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The humanoid home robot company — NEO brings a robot into your house for $20K
HQ: Palo Alto, CA, United States (founded in Norway) | Founded: 2015 | Employees: ~150 (2026, est.) | Stage: Late Stage VC (seeking ~$1B round at $10B+ valuation) | Website: https://www.1x.tech
1X Technologies was founded in 2015 in Norway as Halodi Robotics by Bernt Øyvind Børnich, a roboticist who believed general-purpose robots could coexist with humans — starting in the home. The company (renamed 1X, based in Palo Alto with a Norwegian heritage) built Eve, a wheeled android robot deployed for security and logistics duties, and spent years developing its signature 'soft robotics' approach: torque-controlled, compliant actuators that make robots safe around people rather than dangerously powerful.\n\n1X's breakthrough moment came in March 2023 when OpenAI's Startup Fund led its Series A2 — OpenAI's first robotics investment — putting 1X at the center of the humanoid-robot wave that exploded through 2024-2026 alongside Figure, Tesla Optimus, and Boston Dynamics. In January 2024
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