1X World Model Lab

A dedicated lab publishing a technical report and evaluation work on predictive models for robot learning.

No.Paper · what it does and showsIndustry contribution

NEO's Hands: An API to the Physical World2026 ↗

A 25 degree-of-freedom tendon-driven hand with force transparency, tactile skin, low distal inertia and reflex-level robustness, built as the sensing and actuation layer for the NEO humanoid.

Treats the hand as the platform API for third-party robot applications and, with 10,000 units planned for the year, targets the hardware ceiling on what humanoid developers can build.

1X World Model: Evaluating Bits, not Atoms2025 ↗

Trains a video-generation world model on humanoid data and evaluates policies inside it — "evaluating bits, not atoms" — to predict real-world task success before any hardware runs.

Lets teams screen humanoid policies against rare and hazardous situations without risking hardware, cutting the cost and time of physical evaluation.