1X opens Hayward NEO factory
Home humanoid production begins
Confirmed
Status
- Claim
Confirmed
- Our reporting
- High confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 AstraIn its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5In its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen30 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7In its training data
It is after the cutoff of Gemini 4 Hydrogen, and can be in the training data of GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5 and Grok 4.7.
Key facts
- 58,000 sq ft; 200+ staff; motors, batteries, transmissions, structures, soft goods and sensors made in-house
- Capacity: 10,000 units in 2026; 100,000+ units/yr targeted by end of 2027
- 10,000+ preorders sold out within five days of the 2025-10-28 launch
- Price: $20,000 Early Access or $499/month; $200 refundable deposit; US deliveries ‘start 2026’
- Onboard compute: NVIDIA Jetson Thor; autonomy from Redwood AI plus remote teleoperation
What happened
1X, backed by OpenAI’s startup fund among others, began series production of NEO. The first units went to internal testing, R&D and in-home testing programs before customer deliveries. By mid-July 2026 no independently verified delivery to a customer home had been reported, and we found none by 2026-09-29.
Why it matters
NEO is the first humanoid sold for consumer homes at scale via preorders; whether 1X ships in 2026 is a key test of the home-humanoid market.
Sources
4 sources from 4 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
4 sources: 2 primary, 2 press
Primary
- 1X press release (GlobeNewswire): 1X opens NEO factory in Haywardglobenewswire.com, official
- 1X: Order NEO1x.tech, official
Press
- Forbes: 1X kicks off full-scale production of Neoforbes.com, press
- The Next Web: 1X starts shipping NEO (units routed to internal testing first)thenextweb.com, press
Changes
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