1X Technologies Timeline

Events

• 2026-08-26 - Market Signal - Report says SoftBank is discussing a majority stake in 1X - The Information attributed the talks to people familiar with the matter, and Reuters said it could not independently confirm the report. SoftBank declined to comment and 1X did not immediately respond to Reuters. No agreement had been announced, and the… - source: live.euronext.com
• 2026-07-09 - Production Milestone - 1X reports hundreds of NEO hands produced on line rated for 10,000 in 2026 - Each hand assembly has 25 force-controlled degrees of freedom: 22 in the fingers and palm, plus three at the wrist. The dedicated line uses full end-of-line testing and is rated to produce 10,000 hands during 2026. 1X manufactures the assemblies in-house… - source: 1x.tech
• 2026-07-02 - Executive Hire - 1X appoints Bill Nash as chief financial officer - Bill Nash previously served as chief financial officer at Ursa Major and Cruise. At Cruise, Nash worked on capital raising, strategic partnerships and operational expansion; at Ursa Major, he supported propulsion-system development. Nash holds an MBA from… - source: 1x.tech
• 2026-06-25 - Executive Hire - 1X appoints Tom Sanocki as VP of Engineering - Sanocki was the first Engineering Director for Avatars at Roblox and led four engineering teams on Meta’s Horizon Worlds. He founded a virtual-reality character platform acquired by Lytro and previously worked on Bungie’s Destiny 1 and Pixar films. He earned… - source: 1x.tech
• 2026-06-24 - Market Signal - 1X accelerates plans to deliver NEO to developers - The developer initiative targets researchers, robotics startups and enterprise integrators. Børnich said the initiative would keep the home-customer roadmap in place and contribute improvements to the consumer product. 1X planned to announce specific… - source: humanoidsdaily.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 operational Hayward site employs more than 200 people, with current units prioritized for testing in 1X team members’ homes. 1X manufactures motors, batteries, structures, transmissions, soft goods and sensors in-house; its latest NEO iteration went from… - 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 introduces 1XWM world model for NEO robot - The 14-billion-parameter video backbone was adapted using 900 hours of egocentric human video and 70 hours of NEO robot data. An inverse-dynamics model converts generated video into robot actions; its training used 400 hours of unfiltered robot data. 1X… - source: 1x.tech
• 2025-12-11 - Partnership - 1X and EQT agree framework for potential NEO rollout - Each EQT portfolio company would independently decide whether and how to implement the robots. The initial focus spans manufacturing, logistics, facilities, warehousing and healthcare operations. The partners planned initial US pilots during 2026, followed… - source: markets.financialcontent.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 opens NEO home robot preorders - The new platform succeeds NEO Beta and NEO Gamma and uses tendon-driven actuation with a soft body. Owners can schedule a 1X Expert to guide unfamiliar chores while the robot learns. Early Access cost $20,000 with priority delivery in 2026; a later… - source: 1x.tech
• 2025-06-16 - Research Publication - 1X releases the 1X World Model for humanoid policy evaluation and scaling - The model predicts future video and final-state task success from initial observations and low-level robot action sequences. 1X used the forecasts to compare policy architectures and training checkpoints, finding correlation with real-world evaluation… - source: 1x.tech
• 2025-06-10 - Research Publication - 1X introduces Redwood AI for NEO Gamma mobile manipulation - Redwood is a 160-million-parameter model running on the robot’s onboard GPU at about 5 Hz. Its outputs coordinate arm, hand, walking and pelvis commands, allowing whole-body and multi-contact manipulation. Training uses successful and unsuccessful episodes… - source: 1x.tech
• 2025-03-18 - Partnership - 1X and NVIDIA collaborate on NEO Gamma autonomy research - The teams trained a single end-to-end GR00T N1 model over one week in a 1X employee’s home. NEO Gamma autonomously grasped a cup, transferred it between hands and placed it in a dishwasher. 1X supplied a dataset API and an inference SDK supporting a… - source: 1x.tech
• 2025-01-27 - Acquisition - 1X acquires Kind Humanoid - 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
• 2024-08-30 - Product Launch - 1X unveils NEO Beta humanoid robot for consumer home use - NEO Beta was a bipedal prototype designed for home use and close interaction with people. 1X planned to place a limited number of units in selected homes during 2024 for research and development. The design was intended for scaled manufacturing at 1X’s… - source: 1x.tech
• 2024-04-02 - Market Signal - 1X outlines vertically integrated manufacturing site in Moss - The planned site would co-locate actuator manufacturing, robot assembly and testing. 1X positioned the facility next to its Moss campus and engineering team to shorten feedback loops. The company described the programme as supporting vertically integrated… - source: 1x.tech
• 2024-01-13 - Funding - 1X Technologies Closes $100 Million Series B - The proceeds were intended to introduce NEO to consumers and support existing enterprise clients in logistics and guarding. The financing brought 1X’s fundraising to more than $125 million in less than 12 months, following the March 2023 round led by OpenAI… - 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
• 2023-03-06 - Org Change - Halodi Robotics rebrands to 1X Technologies - The name refers to the company’s intention for androids to work alongside people at normal human speed. The wider brand rollout was planned for spring 2023, following the corporate name change. At the time, 1X described US EVE deployments and a… - source: 1xtech.medium.com