1X Technologies has opened a 58,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Hayward, California, to produce its NEO humanoid robot at consumer scale. This is the first US-scale push to put a general-purpose humanoid robot into private homes, with shipments planned for this year and a target of over 100,000 units annually by the end of 2027. The company described the plant as the first vertically integrated humanoid robot factory in the US. The factory currently employs over 200 staff and is scaling. NEO is designed to operate alongside humans in domestic environments rather than industrial environments. The robot is powered by Nvidia’s Jetson Thor onboard computing platform and trained using the Isaac open robotics simulation framework. Additionally, 1X has partnered with private equity firm EQT to deploy up to 10,000 NEOs to companies in EQT's portfolio between 2026 and 2030.