Product profile
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 s...
Facts
- Company
- 1X Technologies
- Product type
- hand_end_effector
- Status
- active
- Primary capability
- Dexterous manipulation
- Website
- https://www.1x.tech/discover/neos-hands
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.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Robot hand
Core: 25 DoF
Function: Dexterous manipulation
Audience: Humanoid builders
Specifications
- backdrivability
- Fully backdrivable
- control
- Native force control across all 25 DoF
- drive_mechanism
- Quasi-direct-drive tendons via 1X Tendon Drive
- feedback
- Closed-loop joint configuration awareness
- fingertip_force_n
- Distal flexion force: up to 45 N N
- gear_ratio
- Approximately 5:1 to 15:1
- hand_dof
- 22 fully actuated DoF in fingers and palm
- ip_rating
- IP68
- lifespan_cycles
- >2M cycles cycles
- materials
- Food-safe materials
- peak_torque
- Thumb CMC 3.5 Nm; finger MCP 2.6 Nm
- positioning_accuracy_mm
- +/-0.2 mm mm
- safety
- Low gear ratios, tendon drive and low distal inertia allow external impacts to backdrive fingers.
- tactile_channels
- Normal force, contact location and shear
- tactile_sensing
- High-resolution tactile sensing across fingertips and surfaces
- torque
- Wrist torque: 17.75 Nm
- total_dof
- 25 DoF total
- wrist_dof
- 3 DoF at wrist
Operations
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- 1X reports hundreds of NEO hands produced on line rated for 10,000 in 2026 — 2026-07-09
- 1X appoints Bill Nash as chief financial officer — 2026-07-02
- 1X appoints Tom Sanocki as VP of Engineering — 2026-06-25
- 1X accelerates plans to deliver NEO to developers — 2026-06-24
- 1X launches World Model Lab for embodied foundation-model pretraining — 2026-06-04
- 1X brings NEO Factory online in Hayward, California — 2026-04-30
- 1X details NVIDIA compute and vision stack for NEO — 2026-03-17
- 1X Technologies Unveils NEO's World Model for Enhanced Robot Learning — 2026-01-12