1X Technologies

1X Technologies (formerly Halodi Robotics) is a Norwegian-American humanoid robotics company backed by the OpenAI Startup Fund, EQT Ventures, and Tiger Global, having raised over $130 million including a $100 million Series B in January 2024. Founded in 2014, 1X builds NEO — a bipedal humanoid priced at $20,000 to purchase or $499 per month on subscription — targeting both home environments and industrial settings.

The company opened a humanoid manufacturing factory in Hayward, California with initial capacity to produce 10,000 NEO units per year, scaling to 100,000 units by end of 2027. 1X struck a landmark commercial deal with EQT portfolio of over 300 companies for NEO deployments across manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, facility operations, and healthcare between 2026 and 2030.

NEO features force-limited actuators and human-biomechanics-inspired body design for safe human interaction. The OpenAI connection gives 1X access to frontier AI for embodied cognition, with NEO designed to follow natural language instructions without task-specific programming — making it the clearest commercial bet on OpenAI multimodal models powering general-purpose physical AI.