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Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

1X Technologies (formerly Halodi Robotics) is a Norwegian-founded AI and robotics company building humanoid robots intended to work safely around people. Its strategy combines proprietary robot hardware, embodied-AI/world-model training, and deployment data from real robots. [1X official; TechCrunch]

Primary product

NEO, a bipedal humanoid home robot for household assistance; 1X also develops EVE/EVE Industrial for enterprise logistics, guarding and facility use.

Founded

2014

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California, United States

Team size

Approximately 400–500 (third-party LinkedIn-derived estimate; public estimates vary materially).

Work style

Onsite

Industry

Robotics and artificial intelligence

Sub-industry

Humanoid robotics, embodied AI, industrial automation

Offices

Palo Alto, California, United States

San Carlos, California, United States

Hayward, California, United States

Moss, Norway

Business model

Direct sale or preorder of humanoid robots

Potential hardware subscription for NEO

Enterprise robot deployments and pilots

Strategic commercial partnerships

Robotics software, autonomy and developer-platform ecosystem

Funding

Stage

Series B; reported prospective Series C was not publicly confirmed as closed by the latest available evidence

Total raised

$136.5M

Latest round

Series B · Jan 2024

Latest amount

$100M

Reported prospective Series C (unconfirmed)

Sep 2025

$1B

Series B

Jan 2024 · EQT Ventures

$100M

Series A2

Mar 2023 · OpenAI Startup Fund

$23.5M

People & investors

Leadership

Bernt Øivind Børnich

Founder and CEO

Bill Nash

Chief Financial Officer

Tom Sanocki

Vice President of Engineering

Sam Sinha

Founding AI Researcher and Head of World Models

Amy Lentz

SVP of People

Vikram Kothari

Head/VP of Operations

Founders

Pål Løken

Early co-founder/acting CEO or board chair during the Halodi Robotics period

Investors

ADT Security / Valinor

Work & culture

Mission-driven, highly technical and fast-scaling; public hiring materials emphasize ambitious robotics/AI work, cross-functional ownership and onsite collaboration in California. Specific benefits are not publicly detailed in the reviewed evidence.

Work style

Onsite

Compensation

Public U.S. job notices show senior technical salary ranges of roughly $166,566–$350,000 and $199,763–$350,000 annually; equity and benefits details were not established from the available sources.

Product & market

Pricing

NEO was publicly reported at approximately $20,000 purchase price or $499/month subscription; enterprise pricing is undisclosed.

Differentiators

—Home-first deployment strategy intended to collect diverse real-world interaction data
—Integrated hardware, robot-learning, world-model and deployment stack
—Safety-oriented low-inertia actuators and human-compatible operation
—25-DOF tendon-driven hands designed for dexterity
—Consumer-oriented NEO alongside enterprise EVE products
—Strategic investor-to-customer channel through EQT

Technology

Humanoid robotics

Bipedal locomotion

Tendon-driven, 25-degree-of-freedom hands

Proprietary Revo1 direct-drive motors/actuators

Embodied AI

World models and video pretraining

Robot learning and teleoperation-assisted data collection

Simulation

NVIDIA robotics platform and onboard compute

Llama/GENIE-based world-model research

Customers

EQT portfolio companies (framework/strategic deployment opportunity for up to 10,000 NEO units between 2026 and 2030)

Enterprise logistics and guarding clients (names generally undisclosed)

Prospective consumer NEO buyers

Competitors

Figure AI

Agility Robotics

Apptronik

Sanctuary AI

Boston Dynamics

Tesla Optimus

Unitree Robotics

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Unavailable with confidence; one third-party estimate suggested approximately $10M–$20M annual revenue, while another unaudited estimate suggested much higher 2025 revenue. Treat public revenue estimates as unreliable.

Signals & risks

Other

Sep 2025

Reports said 1X was discussing a potential raise of up to $1 billion at a valuation of at least $10 billion; the round was not confirmed as closed in the reviewed public evidence.

Source

Other

Dec 2025

The EQT portfolio deployment agreement is strategically important but could concentrate early commercial demand through an investor-linked channel; TechCrunch reported up to 10,000 NEO units across EQT portfolio companies from 2026–2030.

Source

Latest news

1X Launches World Model Lab to Scale Humanoid Intelligence

1X Technologies · Jun 2026

1X established a frontier research lab focused on large-scale embodied world-model pretraining and hired Sam Sinha as Head of World Models.

Inside 1X’s Humanoid Robot Stack: Simulation, AI Training, and Onboard Compute with NVIDIA

1X Technologies · Jun 2026

The company described use of NVIDIA robotics tools across simulation, training and onboard inference.

1X partners with EQT to roll out humanoids across its portfolio companies

The Robot Report · Dec 2025

The partnership targets facility operations, logistics, warehousing, manufacturing and healthcare.

1X struck a deal to send its ‘home’ humanoids to factories and warehouses

TechCrunch · Dec 2025

EQT portfolio companies could receive up to 10,000 NEO robots between 2026 and 2030, broadening 1X’s focus from homes to industrial settings.

1X Secures $100M in Series B Funding

1X Technologies · Jan 2024

1X announced its $100 million Series B, led by EQT Ventures, to accelerate NEO and support enterprise clients.

Jobs and careers at 1X

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