1X Technologies

• NEO
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  NEO

• Target Annual Humanoid Shipments

  50,000 NEO shipments targeted in 2027 - 2026-09-18 - In a Relentless interview published on 18 September 2026, 1X CEO Bernt Børnich outlined a target to manufacture and ship 50,000 NEO home robots in 2027. - source posture: Company Disclosed

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• 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 has capacity to produce up to 10,000 robots per year. This is stated capacity rather than confirmed annual output. - source posture: Company Disclosed

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• 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 to scale production toward 100,000-plus robots annually by the end of 2027. This is a forward target, not current installed capacity. - source posture: Company Disclosed

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• Vertical Integration Scope

  actuator manufacturing, robot assembly and testing planned together - 2024-04-02 - 1X Moss manufacturing facility programme - In April 2024, 1X said it was developing a Moss facility intended to place actuator manufacturing, robot assembly and testing next to its engineering campus. - source posture: Company Disclosed

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Supply chain relationships

• Hand production capacity

  Integration - Product - 1X reports hundreds of hands have already come off a scalable line and says the line has capacity to produce 10,000 hands this year.

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• Hand stack internalization

  Integration - Product - 1X says every NEO hand is built end-to-end in-house, from tendon materials and 1X Motors through soft polymers, skin, and tactile sensing.

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• NEO critical-component internalization

  Integration - Product - 1X says it designs and manufactures NEO critical components in-house, including motors, batteries, structures, transmission systems, soft goods, and sensors.

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• NEO factory vertical integration

  Integration - Factory - 1X describes the Hayward NEO Factory as a vertically integrated humanoid robot factory and says it maintains end-to-end control across critical component manufacturing.

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• NEO annual production capacity

  Integration - Production Capacity - 1X says the Hayward factory and San Carlos ramp give it capacity for up to 10,000 NEOs per year, with automation intended to scale toward 100,000+ units annually by the end of 2027.

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• NVIDIA

  Inbound - Compute & Control - 1X NEO uses NVIDIA Jetson Thor for onboard multimodal inference

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• NVIDIA

  Inbound - Software - 1X NEO uses NVIDIA Argus to process camera data for low-latency visual inference

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• Mecka AI

  Inbound - Data - Mecka AI supplies human-activity training data for 1X robot-learning programme

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• 2024-01-13 - Series B - $100M - 1X Technologies Closes $100 Million Series B

  1X announced a $100M Series B financing round. - source: 1x.tech

• 2023-03-23 - Series A2 - $23.5M - 1X raises $23.5M Series A2 led by OpenAI Startup Fund

  1X announced a $23.5M Series A2 round led by OpenAI Startup Fund to accelerate humanoid robotics development. - source: 1x.tech

• Sandwater - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-03-23 - latest 2024-01-13
• Skagerak Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-03-23 - latest 2024-01-13
• Alliance Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-03-23
• EQT Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-01-13
• Nistad Group - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-01-13
• OpenAI Startup Fund - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-03-23
• Samsung NEXT - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2024-01-13
• Tiger Global - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-03-23

• Bernt Øyvind Børnich - Founder and Chief Executive Officer
• Dar Sleeper - VP of Product and Design - Directs product and industrial-design work for NEO as 1X prepares the home robot for customer delivery.
• Bill Nash - Chief Financial Officer - Leads finance organization building, strategic partnerships, and growth-stage financial controls.
• Tom Sanocki - VP of Engineering - Directs the software-engineering organisation supporting NEO, Redwood AI and the associated customer platform.
• Sam Sinha - Founding AI Researcher and Head of World Models - Leads 1X World Model Lab work on embodied world-model pretraining for humanoid intelligence.

• 1X Technologies introduces 1XWM world model for NEO robot

  2026-01-12 - Research Publication - 1XWM leverages video pretraining to enhance NEO's understanding of physical dynamics and object interactions. The model allows NEO to generalize actions across novel tasks and unseen objects, improving its adaptability. A two-stage training process aligns the model with NEO's kinematics, ensuring accurate real-world execution.

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• 1X releases the 1X World Model for humanoid policy evaluation and scaling

  2025-06-16 - Research Publication - 1X shared progress on 1XWM, a world model that predicts the consequences of NEO's actions and accelerates policy evaluation without relying only on real-world physical testing. The post highlights action controllability, scaling results across tasks, and correlation between world-model forecasts and real-world robot outcomes. The release adds a first-party evaluation and training-system release to 1X's research history, not just a task demo.

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• 1X introduces Redwood AI for end-to-end mobile manipulation on NEO

  2025-06-10 - Research Publication - 1X introduced Redwood as a vision-language transformer for humanoid mobile manipulation, covering tasks such as retrieving objects, opening doors, and navigation in the home. The company says Redwood runs on NEO's onboard GPU, jointly controls locomotion and manipulation, and learns from a diverse dataset collected on EVE and NEO. The release gives 1X a first-party foundation-model release that belongs on both the company research tab and the NEO product research feed.

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Media library

• NEO home workflow

  image · Courtesy of 1X

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• NEO profile view

  image · Courtesy of 1X

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• 1X World Model

  video · 1X

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Official technical reports, developer material, press-kit assets and portfolio media for 1X Technologies.

• 1X press gallery

  WEB · 1X product portfolio · 1X Technologies

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• NEO press asset pack

  ZIP · NEO · 1X Technologies

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• 1X World Model: Evaluating Bits, not Atoms

  PDF · 1X World Model · 1X Technologies

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• 1X World Model Challenge repository

  WEB · 1X World Model Challenge · 1X Technologies

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Events

• 2026-08-26 - Market Signal - Report says SoftBank is discussing a majority stake in 1X

  The Information attributed the talks to people familiar with the matter, and Reuters said it could not independently confirm the report. SoftBank declined to comment and 1X did not immediately respond to Reuters. No agreement had been announced, and the reported terms remained subject to change.

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• 2026-07-09 - Production Milestone - 1X reports hundreds of NEO hands produced on line rated for 10,000 in 2026

  1X said hundreds of hands had already come off its dedicated scalable production line. The company stated that the line has capacity to produce 10,000 hands in 2026; this is production capacity, not confirmed output. The tendon-driven NEO hand has 25 degrees of freedom and is built end-to-end in-house for the NEO humanoid.

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• 2026-07-02 - Executive Hire - 1X appoints Bill Nash as chief financial officer

  Bill Nash joined 1X after serving as chief financial officer at Ursa Major and Cruise. 1X said Nash will lead its finance organization as the company scales NEO manufacturing and commercialization. The appointment was announced on July 2, 2026.

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• 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. His remit includes the software roadmap as 1X advances NEO from prototypes toward consumer products. The appointment supports 1X’s developer-platform work for humanoid applications.

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• 2026-06-24 - Market Signal - 1X accelerates plans to deliver NEO to developers

  Børnich said 1X would accelerate plans to deliver NEO to developers and would provide dates and specifics later. He positioned NEO as a safe, affordable and capable humanoid development platform for researchers and robotics startups. Børnich said the developer initiative does not change the home-customer roadmap and argued that it should improve the consumer product.

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• 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. The lab is led by Sam Sinha, who previously worked on large-scale multimodal generative foundation models at Luma AI. 1X said the lab will combine web-scale media, egocentric human videos, simulation, dexterous teleoperated robot data, and on-policy NEO data to improve real-world humanoid deployment.

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• 2026-04-30 - Facility Opening - 1X brings NEO Factory online in Hayward, California

  The Hayward facility commenced full-scale NEO production with more than 200 employees. 1X said it designs and manufactures critical components in-house, including motors, batteries, structures, transmissions, soft goods and sensors; its latest NEO iteration went from CAD to walking in one month. The factory has capacity for up to 10,000 NEO robots per year, with further automation and a planned San Carlos facility supporting a target above 100,000 annually by the end of 2027.

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• 2026-03-17 - Capability - 1X details NVIDIA compute and vision stack for NEO

  Jetson Thor runs NEO multimodal models locally for low-latency perception, reasoning and control. NVIDIA Argus processes camera data within NEO perception stack for low-latency visual inference. 1X uses Blackwell HGX B200 GPUs to train robot foundation models on simulated and real-world data.

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• 2026-01-12 - Research Publication - 1X Technologies introduces 1XWM world model for NEO robot

  1XWM leverages video pretraining to enhance NEO's understanding of physical dynamics and object interactions. The model allows NEO to generalize actions across novel tasks and unseen objects, improving its adaptability. A two-stage training process aligns the model with NEO's kinematics, ensuring accurate real-world execution.

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• 2026-01-09 - Executive Hire - 1X hires Mohi Khansari to lead robot learning

  1X announced Mohi Khansari as Head of Robot Learning. The appointment put Khansari in charge of robot-learning strategy, model work, and policy development for humanoid autonomy. 1X is a humanoid robotics company developing NEO, a soft, tendon-driven home robot designed for safe interaction in everyday environments.

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• 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. 1X's shift in strategy reflects challenges in the home robotics market, emphasizing safety and privacy concerns. 1X is a humanoid robotics company developing NEO, a soft, tendon-driven home robot designed for safe interaction in everyday environments.

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• 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. The companies plan to develop and deploy production-ready robotics solutions with select customers. Target sectors include manufacturing, utilities, aviation, and other asset-intensive operating environments.

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• 2025-10-28 - Product Launch - 1X launches NEO as a consumer-ready humanoid home robot

  1X announced NEO as a consumer-ready home humanoid for chores, personalized assistance and natural interaction. For tasks NEO does not yet know, owners can schedule a 1X Expert to guide the robot through the task while NEO learns. Early Access was priced at $20,000 with priority delivery in 2026; 1X also announced a later $499-per-month subscription option.

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• 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 policy evaluation without relying only on real-world physical testing. The post highlights action controllability, scaling results across tasks, and correlation between world-model forecasts and real-world robot outcomes. The release adds a first-party evaluation and training-system release to 1X's research history, not just a task demo.

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• 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 retrieving objects, opening doors, and navigation in the home. The company says Redwood runs on NEO's onboard GPU, jointly controls locomotion and manipulation, and learns from a diverse dataset collected on EVE and NEO. The release gives 1X a first-party foundation-model release that belongs on both the company research tab and the NEO product research feed.

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• 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. 1X described work spanning a dataset API, inference SDK, and NVIDIA GR00T N1 model integration.

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• 2025-01-27 - Acquisition - 1X acquires Kind Humanoid

  Kind Humanoid had developed Mona, a home-focused humanoid robot. 1X positioned the deal as a way to accelerate development of humanoid robots for household use.

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• 2024-08-30 - Product Launch - 1X unveils NEO Beta humanoid robot for consumer home use

  The NEO Beta launch marks a major milestone for 1X as the company transitions from conceptual development to bringing humanoid robots into consumer households. Doing so means we are taking another step toward achieving our mission.” 1X’s mission is to create an abundant supply of physical labor through safe, intelligent humanoids that work alongside people. First general-purpose controller enables full exploration of bipedal humanoid robot's kinematic workspace.

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• 2024-04-02 - Manufacturing - 1X outlines vertically integrated manufacturing site in Moss

  The planned site would co-locate actuator manufacturing, robot assembly and testing. 1X positioned the facility next to its Moss campus and engineering team to shorten feedback loops. The company described the programme as supporting vertically integrated EVE and NEO production.

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• 2024-01-13 - Funding - 1X Technologies Closes $100 Million Series B

  1X announced a $100M Series B financing round. The capital is intended to support scaling of NEO development and go-to-market execution. The round strengthens 1X's funding base for next-stage humanoid product and operations growth.

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• 2023-03-23 - Org Change - Halodi Robotics rebrands company as 1X Technologies

  Halodi Robotics announced its rebrand from Halodi Robotics to 1X Technologies. The company said the 1X name aligned its identity with its long-term general-purpose android roadmap. 1X is a humanoid robotics company developing NEO, a soft, tendon-driven home robot designed for safe interaction in everyday environments.

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• 2023-03-23 - Funding - 1X raises $23.5M Series A2 led by OpenAI Startup Fund

  1X announced a $23.5M Series A2 funding round. OpenAI Startup Fund led the round. The financing was positioned to accelerate humanoid robotics R&D and product development.

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Profile notes

• NEO's early home service combines autonomy with scheduled remote assistance

  reviewed 2026-07-18 - 1X is placing NEO in homes before the robot can complete every household task autonomously. NEO handles familiar work through its autonomy system, while scheduled Expert Mode allows remote specialists to guide the robot through tasks it does not yet know.

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• 1X shifted from wheeled industrial androids toward a home humanoid programme

  reviewed 2026-07-20 - The company now called 1X began as Halodi Robotics and commercialised the wheeled EVE platform for guarded and industrial environments. After rebranding, it made the bipedal NEO home robot the centre of its public strategy while retaining EVE as a separate deployed platform. NEO is therefore a change in target environment and embodiment, not simply the next generation of the same industrial robot.

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Relationships

• NVIDIA

  Autonomy Technology Collaborator - 1X and NVIDIA collaborated on NEO autonomy tooling, dataset workflows, and GR00T N1 work.

• Kind Humanoid

  Acquired Company - 1X acquired Kind Humanoid, developer of the Mona home humanoid robot.

• EQT

  Commercial Order - 10,000 NEO robots to EQT portfolio companies by 2030

• Mecka AI

  Partner - Mecka AI has worked with 1X Technologies as an early robotics customer for human activity data used in robot learning.

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Context tags

• Humanoid service robot builder - Workflow - Core peer group: Neo/NEO humanoid for service and home contexts
• Dexterous manipulation - Capability - Hand and arm manipulation disclosed
• 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
• Pilot deployments - Commercial Stage - Pilot deployments with disclosed customers
• Factories - Customer Environment - Initial target environments include industrial facilities