NEO Hands
About
About NEO Hands
Each NEO hand uses 22 fully actuated degrees of freedom across the fingers and palm plus three at the wrist. Quasi-direct-drive tendons operate at approximately 5:1 to 15:1 ratios, allowing all joints to yield under external force and report contact through native force control. Closed-loop proprioception tracks joint configuration without relying on vision.
Tactile surfaces measure normal force, contact position and shear for slip response. 1X states peak torque of 3.5 Nm at the thumb CMC, 2.6 Nm at finger MCP joints and 17.75 Nm at the wrist, with distal flexion force up to 45 N and positioning accuracy of ±0.2 mm. The IP68, food-safe assemblies are integrated into shipping NEO robots and are not offered as independent end effectors.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- 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 - Dexterous manipulation
Claimed - 1X documents NEO's tendon-driven hands with force control and tactile sensing for household manipulation.
Source - Force-controlled manipulation
Claimed - 1X documents NEO's tendon-driven hands with force control and tactile sensing for household manipulation.
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Supply
Supply / Components
- 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 - 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.
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