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1X Technologies

1X

United States
Palo Alto
Founded 2014
Last updated: September 23, 2026

Full Name

1X Technologies AS

About

1X Technologies (formerly Halodi Robotics) was founded in Norway in 2014 by CEO Bernt Øyvind Børnich and now describes itself as an AI and robotics company based in Palo Alto, California, with engineering and manufacturing in San Carlos and Hayward. The company builds general-purpose humanoid robots: EVE, a wheeled humanoid deployed since 2022 for autonomous industrial tasks in customer facilities worldwide, and NEO, its flagship home humanoid announced as NEO Beta in 2024 and refined as NEO Gamma in 2025. 1X develops its own tendon-inspired actuators (Revo1, 2018) and, in 2026, introduced 25-DOF tendon-driven hands for NEO. It is backed by the OpenAI Startup Fund, which led a $23.5M Series A2 in 2023, and by EQT Ventures, which led a $100M Series B in January 2024 at about $820M valuation. NEO home robot pre-orders opened with a $200 deposit in late 2025, and the company reported more than 10,000 reservations while deliveries had not yet started as of mid-2026. In 2026 1X put its vertically integrated NEO factory in Hayward, California into operation, launched a World Model Lab and acquired Kind Humanoid; press reports in August 2026 said SoftBank is in talks to acquire a majority stake at around a $6B valuation.

Technical Overview

Company Stage
Pilot Delivery
Focus Application
Service
Robot Products
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Contact Information

Address
Palo Alto, California, United States

Robot Products

NEO Production

NEO Production

Released 2025

Pilot Delivery
NEO

NEO

Released 2024

Demo
EVE

EVE

Released 2017

Pilot Delivery
NEO Beta

NEO Beta

Released 2024

Demo
NEO Gamma

NEO Gamma

Released 2025

Demo
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Funding History

Total $124M
RoundAmountValuationDateInvestorsSource
Series B$100M$820MJan 2024EQT Ventures (Lead), Samsung NEXT, Nistad Group, SandwaterSource
Series A$24M-Mar 2023OpenAI Startup Fund (Lead), Tiger Global, Sandwater, Alliance Ventures, Skagerak CapitalSource

Development Timeline

2014
Founded as Halodi Robotics in Norway
2018
Developed Revo1, a tendon-actuation-inspired servo motor described at the time as the world's highest torque-to-weight drive servo, tailored for low gear-ratio robotics.
2022
Rebranded from Halodi Robotics to 1X Technologies and deployed its wheeled industrial humanoid EVE into customer facilities worldwide for autonomous industrial tasks.
2023
Raised USD 23.5 million in Series A2 funding led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, with Tiger Global, Sandwater, Alliance Ventures and Skagerak Capital participating.
2023
After successful enterprise deployments the company committed to the home, starting development of NEO to build humanoids that live and learn among people.
2024
NEO humanoid robot unveiled; raised $100M Series B
2025
Acquired Kind Humanoid in January 2025 to accelerate humanoid development.
2025
Collaborated with NVIDIA GEAR Lab (announced March 2025), spending a week in employees' homes teaching NEO Gamma to do the dishes.
2025
Released NEO Gamma, a version of NEO more suited to home use, bringing the company closer to entering US homes.
2025
Continued its private early-access program and gradually welcomed members of the public to be among the first to have NEO at home.
2025
Opened NEO home robot pre-orders with a USD 200 deposit (late 2025); press reports in 2026 said reservations exceeded 10,000 units while deliveries had not yet begun.
2026
Put the NEO factory in Hayward, California into operation (announced April 2026), described as America's first truly vertically integrated high-volume humanoid robot factory.
2026
Launched the 1X World Model Lab (June 2026) to scale humanoid intelligence and appointed Sam Sinha as Head of World Models and founding researcher.
2026
Introduced 25-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven hands for the NEO platform (July 2026), claiming near human-level dexterity, strength, safety and reliability.
2026
According to The Information and multiple outlets, SoftBank is in talks to acquire a majority stake in 1X at a valuation of about USD 6 billion (August 2026, not yet completed).
2026
Official roadmap: launch NEO into Early Access customer homes and begin scaling deployments, with abilities expanding to new domains from 2027.
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