoints Tom Sanocki as VP of Engineering - Tom Sanocki joins 1X as VP of Engineering after engineering leadership roles at Roblox and Meta Horizon Worlds. His remit includes the software roadmap as 1X advances NEO from prototypes toward consumer products. The appointment supports 1X’s… - source: 1x.tech
• 2026-06-24 - Market Signal - 1X accelerates plans to deliver NEO to developers - Børnich said 1X would accelerate plans to deliver NEO to developers and would provide dates and specifics later. He positioned NEO as a safe, affordable and capable humanoid development platform for researchers and robotics startups. Børnich said the… - source: x.com
• 2026-06-04 - Market Signal - 1X launches World Model Lab for embodied foundation-model pretraining - 1X launched the 1X World Model Lab to focus on large-scale embodied world-model pretraining for humanoid robots. The lab is led by Sam Sinha, who previously worked on large-scale multimodal generative foundation models at Luma AI. 1X said the lab will… - source: forbes.com
• 2026-04-30 - Facility Opening - 1X brings NEO Factory online in Hayward, California - The Hayward facility commenced full-scale NEO production with more than 200 employees. 1X said it designs and manufactures critical components in-house, including motors, batteries, structures, transmissions, soft goods and sensors; its latest NEO iteration… - source: 1x.tech
• 2026-03-17 - Capability - 1X details NVIDIA compute and vision stack for NEO - Jetson Thor runs NEO multimodal models locally for low-latency perception, reasoning and control. NVIDIA Argus processes camera data within NEO perception stack for low-latency visual inference. 1X uses Blackwell HGX B200 GPUs to train robot foundation… - source: 1x.tech
• 2026-01-12 - Research Publication - 1X Technologies Unveils NEO's World Model for Enhanced Robot Learning - 1XWM leverages video pretraining to enhance NEO's understanding of physical dynamics and object interactions. The model allows NEO to generalize actions across novel tasks and unseen objects, improving its adaptability. A two-stage training process aligns… - source: 1x.tech
• 2026-01-09 - Executive Hire - 1X hires Mohi Khansari to lead robot learning - 1X announced Mohi Khansari as Head of Robot Learning. The appointment put Khansari in charge of robot-learning strategy, model work, and policy development for humanoid autonomy. 1X is a humanoid robotics company developing NEO, a soft, tendon-driven home… - source: 1x.tech
• 2025-12-11 - Partnership - 1X supplies 10,000 NEO robots to EQT portfolio companies by 2030 - The deployment focuses on industrial applications, including manufacturing and logistics, rather than home use. 1X's shift in strategy reflects challenges in the home robotics market, emphasizing safety and privacy concerns. 1X is a humanoid robotics company… - source: pulse2.com
• 2025-11-13 - Partnership - 1X and IFS partner to industrialize humanoid robotics for asset-intensive sectors - The partnership combines 1X humanoid robots with IFS.ai industrial AI software. The companies plan to develop and deploy production-ready robotics solutions with select customers. Target sectors include manufacturing, utilities, aviation, and other… - source: ifs.com
• 2025-10-28 - Product Launch - 1X launches NEO as a consumer-ready humanoid home robot - 1X announced NEO as a consumer-ready home humanoid for chores, personalized assistance and natural interaction. For tasks NEO does not yet know, owners can schedule a 1X Expert to guide the robot through the task while NEO learns. Early Access was priced at… - source: 1x.tech
• 2025-06-16 - Research Publication - 1X releases the 1X World Model for humanoid policy evaluation and scaling - 1X shared progress on 1XWM, a world model that predicts the consequences of NEO's actions and accelerates policy evaluation without relying only on real-world physical testing. The post highlights action controllability, scaling results across tasks, and… - source: 1x.tech
• 2025-06-10 - Research Publication - 1X introduces Redwood AI for end-to-end mobile manipulation on NEO - 1X introduced Redwood as a vision-language transformer for humanoid mobile manipulation, covering tasks such as retrieving objects, opening doors, and navigation in the home. The company says Redwood runs on NEO's onboard GPU, jointly controls locomotion and… - source: 1x.tech
• 2025-03-18 - Partnership - 1X and NVIDIA collaborate on NEO humanoid autonomy research - The collaboration supported a NEO autonomy demo for NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at GTC 2025. 1X described work spanning a dataset API, inference SDK, and NVIDIA GR00T N1 model integration. - source: 1x.tech
• 2025-01-27 - Acquisition - 1X acquires Kind Humanoid to expand humanoid robot development - Kind Humanoid had developed Mona, a home-focused humanoid robot. 1X positioned the deal as a way to accelerate development of humanoid robots for household use. - source: 1x.tech
• 2024-01-13 - Funding - 1X Technologies Closes $100 Million Series B - 1X announced a $100M Series B financing round. The capital is intended to support scaling of NEO development and go-to-market execution. The round strengthens 1X's funding base for next-stage humanoid product and operations growth. - source: 1x.tech
• 2023-03-23 - Org Change - Halodi Robotics rebrands company as 1X Technologies - Halodi Robotics announced its rebrand from Halodi Robotics to 1X Technologies. The company said the 1X name aligned its identity with its long-term general-purpose android roadmap. 1X is a humanoid robotics company developing NEO, a soft, tendon-driven home… - source: 1x.tech
• 2023-03-23 - Funding - 1X raises $23.5M Series A2 led by OpenAI Startup Fund - 1X announced a $23.5M Series A2 funding round. OpenAI Startup Fund led the round. The financing was positioned to accelerate humanoid robotics R&D and product development. - source: 1x.tech