1X Technologies AS is a Norwegian-American robotics company founded in 2014 (originally as Halodi Robotics, rebranded in 2023) that designs and builds general-purpose humanoid robots for home and industrial environments. The company has raised over $126 million in funding with backing from OpenAI, and operates from its global headquarters in Palo Alto. With 87 open roles currently posted, the company is actively scaling its engineering teams across multiple technical domains including actuator design, reinforcement learning, and robotics safety engineering.
The company's technical approach centers on tendon-driven actuators inspired by human musculature, combined with proprietary AI systems for autonomous operation. Their flagship consumer product, NEO, is a 5'6" humanoid weighing 66 lbs with a lift capacity of 154 lbs, designed to perform household tasks such as vacuuming, folding laundry, and retrieving items. NEO is powered by Redwood AI, the company's proprietary generalist model trained on real-world data through imitation learning and expert demonstrations. The robot is engineered for safety, energy efficiency, and low acoustic signature - critical constraints for home deployment. Early access is planned for 2026 with a $200 deposit.
Before NEO, 1X developed and deployed EVE, an industrial humanoid robot currently operating in customer facilities globally. This deployment experience provides the foundation for their consumer robotics work, with engineering emphasis on machine learning from field data, autonomous operation in unstructured environments, and hardware-software integration at the actuator level. The company's stated mission is to create general-purpose robots that can learn alongside humans, with the technical objective of bringing humanoid robots into homes worldwide by 2026.