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Sep 2025Reports 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.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
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
$1B
Jan 2024 · EQT Ventures
People & investors
Leadership
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
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
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
Dec 2025The 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.
SourceLatest news
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.
1X Technologies · Jun 2026
The company described use of NVIDIA robotics tools across simulation, training and onboard inference.
The Robot Report · Dec 2025
The partnership targets facility operations, logistics, warehousing, manufacturing and healthcare.
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.
Open Positions
80 jobs at 1X
Camera Hardware Engineer, Robot Head
On-site
Hardware Engineering
San Carlos, CA
1d ago
On-site
Full-time