1X Launches World Model Lab for Autonomous Humanoids, Hiring Luma AI Veteran Sam Sinha
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Updated · 1x.tech · Jun 5
1X Launches World Model Lab for Autonomous Humanoids, Hiring Luma AI Veteran Sam Sinha
3 articles · Updated · 1x.tech · Jun 5
Summary
1X said it has created the 1X World Model Lab, a new research unit focused on large-scale embodied world-model pretraining to speed development of fully autonomous humanoid robots.
NEO's recent zero-shot performance on unseen tasks drove the move, with 1X arguing robotics needs pretraining from the start on video, egocentric human data, simulation, teleoperation and on-policy robot data.
Sam Sinha, a founding research scientist at Luma AI, joins as founding AI researcher and head of world models to lead work on frontier world and reasoning models for spatial intelligence.
1X said its live NEO factory removes fleet-scaling as a bottleneck for real-world data collection, reinforcing its strategy that data ownership across the full training-and-deployment loop is the key moat in embodied AI.
The lab marks 1X's push to connect pretraining, robot learning, deployment and feedback data into a closed loop as competition intensifies to build general-purpose humanoids.