Facts

• Segment: Humanoid
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2014
• Website: https://1x.tech

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Supply chain relationships
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

1X Technologies builds humanoid robots for home and workplace assistance, with a focus on safe robots that can operate around people. Its public product line includes NEO, a biped home robot for chores and personal assistance, and EVE, an earlier wheeled android used for supervised work and data collection.

Market context

1X is pursuing an "in-the-world" training loop: deploy robots into real homes, run autonomously by default, and use expert guidance for edge cases so the system improves over time. If that approach scales, it's a credible route to embodied learning beyond controlled demos.

• Capability: Humanoid robotics (bipedal systems for human environments)
• Capability: Teleoperation systems (human-in-the-loop control)
• Capability: AI-driven autonomy (learning + behavior models over time)
• Capability: Manipulation in human spaces (doors, objects, tools)
• Capability: Safety-focused robotics (designed for operation around people)
• Strategic position: Embodied AI in real-world environments (not just labs)
• Strategic position: Human-first deployment model (teleop -> autonomy progression)
• Strategic position: Home + service robotics angle (vs industrial/logistics focus)

Products

• NEO

Facts

• Website: https://1x.tech
• HQ: Palo Alto, CA, United States
• Founded: 2014
• Segment: Humanoid
• Funding total: $124M
• Known funding rounds: 2
• Latest funding date: 2024-01-16

Funding

• 2024-01-16 - Series B - $100M - 1X Technologies Closes $100 Million Series B - source: goodwinlaw.com
• 2023-03-23 - Series A2 - $24M - 1X raises $23.5M Series A2 led by OpenAI Startup Fund - source: 1x.tech

Investors

• Sandwater - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-03-23 - latest 2024-01-16
• Skagerak Capital - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-03-23 - latest 2024-01-16
• EQT Ventures - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-01-16
• Nistad Group - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-01-16
• Samsung NEXT - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2024-01-16
• Alliance Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-03-23
• OpenAI Startup Fund - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-03-23
• Tiger Global - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-03-23

General-purpose humanoid robots for home and human-scale environments

1X Technologies develops humanoid robots designed to work around people. Originally founded as Halodi Robotics, the company now focuses on EVE and NEO-class systems for human-scale environments.

• Target environment: Homes, human-scale indoor spaces, research environments, industrial-adjacent pilots and future everyday-assistance settings.
• Deployment model: Humanoid platform model built around robot hardware, AI development, manufacturing, product demonstrations, financing and staged commercial deployment.
• Customer context: Early customers, research partners, investors, household robotics users, industrial pilot customers and robotics ecosystem partners.
• Workflow context: Humanoid locomotion, safe actuation, mobile manipulation, teleoperation and learning, home assistance, human-robot interaction and general-purpose robotics development.
• Commercial maturity: 1X has major financing, a public humanoid product direction and active manufacturing expansion.
• Market position: Norwegian-American humanoid builder focused on home-oriented general-purpose robots rather than factory-only humanoids.
• Adoption constraints: Safety, reliability in homes, manipulation capability, production scale, autonomy, cost, regulatory expectations and customer trust.
• Adjacent context: Humanoid robotics, home robots, embodied AI, mobile manipulation, teleoperation and general-purpose robotics.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-06-25 - Executive Hire - 1X appoints Tom Sanocki as VP of Engineering - Tom Sanocki joins 1X as VP of Engineering after engineering leadership roles at Roblox and Meta Horizon Worlds.
• 2026-06-04 - Market Signal - 1X launches World Model Lab for embodied foundation-model pretraining - 1X launched the 1X World Model Lab to focus on large-scale embodied world-model pretraining for humanoid robots.
• 2026-04-30 - Facility Opening - 1X brings NEO Factory online in Hayward, California - 1X announced that its NEO Factory in Hayward, California is live and fully operational.
• 2026-01-12 - Research Publication - 1X details video-pretrained 1XWM policy transfer from world model to NEO - 1X described a newer 1X World Model pipeline in which a video-pretrained world model and inverse dynamics mo…
• 2026-01-12 - Capability - 1X Technologies Unveils NEO's World Model for Enhanced Robot Learning - 1XWM leverages video pretraining to enhance NEO's understanding of physical dynamics and object interactions.
• 2026-01-09 - Executive Hire - 1X hires Mohi Khansari to lead robot learning - 1X announced Mohi Khansari as Head of Robot Learning.
• 2025-12-11 - Partnership - 1X supplies 10,000 NEO robots to EQT portfolio companies by 2030 - The deployment focuses on industrial applications, including manufacturing and logistics, rather than home use.
• 2025-11-13 - Partnership - 1X and IFS partner to industrialize humanoid robotics for asset-intensive sectors - The partnership combines 1X humanoid robots with IFS.ai industrial AI software.
• 2025-10-28 - Demonstration - 1X Demonstrates NEO's 'Human-in-the-Loop' Strategy in Launch Video - 1X's launch video showcases NEO's 'Expert Mode,' allowing human operators to supervise tasks the robot cannot perform aut…
• 2025-10-28 - Product Launch - 1X launches NEO as a consumer-ready humanoid home robot - 1X announced NEO as a consumer-ready humanoid home robot.
• 2025-06-16 - Research Publication - 1X releases the 1X World Model for humanoid policy evaluation and scaling - 1X shared progress on 1XWM, a world model that predicts the consequences of NEO's actions and accelerates p…
• 2025-06-10 - Research Publication - 1X introduces Redwood AI for end-to-end mobile manipulation on NEO - 1X introduced Redwood as a vision-language transformer for humanoid mobile manipulation, covering tasks such as re…
• 2025-03-18 - Partnership - 1X and NVIDIA collaborate on NEO humanoid autonomy research - The collaboration supported a NEO autonomy demo for NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at GTC 2025.
• 2025-01-27 - Acquisition - 1X acquires Kind Humanoid - Kind Humanoid had developed Mona, a home-focused humanoid robot.
• 2024-01-16 - Funding - 1X Technologies Closes $100 Million Series B - 1X announced a $100M Series B financing round.
• 2023-03-23 - Org Change - Halodi Robotics rebrands company as 1X Technologies - Halodi Robotics announced its rebrand from Halodi Robotics to 1X Technologies.
• 2023-03-23 - Funding - 1X raises $23.5M Series A2 led by OpenAI Startup Fund - 1X announced a $23.5M Series A2 funding round.

Operations / Deployments

• 2026-04-30 - Facility Opening - 1X brings NEO Factory online in Hayward, California - 1X announced that its NEO Factory in Hayward, California is live and fully operational.

Team

• Bernt Øyvind Børnich - Founder and Chief Executive Officer
• Jorge Milburn - VP of Sales
• Dar Sleeper - VP of Product and Design
• Mohi Khansari - Head of Robot Learning

Supply chain relationships

• NVIDIA - Platform / ecosystem (ex-supply row) - NVIDIA public materials reference 1X Technologies in Isaac/GR00T robotics platform and foundation-model ecosystem work.

Relationships

• commercial_order - 10,000 NEO robots to EQT portfolio companies by 2030
• Autonomy technology collaborator - 1X and NVIDIA collaborated on NEO autonomy tooling, dataset workflows, and GR00T N1 work.
• Acquired company - 1X acquired Kind Humanoid, developer of the Mona home humanoid robot.

Context tags

• Pilot deployments - Commercial Stage - Pilot deployments with disclosed customers
• Dexterous manipulation - Capability - Hand and arm manipulation disclosed
• Humanoid service builder - Peer Group - Core peer group: Neo/NEO humanoid for service and home contexts
• Industrial task execution - Workflow - Initial deployment focus on industrial and logistics tasks
• Vision-language-action control - Capability - Embodied AI approach for robot task learning
• Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Builds complete NEO humanoid robot system
• Bipedal locomotion - Capability - NEO demonstrated walking, sitting and human-like mobility
• Factories - Customer Environment - Initial target environments include industrial facilities

Customers and deployments

• Target Annual Capacity Robots - toward 100,000+ robots/year - 2026-04-30 - NEO Factory / San Carlos facility - humanoid robot manufacturing - 1X says planned automation increases and the San Carlos facility are expected…
• Planned Annual Capacity Robots - up to 10,000 robots/year - 2026-04-30 - NEO Factory - humanoid robot manufacturing - 1X says its Hayward NEO Factory is live and, with San Carlos coming online later in 2026, the company…

Record / Articles

• 2026-06-24 - 1X, Unitree and the Humanoid Developer-Market Gap - NEO is still framed as a home robot, but 1X’s developer-access path points to a more immediate humanoid market: researchers, builders and early adopters.…
• 2026-04-30 - 1X opens NEO Factory in Hayward, California - 1X's 58,000-square-foot Hayward facility begins full-scale NEO production, stood up in three months. - Korthos: /research/1x-opens-neo-factory-in-hayward-califo…
• 2024-01-13 - 1X Technologies is building NEO androids into home-assistance robotics - A January 13, 2024 Series B, NEO consumer android plan, and enterprise logistics work give 1X Technologies a humanoid deployment anch…