A household robot that uses patterns learned from video to guide its movements.
1X Technologies Funding History
1X Technologies is a Norwegian robotics company that builds humanoid robots. Its NEO household robot uses world models trained on video.
Company Overview
1X Technologies
Oslo, Norway
Official Website1X Technologies Funding Timeline
Series B
US$100 million
1X planned to bring its NEO home humanoid to market and support existing enterprise customers in logistics and guarding. The announcement also described a secondary transaction.
Led by EQT Ventures.
Source · 1x.tech ↗Series A2
US$23.5 million
1X planned to develop its bipedal robot NEO and expand production of EVE, its existing wheeled robot, in Norway and North America.
Led by OpenAI Startup Fund. Participation included Tiger Global.
Source · 1x.tech ↗
1X Technologies Founding Team
Bernt Børnich started the company as Halodi Robotics to build general-purpose robots that could work alongside people.
1X Technologies Products
1X Technologies Company Development
Taking Humanoids into the Home
With NEO, 1X put household tasks at the center of its humanoid program. Its approach uses video-pretrained world models to give the robot context about how actions play out around it.
1X Technologies Competitive Landscape
Home Tasks Versus Logistics
NEO targets household work, where rooms and objects vary from one task to the next. Agility Robotics’ Digit addresses material handling in facilities, where totes, stations and routes define a more bounded workflow.
