1X Technologies on July 9, 2026, unveiled a new robotic hand for its home humanoid robot NEO. Its defining feature is 25 degrees of freedom (DoF) across the fingers, palm and wrist, with force control and sensing in every joint.
July 9, 2026 · 1X Technologies
A Robotic Hand That Chases the Human One
1X unveils a new hand for its home humanoid NEO — 25 degrees of freedom with force control and tactile sensing in every joint, aimed squarely at the field's long-standing "hand problem."
25
degrees of freedom
±0.2 mm
positioning accuracy
IP68
waterproof & food-safe rated
Closing on the human hand
Degrees of freedom — how close to a real hand?
22
earlier NEO hand
Every joint is actively force-controlled and fully backdrivable — not padded with passive spring joints.
Force & torque
Wrist torque 17.75 Nm 3.5 Nm 2.6 Nm up to 45 N
Design & senses
Tendon-driven, motors in forearm~5:1–15:1 slip detection
What it can do
Verified over millions of cycles ; production on an in-house line with hundreds built and a target of 10,000 hands within 2026 .
LEGO assembly
Change a light bulb
Zip a jacket
Pour tea
Insert USB-C
Grasp origami
Sign language
Engineers praise
Full backdrivability & force transparency
Dexterity in in-hand rotation & assembly
Multi-million-cycle durability
Still to prove
No long-term real-world evaluations yet
Earlier hand flagged reliance on teleoperation
Standalone price & availability undisclosed
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