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Ungloved, the new 1X hand looks beautiful. 25 DoF, tendon-driven, force-controlled, tactile sensing, IP68 sealed, ±0.2mm positioning accuracy. 1X has already described NEO as being built in America’s most vertically integrated humanoid robot factory, and that strategy shows up here too; every hand is built end-to-end in-house, from tendon materials and 1X Motors to soft polymers, skin and tactile sensing. They have stated hundreds have already come off the line, with capacity for 10,000 hands this year.
Introducing NEO’s 25 Degrees of Freedom, tendon-driven hands — nearing or surpassing human-level dexterity, strength, speed, and reliability. For seventy years, robotics worked around the hand problem. The humanoid bet is the reverse: it lives or dies at the fingertips.
