1X NEO Timeline

1X opens its 58,000 sq ft Hayward, California facility for full-scale NEO production. Annual capacity starts at 10,000 units with a planned ramp beyond 100,000 by 2027. The factory is vertically integrated — motors, batteries, sensors, structural parts and transmissions are all designed and built in-house, including automated motor lines and precision copper-coil winding. CEO Bernt Børnich described the milestone as "production happening now," with American consumers among the first to receive NEO at home.

First customer NEO units ship to early-access buyers in 2026, ahead of a wider rollout. Robots produced in earlier batches are routed to internal testing, validation and research environments before general delivery.

1X opens early-access pre-orders for NEO at $20,000 per unit or a $499/month subscription. Reported first-year production capacity of 10,000+ units sells out within five days, signalling unusually strong consumer interest in a humanoid home robot.

1X confirms NEO is powered by Nvidia's Jetson Thor onboard computing platform for real-time perception, reasoning, navigation and decision-making, and trained at scale in Nvidia Isaac Sim. The pairing supports on-device inference rather than heavy cloud dependence — important for latency and privacy in the home.

1X positions NEO publicly as a consumer humanoid for the home, separating it from earlier industrial-focused humanoid programmes. The company sets out a long-term vision of NEO as a general-purpose helper for light household activity, mobility support and routine interaction.

The company that becomes 1X Technologies is founded as Halodi Robotics in Sandvika, Norway, focused on full-size humanoid robots for service applications. The company is later renamed 1X.