Vikram
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Vikram
@vkothari
VP, Hardware & Mfg @1x_tech | ex-SpaceX
California, USA Katılım Eylül 2008
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In the 1X demo, the sensorized glove appears to show localized damage
Under repeated use, cracks can propagate, leading to failure over time. The next challenge for robotic hands is not only dexterity, but damage-resistant materials and architectures to resist and manage failure
Bernt Bornich@BerntBornich
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.
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@MarwaEldiwiny @Mark__Hysell @1x_tech We obsess about these things internally and we are working hard on making tactile field-reliable. It is one of the toughest problems to solve both from a sensing and material science perspective. But we are making great progress.
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@Mark__Hysell @1x_tech Good. I am simply pointing out what is visible in the demo. I think every robotics engineer has the freedom to point out potential limitations and ask questions about what has been demonstrated.
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If you still doubt it, here are 16 humanoid robot hands moving closer to the shape, reach and dexterity of a human hand.
01 🇳🇴 1X NEO: 25 DoF, tendon drive, 3-DoF wrist, pressure, location and slip sensing, up to 45 N finger force, 17.75 Nm wrist torque and IP68 protection.
02 🇺🇸 Tesla Optimus: Human-scale architecture integrating compact actuators, sensors and mechanical transmissions. Tesla has not released a complete public hand specification.
03 🇺🇸 Figure 03: Soft adaptive fingertips, tactile sensors and palm cameras designed to stabilize grasps across different objects.
04 🇨🇦 Sanctuary AI Phoenix: 21-DoF hydraulic hands with tactile sensing and demonstrated in-hand object manipulation.
05 🇺🇸 Apptronik Apollo: Designed for dexterous manipulation. Apptronik has said that more human-like hands remain part of its continuing R&D work.
06 🇨🇳 Unitree G1: Optional force-controlled hands. Dex3-1 provides 7 DoF, while the Inspire option uses 6 DoF across 12 moving joints.
07 🇨🇳 Fourier GR-1: Human-like hand geometry for versatile grasping. The newer GR-2 advances the platform to 12-DoF hands with six tactile sensor arrays.
08 🇨🇳 UBTECH Walker S: Five-finger dexterous hands with pressure sensing. Walker S2’s fourth-generation hand adds an active thumb DoF and raises fingertip payload to 12.5 N.
09 🇨🇳 Robot Era STAR1: Fully actuated dexterous hands developed for precise object manipulation.
10 🇨🇳 EngineAI PM01: A compact humanoid platform with five-finger hands, although detailed official hand specifications remain limited.
11 🇨🇳 AgiBot A2: The A2 family includes industrial hands with 19 DoF, 12 actively driven. AgiBot’s OmniHand offers 16 DoF and more than 400 force-sensing taxels.
12 🇨🇳 XPENG IRON: Human-scale 1:1 hands with 22 DoF, built around XPENG’s smallest harmonic joints.
13 🇨🇳 Kepler Forerunner K2: Developed for industrial manipulation and object handling. Detailed hand-level specifications have not been published.
14 🇨🇳 Xiaomi CyberOne: Five-finger humanoid hands publicly demonstrated for object handling, with limited published hand-level specifications.
15 🇯🇵 Toyota T-HR3: Ten articulated fingers, torque sensing and force-feedback teleoperation through Toyota’s Master Maneuvering System.
16 🇪🇸 PAL Robotics TALOS: Torque-controlled manipulation for grasping and operating tools. Its 7-DoF arms can carry 6 kg each with the arm extended.
These hands are not equally mature. Some are commercial products, some are optional end-effectors and others remain research prototypes.
What task do you believe is still impossible for a robot?
Tell me. I’ll tell you which hand I would use and why.
TechniaHQ | humanoid robots@techniahqrobot
Italy’s humanoid robotics ecosystem goes far beyond a single prototype. These 8 verified platforms show how Italian teams are approaching Physical AI: • ergoCub IIT: 1.5 m, 55.7 kg, approximately 10 kg carrying capacity, depth vision and LiDAR designed for collaborative lifting. • iCub IIT: child-sized research humanoid with dexterous hands and roughly 2,000 tactile sensing points for embodied AI research. • WALK-MAN IIT: disaster-response humanoid developed for powerful manipulation, balanced locomotion and work inside damaged buildings. • R1 IIT: 1.3 m wheeled service robot with adjustable height, force-torque sensors, tactile hands and a compact footprint for offices, homes and public spaces. • COMAN IIT: compliant biped combining joint-torque sensing, impedance control and passive compliance for balance, locomotion and physical interaction. • AlterEgo IIT + University of Pisa: two-wheeled avatar robot with 6-DoF arms, soft hands, stereo vision and teleoperation interfaces. • RoBee R Oversonic Robotics: industrial humanoid with 90 cm arm reach, 5 kg payload per arm, LiDAR, depth cameras and up to 8 hours of battery operation. • RoBee M Oversonic Robotics: healthcare model designed for rehabilitation support, voice interaction and autonomous navigation inside hospital environments. This is a selection of verified Italian platforms not an official national count. Which robot has the clearest path from research to real world deployment? #HumanoidRobots #PhysicalAI #EmbodiedAI #Robotics #MadeInItaly
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Here’s what gonna happen
As soon as you ship your hand would be torn apart and reverse engineer by the Chinese and shipped back at -80% the cost, and i will definitely buy from them
Innovation without capabilities to scale manufacturing is basically you are doing free R&D for the Chinese
Very expensive Lesson learned
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“But tendons won’t work!”
Millions of cycles under load later… I hope you’ve accepted it’s a skill issue
Bernt Bornich@BerntBornich
Another good weekend
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@TenaciousTek Already at 10K pairs /yr capacity. Can quickly scale that.
Very serviceable. Very manufacturable.
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Unless it’s mass manufacturable, it’s irrelevant
Bernt Bornich@BerntBornich
Tomorrow we’re unveiling the most advanced robotic hand in human history
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Appreciate the shoutout. Eight hard years at SpaceX taught me not to bet against a hard-charging team just because they've gone quiet. Quiet is usually when the unglamorous work happens - simplification, reliability, cost, supply chain.
Everyone building humanoids is part of the same small tribe of die-hards taking the fiction out of science fiction. Different routes, same summit. Every robot that earns its keep makes this real for all of us.
Honestly, my biggest problem isn't competitors. It's keeping the factory ahead of the AI - the world model is improving on a curve the hardware roadmap has to chase. Good problem to have.
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Who thinks Tesla is behind with Optimus? I get the "we don't want our competitors to copy us" argument for demos, but couldn't Tesla just put some gloves and a shirt over Optimus and give us a quick update into what they have cooking? It's been QUIET out there from the Optimii
Fwiw I don't think Tesla's behind, I think part of it is optimizing differently and taking different paths to market. NEO is going teleoperator route to ship to customer homes for training. Tesla will likely do plenty of learning in the factories with initial deployment there. The list of differences goes on tbh
But the great news is 1X is an American-Norwegian company (main operations in America, founded in Norway) and the faster the market has options from American manufacturers, the better (some motors come from Norway). The main 1X factory currently is in Hayward, CA (~58k sq. ft. + 10k unit capacity/yr.) but a bigger location is set to come online in San Carlos later this year (~231k sq. ft. to hit 100k units/yr.)
Plus the VP of Operations is a former SpaceX employee (Vikram Kothari - he spent 8 years there and nearly a decade at Microsoft in hw supply chain leadership)
Bernt Bornich@BerntBornich
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.
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U.S. based humanoid robotics company @1x_tech has just unveiled their new tendon-driven robot hands with 25 degrees of freedom (DOF).
• Made in USA
• Tendon Drive Ratio: 5:1–15:1
• Wrist Dexterity: 3 DOF
• Backdrivability: Fully backdrivable
• Tactile Sensing: Pressure + location + slip
• Finger Force: Up to 45 N
• Wrist Torque: 17.75 Nm
• Position Accuracy: ±0.2 mm
• Waterproof Rating: IP68
• Reliability: >2 million cycles
"These hands are designed to do something fundamental: remove the hardware ceiling on what humanoid robots can actually do, and make data the only barrier to capabilities. By matching or surpassing human hands across the dimensions that matter, they ensure our AI models are no longer limited by dexterity. NEO can now perform virtually any task a human can do with their hands– with the precision, adaptability, and gentleness required for real-world environments."
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@sporadica 🫶🏽 Appreciate it! We have been obsessing over this for 9 months, heads down. This is what it looks like when the people designing the hand sit on the floor.
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i genuinely never thought i'd see a robotic hand good enough to screw in a lightbulb within the decade
and yet, here we are. bravo.
Bernt Bornich@BerntBornich
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.
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Alien technology built right here in California, USA 🇺🇸
vittorio@IterIntellectus
what the hell man alien technology
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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.
Bernt Bornich@BerntBornich
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.
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A stunning piece of engineering!!
1X unveils the new humanoid hand for NEO
- 25 degrees of freedom: 22 fully actuated in the fingers and palm, plus 3 at the wrist.
- The DoF are distributed anatomically rather than evenly, deliberately biased toward a thumb that genuinely opposes the fingers.
- In-house tendon-driven, quasi-direct-drive running low gear ratios of ~5:1 to 15:1 vs the typical 100:1–200:1.
- Motors live in the forearm and pull tendons through the wrist. This keeps the hand light and its inertia low while producing high forces.
Sensing
- All 25 DoF are natively force-controlled and fully backdrivable. Every joint doubles as a force sensor.
- Very important, closed-loop proprioception: it always knows its own pose and effort without looking.
- Tactile skin across the fingertips and surfaces measuring contact and shear. This helps with adaptive gripping in real time.
Safety and durability
- IP68 waterproof and food-safe, so it can wash its own hands.
- Compliant by construction: the low gear ratios, tendon drive, and low distal inertia let external impacts safely backdrive the fingers. It yields when hit by a hammer or caught in a drawer.
- Full finger assemblies validated to millions of cycles.
Manufacturing
- Deep vertical integration: in-house motors, custom electronics, and tendon systems.
- Hundreds built already, with capacity to produce 10,000 hands this year.
"An API to the Physical World"
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Fair question for most hands. Not this one. Designed by the team that also builds it at scale. Every part in that hand fought for its existence. The moving ones fought hardest; nothing survives unless it buys a degree of freedom or reliability. Designers sit on the factory floor, design the tooling and own cycle times. Unmanufacturable designs die on contact with the factory floor.
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This is beautiful, which makes me wonder if it’s designed for manufacturing.
Bernt Bornich@BerntBornich
Tomorrow we’re unveiling the most advanced robotic hand in human history
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Tomorrow we’re unveiling the most advanced robotic hand in human history
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