NEO Hands

NEO Hands are 1X's tendon-driven dexterous robotic hands for the NEO humanoid. The subsystem combines 25 total degrees of freedom, force control, tactile sensing and IP68 sealing for household manipulation tasks.

Facts

  • Company: 1X Technologies
  • Type: Robot Hand
  • Core: 25 DoF
  • Function: Manipulation
  • Audience: Humanoid builders
  • Status: Active
  • Website: https://www.1x.tech/discover/neos-hands

About

About NEO Hands

NEO Hands are the integrated manipulation assemblies used on every shipping 1X NEO home robot. Each tendon-driven hand has 25 degrees of freedom, including 22 fully actuated degrees across the fingers and palm plus three at the wrist. Low-ratio tendon drives make the joints backdrivable and force-controlled.

The hands combine joint proprioception with tactile sensing across the fingertips and hand surfaces for contact, slip and shear feedback. NEO Hands are integrated NEO subsystems and are not sold independently. Their operation depends on the robot's arms, perception, control software and task supervision.

Specifications

  • Total Dof: 25 DoF total
  • Wrist Dof: 3 DoF at wrist
  • Control: Native force control across all 25 DoF
  • Backdrivability: Fully backdrivable
  • Drive Mechanism: Quasi-direct-drive tendons via 1X Tendon Drive
  • Gear Ratio: Approximately 5:1 to 15:1
  • Ip Rating: IP68
  • materials and robotics supply chain: Food-safe materials

Market context

Humanoid builders

  • Peer Group: Robot hands, Dexterous robotic hand, Robot hand components
  • Workflow: End-effector manipulation
  • Capability: Tactile sensing, Robotic grasping, Dexterous manipulation

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Capabilities

Dexterous manipulation

  • Capability areas: Tactile sensing, Robotic grasping, Dexterous manipulation
  • Workflows: End-effector manipulation
  • Tactile interaction sensing - Claimed - 1X documents NEO's tendon-driven hands with force control and tactile sensing for household manipulation. - source: 1x.tech

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Supply

  • Hand stack internalization - 1X says every NEO hand is built end-to-end in-house, from tendon materials and 1X Motors through soft polymers, skin, and tactile sensing. - source: 1x.tech
  • Hand production capacity - 10000 hands 2026 - 1X reports hundreds of hands have already come off a scalable line and says the line has capacity to produce 10,000 hands this year. - source: 1x.tech

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