1X NEO Hand Engineer Max Titov Goes Independent, Shares Robotics Portfolio
eigenron · x · 2026-10-07
Robotics hardware engineer Max Titov launched a personal site detailing two years of tendon-driven humanoid hand work: testing actuation and designing tactile sensor experiments for 1X's NEO hands, building a hardware teleoperation hand during an NVIDIA internship, and earlier dexterity research at UVA. eigenron amplified the post, noting Titov is now building something new in robotics and inviting people to reach out — a notable talent move in embodied AI.
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