1X emphasizes in-house production of key parts like Revo2 motors, tendons, battery packs, BMS electronics, and soft polymer “flesh” to speed iteration and manage quality.

NEO’s Cortex brain uses on-device NVIDIA Jetson Thor for real-time AI inference, with training and simulation supported by NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab to reduce cloud dependence and boost safety.

Each NEO relies on Jetson Thor for perception, navigation, reasoning, and decision-making, trained in virtual environments using NVIDIA Isaac tools.

The Hayward factory is framed as a strategic milestone for advancing domestic AI hardware and robotics manufacturing in the United States.

1X builds critical components in-house—motors, batteries, structures, transmissions, soft goods, sensors—to enable faster iteration, higher safety, and reduced reliance on foreign suppliers.

1X has begun full-scale production of its NEO humanoid at a 58,000-square-foot Hayward, California facility, with more than 200 workers and a goal of exceeding 100,000 units by 2027.

NEO is pitched as a safe, intelligent, general-purpose home robot designed to assist humans in everyday environments, with consumer shipments planned to start in 2026.

The company operates a vertically integrated full-stack model, producing core components in-house to accelerate development, reliability, and control over costs and geopolitics.

CEO Bernt Bjornich and VP Vikram Kothari present the Hayward facility as a transition from concept to execution, stressing safety, reliability, and U.S.-based manufacturing as strategic advantages.

1X emphasizes domestic production to enable rapid delivery, localized support, and faster incorporation of customer feedback into future iterations, aiming to make NEO among the first consumer-ready humanoids.

The company highlights that U.S.-based production supports faster delivery and ongoing customer feedback integration into subsequent NEO versions.

The story frames the factory expansion and production targets as central to 1X’s push to scale humanoid robotics for home use.