1X Technologies
Norway / US humanoid robot company — Eve (wheeled bimanual) + Neo (legged humanoid, consumer-targeted, late 2025 / 2026 launch). Raised $100M Series B (Jan-2024, EQT + OpenAI Startup Fund); $40M Series A (Mar-2023, OpenAI lead). Distinguishing feature: consumer-home positioning rather than industrial.
Active · Verified 2026-10-26 · fresh as of 2026-10-26 · 34 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T2
- Created
- 2014 (founded as Halodi Robotics) vendor fix
- Latest release
- NEO home humanoid (orders opened 2025-10-28; US deliveries slated 2026); NEO hands platform (2026-07-09) vendor fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- NEO: $20,000 early-access purchase (3-yr warranty) or $499/month subscription; $200 refundable deposit vendor fix
- Funding
- $100M Series B Jan-2024 (EQT + OpenAI Startup Fund); $40M Series A 2023 third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-26 fix
- Layer
- large-models repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: Consumer-home humanoid (Neo) vs Figure's industrial focus
Anti-fit: Consumer-home humanoid is unproven category; closed platform
Pros & cons
Pros
OpenAI-backed; consumer-home angle is differentiated; viral demos.
Cons
Smaller funding than Figure; consumer humanoid market unproven; closed weights.
Claims & capabilities
$100M Series B Jan-2024 (EQT + OpenAI); home-consumer humanoid (Neo) targeting 2025+
Technical surface
- API surface
- No public API
- Backend storage
- Internal 1X cloud
- Deployment
- Direct customer (industrial Eve + consumer Neo)
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- Per-customer fleet
- MCP
- not applicable — wrong section
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
Similar systems
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- Physical Intelligence (π) T1
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- Agility Robotics T2
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- Collaborative Robotics T3
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- Covariant T2
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Sources (33 cited facts, 1 third-party)
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- What it is Humanoid robot maker (Neo / Eve) — OpenAI portfolio vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Norway / US humanoid robot company — Eve (wheeled bimanual) + Neo (legged humanoid, cons… vendor
- Claims / benefits $100M Series B Jan-2024 (EQT + OpenAI); home-consumer humanoid (Neo) targeting 2025+ vendor
- Modalities vision + language + bimanual action vendor
- Created 2014 (founded as Halodi Robotics) vendor
- Latest release NEO home humanoid (orders opened 2025-10-28; US deliveries slated 2026); NEO hands platf… vendor
- Mindshare Strong viral demos; consumer-home angle differentiates from Figure/Apptronik vendor
- Funding $100M Series B Jan-2024 (EQT + OpenAI Startup Fund); $40M Series A 2023 third-party
- Customers / scale Eve pilot deployments; Neo pre-orders / waitlist for consumer vendor
- Pricing NEO: $20,000 early-access purchase (3-yr warranty) or $499/month subscription; $200 refu… vendor
- Data handling Internal trajectory data; closed weights vendor
- Deployment Direct customer (industrial Eve + consumer Neo) vendor
- HQ Norway (Moss) + US (Sunnyvale) vendor
- Founders / pedigree Bernt Børnich (CEO; founded as Halodi Robotics 2014) vendor
- Memory volume / scale Eve pilots (~10s of units); Neo pre-orders vendor
- Performance Demo videos: pour, fold, manipulate; no public benchmarks vendor
- API surface No public API vendor
- Backend storage Internal 1X cloud vendor
- Multi-tenancy Per-customer fleet vendor
- Encryption Enterprise-grade vendor
- Versioning Eve / Neo generation versioning vendor
- Namespace primitives per-customer fleet vendor
- Validated verticals industrial (Eve) + consumer-home (Neo) vendor
- Time to running Months (industrial deployment); Neo home-consumer launch not GA as of 2025 — pre-order w… vendor
- Anti-fit Consumer-home humanoid is unproven category; closed platform vendor
- Optimised for Consumer-home humanoid (Neo) vs Figure's industrial focus vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure OpenAI Startup Fund portfolio; Norwegian / US robotics ecosystem vendor
- Pros OpenAI-backed; consumer-home angle is differentiated; viral demos. vendor
- Cons Smaller funding than Figure; consumer humanoid market unproven; closed weights. vendor
- Project & sources 1x.tech vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup large-models repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-26
- Latest release “Neo (consumer humanoid, 2025-2026 launch)” → “NEO home humanoid (orders opened 2025-10-28; US deliveries slated 2026); NEO hands platform (2026-07-09)” source
- Pricing “not applicable — wrong section” → “NEO: $20,000 early-access purchase (3-yr warranty) or $499/month subscription; $200 refundable deposit” source
Related systems
References (1)
- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: OpenAI Startup Fund portfolio; Norwegian / US robotics ecosystem