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Tools & manufacturing · October 2025

1X NEO home humanoid

The first home humanoid offered for sale to consumers.

1X opened orders for NEO at $20,000 or $499 a month, and the more than 10,000 first-year units sold out in five days. Its Hayward, California factory opened on April 30, 2026 with capacity for 10,000 robots a year.

See it in the living treeWikipediaSource

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

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The dashed line marks when it first worked.

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