1X Technologies News

Latest 1X Technologies news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. $123.5M raised. 13 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.

About 1X Technologies

Key facts

• Headquarters: Moss, Norway / Sunnyvale, California, USA
• Country: Norway
• Founded: 2014
• Sectors: Humanoid Robotics
• Website: https://www.1x.tech

Products by 1X Technologies

• NEO Hand (Robot, 2026) — 1X's tendon-driven robotic hand for the NEO humanoid, delivering 25 degrees of freedom (22 in the fingers and palm, 3 at the wrist) with force-controlled, backd...
• Neo (Robot, 2026) — Neo is 1X Technologies' bipedal general-purpose humanoid designed for home, enterprise and developer deployments. Manufactured at 1X's Hayward, California and S...

Funding rounds

• Series B — $100M — 2024 — led by EQT Ventures
• Series A — $23.5M — 2023 — led by OpenAI Startup Fund

Latest 1X Technologies news

• Meta Built a 106-Pound Humanoid Robot With China's Fourier in Just 3 Months — Meta and China's Fourier built a 106-pound humanoid prototype called Max in three months, running on Nvidia's Jetson Thor chip, as Meta tests a physic...
• Unitree Puts A 22-DoF Robotic Hand On Every Developer's Desk For $6,500 — Unitree's new Dex5-S dexterous hand offers 22 backdrivable joints at 1:1 human size for $6,500, a price point aimed at accelerating manipulation resea...
• 1X Sets 50,000-Robot NEO Shipment Target For 2027 — 1X CEO Bernt Bornich says the humanoid start-up will ship 50,000 NEO robots in 2027 from two California factories with combined capacity of 110,000 un...
• 1X's Bernt Børnich Targets 50,000 Neo Robots In 2026 — With Reliability As The Real Gate — 1X Technologies CEO Bernt Børnich has publicly set a 2026 shipment target of 50,000 Neo humanoids, saying the harder problem isn't building them but k...
• SoftBank In Talks For Majority Stake In 1X At $6B, Well Below 1X's $10B Ask — SoftBank is negotiating a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid startup 1X Technologies at a roughly $6 billion valuation, The Information reports.
• BYD Confirms August Humanoid Robot Debut Inside Its Di Space Venues — BYD told China Securities Journal its first humanoid robot will appear this month at Di Space, its offline experience-centre network, alongside plans...
• SoftBank In Talks For Majority Stake In 1X At $6 Billion Valuation — SoftBank is negotiating to buy a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid maker 1X Technologies at a roughly $6 billion valuation, a 40% haircut from...
• 1X Unveils 25-DoF NEO Hand With Tendon Drive And IP68 Grip — 1X's new NEO hand packs 25 degrees of freedom, tendon-driven joints, tactile fingertips and IP68 waterproofing, with a production line capable of 10,0...
• 1X Unveils 25-DOF Tendon-Driven Hand for NEO Humanoid — 1X Technologies has revealed a redesigned tendon-driven hand for its NEO humanoid — 25 degrees of freedom, IP68 sealing, tactile skin — that it says w...
• MACHINA Physical AI Summit Debuts in Paris With NVIDIA, DeepMind, 1X — Europe's first dedicated Physical AI event debuted at Station F in Paris on July 7 with talks from NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, 1X, Apptronik, Boston Dyna...
• OpenAI Spins Up OpenAI Robotics Division, Hiring For Physical-World Buildout — Sam Altman confirms an in-house robotics division aimed at building robots for data center, grid and factory construction — OpenAI's most explicit har...
• 1X Opens NEO Factory In Hayward, California — America's First Vertically Integrated Humanoid Robot Plant — 1X Technologies has begun production at its 58,000-square-foot NEO Factory in Hayward, California — America's first vertically integrated humanoid rob...
• Humanoid Robots: From WABOT-1 to a Multi-Trillion-Dollar Market — From WABOT-1 and ASIMO to Tesla Optimus and Figure: a deep look at how humanoid robots evolved, the record investment pouring in, the startups launchi...