# 1X Technologies — Humanoid robots for the home.

1X Technologies builds general-purpose humanoid robots designed to live and work in people's homes. Its flagship NEO is a soft, bipedal home robot that handles everyday chores, evolved from the company's earlier EVE industrial robot.

Founded

2014

Headquarters

Moss, Norway

Category

Robotics, Hardware, Consumer

Legal name

1X Technologies AS

Legal domicile

Palo Alto, United States

1X Technologies’s legal entity is domiciled in Palo Alto, United States, outside Europe — which is a bit uncool.

## Highlights

Notable milestones from 1X Technologies’s journey — funding rounds, launches, and other moments worth knowing.

Launch - Oct 2025

### NEO opens for pre-order at $20,000

1X moved from R&D to product, taking $200 deposits for NEO at $20,000 outright or $499 a month, with US deliveries slated for 2026. Early units lean on human-in-the-loop teleoperation to handle the chores autonomy can't yet.

**1X markets NEO as a companion for the home, not a tool for the factory floor.**

[Source](https://www.therobotreport.com/1x-announces-pre-order-launch-neo-humanoid-robot/)

Partnership - Mar 2025

### Running on NVIDIA's GR00T at GTC

1X showed NEO powered by NVIDIA's GR00T N1 humanoid foundation model during Jensen Huang's GTC keynote, tying its home robot to the industry's emerging robotics-AI stack.

[Source](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerate-generalist-humanoid-robot-development-with-nvidia-isaac-gr00t-n1/)

Launch - Feb 2025

### NEO Gamma refines the home robot

The next iteration brought a quieter, more manufacturable design — a knit bodysuit, a natural balancing gait, and on-board AI for chores and conversation — as 1X started testing NEO inside real homes.

**NEO Gamma's soft knit shell and round face — designed to feel at home rather than industrial.**

[Source](https://www.1x.tech/discover/introducing-neo-gamma)

Launch - Aug 2024

### NEO Beta: a humanoid built for the home

1X revealed NEO Beta, a bipedal home humanoid wrapped in a soft knit suit with tendon-driven joints meant to be safe around people — a deliberate break from the heavy industrial machines its rivals were building.

[Source](https://www.1x.tech/discover/1x-introduces-neo-beta)

Funding - Jan 2024

### $100M Series B led by EQT Ventures

Sweden's EQT Ventures led a $100M round — with Samsung NEXT, Tiger Global and the OpenAI Startup Fund returning — taking total funding past $135M to push NEO from prototype toward production.

Round

Series B

Raised

$100M

Led by

EQT Ventures

[Source](https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/12/openai-backed-1x-raises-100m-to-build-androids/)

Funding - Mar 2023

### OpenAI's robotics bet: a $23.5M Series A2

The OpenAI Startup Fund led 1X's $23.5M round — one of OpenAI's earliest hardware investments — with Tiger Global and Norwegian backers joining as the company pivoted from industrial machines toward general-purpose humanoids.

Round

Series A2

Raised

$23.5M

Led by

OpenAI Startup Fund

[Source](https://www.1x.tech/discover/openai)

Team - Jan 2014

### Founded in Norway as Halodi Robotics

Roboticist Bernt Børnich started the company in Moss, Norway, building industrial humanoids and its own ultra-light Revo1 servo motor — the foundation it would later rename 1X and aim squarely at the home.

[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1X_Technologies)