Humanoid robotics startup 1X opens a new 58,000-square-foot factory in Hayward, California, where it aims to build 100,000 robots by the end of 2027 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
1X opens a 58,000 sq ft factory in Hayward, CA, targeting 10,000 humanoid robots in 2025 and 100,000 by 2027—a major manufacturing scale-up in the embodied AI space.
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<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260430/p28#a260430p28" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Samantha Kelly / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/humanoid-maker-1x-opens-us-factory-plans-to-make-10-000-home-robots-this-year">Humanoid robotics startup 1X opens a new 58,000-square-foot factory in Hayward, California, where it aims to build 100,000 robots by the end of 2027</a></b></span> — 1X Technologies AS, the Norway-founded robotics startup backed by OpenAI, has opened a new 58,000-square-foot factory in Hayward, California … </p>
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