1X Technologies

Oslo, NorwayEst. 201450-100 employeesPrivate

Creating androids to meet the world's labor demand.

About

1X Technologies is a Norwegian-American humanoid robotics company founded in 2014 as Halodi Robotics. It develops NEO, a bipedal home humanoid robot designed for household tasks, and EVE, a wheeled humanoid for industrial and institutional use. NEO launched for consumer pre-order in October 2025 at $20,000, with full-scale production underway at its Hayward, California factory as of April 2026. According to 1X Technologies.

Founded in 2014 in Norway as Halodi Robotics. Raised $23.5M Series A2 led by OpenAI Startup Fund in March 2023 and $100M Series B led by EQT Ventures in January 2024. According to 1X Technologies and Wikipedia.
Unveiled NEO Beta in August 2024 and opened consumer pre-orders on October 28, 2025 at $20,000 outright or $499/month — booking 10,000 pre-orders in five days. According to 1X Technologies and Forbes.
Commenced full-scale production at the NEO Factory in Hayward, California in April 2026 — described by 1X as America's first vertically integrated high-volume humanoid robot factory, with deliveries targeted before end of 2026. According to 1X Technologies and Forbes.
Launched the World Model Lab in June 2026 to develop physics-based AI for generalising across unseen home environments, with Sam Sinha (ex-Luma AI) as Head of World Models. According to 1X Technologies.

Company Details

Type	Private
Funding Status	Series B
Total Funding	$125M
Employees	50-100

Software Ecosystem

AI / Model Approach	Two distinct AI systems: (1) 1X World Model — physics-based world model that learns from video, prompts, and on-policy NEO robot data, enabling generalization to unseen tasks; (2) Redwood AI — proprietary vision-language transformer that controls NEO robots in real time for locomotion and manipulation. World Model Lab launched June 2026 with Sam Sinha (ex-Luma AI) as Head of World Models. According to 1X Technologies.
Training Methodology	Multi-source data flywheel: web-scale human video + egocentric human video + simulation + VR teleoperation data + on-policy NEO robot data. Proprioceptive sensor data (joint position, force, pressure) from deployed NEOs feeds back into training. Teleoperation treated as data bootstrap, not permanent dependency. According to 1X Technologies.
Developer Access	No public SDK or developer platform found as of July 2026.
Third-Party Integrations	NVIDIA robotics platform used across development pipeline for simulated training data and onboard model inference. According to 1X Technologies.