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1X Technologies

1X Technologies (formerly Halodi) is a Norwegian-Estonian humanoid robotics company developing NEO — a general-purpose home humanoid robot.

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Founded
2014
HQ
Palo Alto, CA, USA (R&D in Oslo, Norway)
Status
private

The verified answer

As of Aug 2026, DEPLOY verifies 1X Technologies: 4 models, 7 deployments across 6 regions, $125.0M raised. 12 sources back the record.

Funding

$125.0M

Models

4

Deployments

7

Patents

2

Overview

1X Technologies (formerly Halodi) is a Norwegian-Estonian humanoid robotics company developing NEO — a general-purpose home humanoid robot. Founded by Bernt Børnich. Raised $100M Series B. Backed by OpenAI Startup Fund. NEO designed for home use: bipedal walking, human-like manipulation, safe around humans. Developing own world model for embodied intelligence. Headquartered in Oslo with engineering in Estonia.

Verified record

Verified deployments
7 deployments on file
Active incidents
None on file

Valuation of record

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$820M (reported, approximate)as of Jan 2024

Priced roundSeries B post-money

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Key facts

Robots

NEO (home humanoid), EVE (wheeled office/security)

NEO availability

Preorders Oct 2025 at $20,000; $499/mo rental; 2026 delivery

Near-term operation

Largely vetted teleoperators (VR/app-scheduled), not yet fully autonomous

Fundingsee investors →

~$125M+ total

Backerssee investors →

OpenAI, Tiger Global

Manufacturingsee manufacturing →

In-house, Norway-based (vertically integrated)

wikidata

wikidata.org

wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Founder & CEO

Bernt Børnich

Product

NEO — general-purpose home humanoid robot

Total fundingsee investors →

$100M Series B

Key investor

OpenAI Startup Fund

AI

Developing own world model for embodied intelligence

Data & sources

Press releases

2

News coverage

5

Patent documents

2

Web sources

3

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Models (4)

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Previous platform

NEO

NEO is 1X Technologies' bipedal humanoid robot designed for household use. Features humanlike motion and a slim anthropomorphic design. NEO Beta was introduced August 2024, updated to NEO Gamma in February 2025, and pre-orders opened October 2025 at $20,000. As of late 2025, most tasks are teleoperated by humans via VR headsets.

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Current platform

NEO Gamma

1X Technologies' NEO Gamma is the next generation of its home humanoid, redesigned for domestic environments with roughly 10x improved hardware reliability and ~10 dB lower noise (refrigerator-level); 1X began testing it in homes in 2025.

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Retired

EVE

EVE is 1X Technologies' wheeled humanoid robot, an android upper body on a wheeled mobile base, deployed for security, logistics, and remote-operation use cases. It predates 1X's bipedal consumer humanoid NEO and shares 1X's world-model AI approach. EVE established 1X's commercial deployment track record before the consumer-focused NEO. Depth note: current commercial status should be confirmed at next pass. 1X's public messaging has shifted toward the consumer NEO, and EVE's active-deployment footprint as of mid-2026 versus its earlier enterprise rollout should be firmed against primary sources.

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Current platform

NEO

1X Technologies' consumer-oriented bipedal humanoid for the home, announced October 2025. ~167 cm and ~30 kg with a soft 3D-lattice-polymer body and a machine-washable knit cover, tendon-driven actuation, and 22-DOF hands. Priced at $20,000 (or $499/month subscription) with first U.S. shipments targeted for 2026. Uses human-in-the-loop teleoperation alongside onboard AI.

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1X Technologies on the deployment map

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Relationships

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Claims ledger

Public, dated claims by 1X Technologies, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.

Claim Integrity: 0% (0 of 2 resolved claims verified; 4 tracked)
  • OpenTimeline · claimed 2026-06-04 · deadline 2026-12-31
    “Neo will ship something by end of year that is useful with full autonomy”

    Claim made June 2026. NEO pre-orders are open ($20K purchase / $499/mo lease). 1X opened US plant to build 10,000 home robots in 2026. However, WSJ confirmed current units are teleoperated. Whether "full autonomy" will be achieved by year-end remains to be seen. https://www.briefs.co/news/1x-robots-neo/

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  • Partly trueCapability · claimed 2026-06-01
    “NEO is built for full autonomy. Early Access offers foundational autonomy, and with continued use, NEO learns and unlocks new capabilities”

    1X's own language ("Early Access offers foundational autonomy") acknowledges current capability is limited. WSJ hands-on review confirmed NEO is currently teleoperated: "First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home." https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/i-tried-the-robot-thats-coming-to-live-with-you-its-still-part-human-68515d44

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  • Partly trueCapability · claimed 2026-06-01
    “NEO is a safe humanoid robot that does your chores and offers personalized assistance”

    The marketing video shows NEO performing chores (folding, cleaning) but WSJ confirmed these tasks are currently teleoperated, not autonomous. The "does your chores" claim is technically true (a teleoperator can do chores via NEO) but misleading in context.

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  • OpenCapacity · claimed 2026-06-01 · deadline 2026-12-31
    “10,000 home robots in 2026”

    1X opened a US plant. Production capacity and actual deliveries not yet confirmed. Pre-orders are open but no confirmed delivery numbers published.

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Explainers

Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about 1X Technologies, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.

How much will Optimus 3 cost?
No confirmed price exists for Optimus 3 (the Gen 3 / V3 production design). Tesla has never published a Gen-3-specific price. The only figure quoted is Elon Musk's general $20,000 to $30,000 at-scale target from the October 2024 We, Robot event, a claimed manufacturer projection that has repeatedly slipped, not a verified or Gen-3-specific price.Read the full explainer →
Can a Tesla Optimus clean a house, cook, do laundry, or drive a car?
Not at consumer-deployment scale. As of mid-2026, Tesla Optimus has been demonstrated walking, performing battery-cell sorting inside Tesla factories, and folding clothes / handling objects / serving drinks at staged events. Tesla acknowledged some of the most-shared demos involved teleoperation, not autonomous control. Optimus has not cleaned a house, cooked a meal, done a full laundry workflow, or driven a car under unprompted autonomous control in any customer environment. The shipped autonomous capability is narrower than the marketing reel suggests; consumer-deployment task capability is claimed-with-demonstration-evidence, not verified.Read the full explainer →
How fast is Tesla Optimus improving?
Tesla publishes a steady cadence of Optimus improvement claims (generation reveals, factory-learning narrative, capability demonstrations) but verified external-deployment evidence remains thin. Per Tesla disclosure, ~300-500 Optimus units operate in factory-learning phase at Tesla facilities; no verified third-party customer deployments exist. Per DEPLOY's framework, capability-improvement claims sit at consumer-promised tier; trajectory framing attaches editorial accountability that subsequent events will be measured against.Read the full explainer →
How much does a humanoid robot cost in 2026?
Humanoid robot pricing in 2026 spans five availability tiers with different verification states. Research-tools pricing is verified and publicly listed (Unitree G1 at $13,500-$16,000; R1 at $5,900). Consumer-available pricing is verified (1X NEO at $20,000 outright purchase or $499/month subscription, six-month minimum). Enterprise-deployed pricing is not publicly disclosed (Figure 03, Apptronik Apollo, Agility Digit under contract; analyst estimates put the range at $50,000-$250,000). Consumer-promised pricing is a claim (Tesla Optimus at $20,000-$30,000 at-scale target). Engineering-credibility tier hardware costs $200,000+ but is enterprise R&D only (Boston Dynamics Atlas).Read the full explainer →
Can I buy a humanoid robot in 2026?
Yes, but the answer depends on what you mean by buy. Five tiers of humanoid availability exist in 2026: consumer-available (1X NEO at $20,000 outright or $499/month subscription, six-month minimum); research-tools-pricing (Unitree G1 at $13,500-$16,000 and R1 at $5,900); enterprise-deployed (Figure, Apptronik, Agility under contract); consumer-promised but not shipping (Tesla Optimus); and engineering-credibility with commercial transition pending (Boston Dynamics Atlas). Which fits your need depends on whether you're a consumer, a developer, an enterprise procurement organization, or waiting on Tesla.Read the full explainer →
Which is the cheapest humanoid robot you can buy?
The Unitree R1 is the cheapest walking humanoid robot commercially available in 2026 at $5,900 base (smaller-form mass-market consumer + developer platform launched July 2025). For a full-size bipedal humanoid, the Unitree G1 starts at roughly $13,500 to $16,000 base. Both are made by Unitree Robotics (Hangzhou, China) and represent the most aggressively priced humanoid platforms commercially available; every other publicly-listed humanoid is meaningfully more expensive.Read the full explainer →
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What is the best humanoid robot to buy in 2026?
There is no single best humanoid robot in 2026; the right pick depends on which of the five availability tiers matches your use case. For consumer home use, 1X NEO is the only verified-available option ($20,000 outright or $499/month subscription with a six-month minimum; late-2026 US delivery). For research and developer access, the Unitree G1 is the practical choice. For warehouse and factory pilots, Agility Digit, Apptronik Apollo, and Figure 03 are the platforms with documented commercial deployments. For elite R&D, Boston Dynamics Atlas remains the dynamic-motion benchmark. Tesla Optimus remains consumer-promised but not for sale.Read the full explainer →
Who are the leading humanoid robot makers?
By active commercial deployment activity in 2026, the leading humanoid robot makers are Tesla (Optimus, factory pilots), Figure AI (02, BMW pilot), Agility Robotics (Digit, warehouse operators), Apptronik (Apollo, Mercedes-Benz pilot), 1X Technologies (Neo, consumer pre-launch), Boston Dynamics (Atlas, R&D), and Unitree Robotics (G1/H-series, research). A fast-growing Chinese cohort (UBTech, Xiaomi, XPeng, Fourier, EngineAI, and others) is shipping platforms at increasingly competitive price points.Read the full explainer →
Can humanoid robots replace human workers?
Not at labor-market scale in 2026. Verified enterprise deployments operate at pilot scope: Figure 02 at BMW Spartanburg assembled 30,000 vehicles over 11 months; Agility Digit at GXO Flowery Branch handles 100,000 totes per year; Apptronik Apollo runs 3 Fortune-500 pilots; 1X NEO performs consumer household tasks with explicit teleoperation disclosure. These are meaningful capability demonstrations but not workforce-displacement at scale. The framework reads workforce-replacement claims as long-horizon trajectory rather than near-term reality.Read the full explainer →
Is 1X NEO autonomous, or is it controlled by humans?
1X Technologies has explicitly disclosed that NEO relies on remote human teleoperators for complex household tasks during the consumer rollout phase. NEO is a teleop-bridged humanoid, not a fully autonomous one. 1X frames the teleoperation as the deliberate strategic path to consumer scale, not a stop-gap.Read the full explainer →
Is Figure AI a Chinese company?
No. Figure AI is a US company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2022 by American entrepreneur Brett Adcock. The confusion likely reflects the substantial Chinese humanoid-manufacturer presence in the broader category (Unitree, AgiBot, UBTech), but Figure AI is American.Read the full explainer →
What is Figure 03?
Figure 03 is the third-generation humanoid robot from Figure AI, a US humanoid manufacturer based in Sunnyvale, California. The robot stands 173 cm (about 5'8"), weighs 61 kg, and is currently in active pilot deployment at a Catalyst Brands distribution logistics center. It is not available for consumer purchase as of mid-2026.Read the full explainer →
What is Apptronik Apollo and how does it compare to other humanoids?
Apptronik Apollo is a bipedal humanoid robot from Apptronik, a US humanoid maker based in Austin, Texas with NASA Valkyrie research heritage. Apollo is deployed in enterprise pilots across three Fortune-500 customers (Mercedes-Benz, GXO Logistics, Jabil) and represents the enterprise-breadth strategy in the humanoid commercial deployment landscape.Read the full explainer →
Is Boston Dynamics Atlas commercially available?
No, not yet. Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid is in research-to-commercial transition following the April 2024 reveal of the new electric Atlas platform. The company's quadruped Spot is the commercially-verified product line; Atlas commercial deployment timeline has not been announced. Boston Dynamics is owned by Hyundai Motor Group, which positions Atlas for industrial/enterprise rather than consumer markets.Read the full explainer →
How much do the Unitree G1 and R1 humanoid robots cost?
Unitree's G1 humanoid robot starts at roughly $13,500 to $16,000 for a base research-grade configuration, with more advanced versions running higher. The smaller R1 starts at $5,900 for an entry consumer and developer configuration. Both are made by Unitree Robotics, a Chinese manufacturer based in Hangzhou, and represent the most aggressively priced humanoid platforms commercially available in 2026.Read the full explainer →
What is Mentee Robotics and the MenteeBot humanoid?
Mentee Robotics is an Israeli humanoid robot maker founded in 2022 by Amnon Shashua, the AI researcher who also leads Mobileye and AI21. Mobileye acquired Mentee in January 2026 for approximately $900 million ($612M cash plus Mobileye Class A shares), making Mentee an independent operating unit inside Mobileye. The company's MenteeBot humanoid is positioned as an AI-first general-purpose platform leveraging Mobileye's autonomous-vehicle perception heritage.Read the full explainer →
Tesla Optimus vs Figure 03 vs 1X NEO: which humanoid should I actually buy?
If you want to buy a humanoid robot in 2026, the answer depends on which tier of availability matches your need. 1X NEO is the only consumer-available option ($20,000 outright or $499/month subscription with six-month minimum, late-2026 US delivery). Figure 03 is enterprise-deployed only (Catalyst Brands pilot; no consumer commerce). Tesla Optimus is consumer-promised but not shipping (Musk's $20,000-$30,000 target is a forward claim, no order channel). The three products operate at three structurally distinct tiers.Read the full explainer →
Which humanoid robot makers are American, Chinese, or from other countries?
The major American humanoid makers are Figure AI (Sunnyvale CA), Apptronik (Austin TX), Tesla (Palo Alto CA / Austin TX), Boston Dynamics (Waltham MA; Hyundai-owned), and Agility Robotics (Salem OR). The major Chinese makers are Unitree Robotics (Hangzhou), AgiBot (Shanghai), UBTech (Shenzhen), Fourier Intelligence (Shanghai), XPeng Robotics (Guangzhou), and several others. 1X Technologies operates a Norwegian-American structure (Moss Norway HQ plus Hayward California factory). Mentee Robotics is Israeli (acquired by Mobileye January 2026). Sanctuary AI is Canadian (Vancouver).Read the full explainer →
Why are frontier AI labs (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta) entering robotics in 2025-2026?
The major frontier AI research labs are committing institutionally to robotics in 2025-2026 as a distinct industry cluster. OpenAI formally relaunched its robotics division in May 2026 after a 4-to-5-year hiatus. Google DeepMind operates the Gemini Robotics program as part of its broader model-to-embodiment research. Meta has expanded AI robotics work alongside its Reality Labs portfolio. The cluster is not about any one lab making a robot; it is about foundation-model research lines extending toward physical-world embodiment.Read the full explainer →
How does teleoperation differ across humanoid robot manufacturers?
Every major humanoid manufacturer uses teleoperation in development and demonstration. The differential across the cohort is the disclosure layer, not the underlying practice. 1X is the most transparent (explicit teleop disclosure on the consumer commerce surface). Tesla operated framing-without-disclosure at We Robot 2024 (autonomy framing; subsequently confirmed teleoperated). Figure deploys with human-in-loop for exception handling at customer facilities. Apptronik has mixed disclosure across enterprise pilots. The framework treats the disclosure differential as the editorial finding.Read the full explainer →
What is Sanctuary AI and the Phoenix humanoid robot?
Sanctuary AI is a Canadian humanoid robotics company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, founded by Geordie Rose and Suzanne Gildert (both Kindred AI alumni). The company's Phoenix platform is a seventh-generation humanoid emphasizing a cognitive architecture that combines symbolic reasoning with neural learning, structurally distinct from the end-to-end foundation-model approach most US humanoid makers pursue. Sanctuary AI is privately held; not publicly traded.Read the full explainer →
What is UBTech Walker S2 and is UBTech a real humanoid company?
UBTech Robotics is a publicly-traded Chinese humanoid manufacturer headquartered in Shenzhen, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The Walker S2 is the company's industrial-focused humanoid platform deployed in factory pilots with BYD, Geely, Foxconn, and other manufacturing customers. UBTech is real, with verified commercial pilots; the company distinguishes itself from the US private humanoid cohort by being publicly listed with disclosed financial state.Read the full explainer →
Which humanoid robot manufacturers can I invest in?
Direct equity exposure to humanoid manufacturers in 2026 is mostly limited to a small set of publicly-traded companies: UBTech Robotics (HKEX-listed Chinese maker), Tesla (NASDAQ; Optimus is one product), and Hyundai Motor Group (KRX; Boston Dynamics parent). The major US humanoid pure-plays (Figure AI, 1X Technologies, Apptronik, Agility Robotics, Sanctuary AI) are privately held and accessible only via venture-stage or accredited-investor channels. Mentee Robotics was acquired by Mobileye in January 2026. DEPLOY is not an investment advisor; this guide documents verification posture, not investment advice.Read the full explainer →
Can humanoid robots cook?
No consumer-deployed humanoid robot can cook autonomously in 2026. Demonstrations and research exist across the cohort; consumer-grade cooking capability is not verified at deployment scale. Purpose-built robotic kitchens (such as Moley Robotics, a non-humanoid installed kitchen) exist at the research-and-experimental tier near $300,000. For a general-purpose humanoid robot that can prepare meals autonomously in a customer's kitchen, the answer is years from verified consumer-deployment.Read the full explainer →
Can humanoid robots do laundry?
Yes, with disclosure. 1X NEO is the verified-leader for consumer-deployment laundry capability in 2026: NEO performs laundry tasks (folding, sorting, light loading) in consumer homes with explicit Expert Mode teleoperation disclosure for complex tasks. Other cohort manufacturers (Tesla Optimus, Figure 03, Apptronik Apollo, Boston Dynamics Atlas, Unitree) demonstrate clothes-folding or related manipulation but do not consumer-deploy laundry capability. Laundry is the canonical example of how task capability varies dramatically across the humanoid cohort: 1X delivers verified consumer capability with teleop disclosure; others deliver demonstrations without consumer deployment.Read the full explainer →
What can humanoid robots actually do today?
Humanoid robot capability in 2026 sorts into four verification tiers per DEPLOY's framework. Verified consumer-deployed: 1X NEO performs laundry, organizing, and light manipulation in customer homes with explicit teleop disclosure. Verified enterprise-deployed: Figure 03, Apptronik Apollo, Agility Digit, and UBTech Walker S2 perform manufacturing and logistics tasks at Fortune-500 customer facilities. Research and demonstration: Boston Dynamics Atlas, Tesla Optimus, and Unitree platforms show capability footage but do not deploy. Claimed future: cooking, autonomous home assistance, childcare, and general-purpose household work remain claimed across the cohort but not consumer-deployed.Read the full explainer →
What is Agility Robotics and the Digit humanoid robot?
Agility Robotics is a US humanoid robotics company headquartered in Albany, Oregon, with humanoid R&D heritage tracing through the Cassie research platform that preceded Digit. The Digit humanoid is the company's commercial warehouse and logistics platform, deployed in pilots at GXO Logistics (the 100,000-tote scaled-throughput anchor), Amazon Spanx Tennessee, Schaeffler, and other industrial customers. Agility is privately held, with Amazon as a strategic investor and a manufacturing facility (RoboFab) in Salem, Oregon.Read the full explainer →
What's the difference between a humanoid robot and an industrial robot?
Humanoid robots are bipedal robots with arms, hands, and roughly human-like proportions designed to operate in human environments and perform general-purpose tasks (Tesla Optimus, 1X NEO, Figure 03, Apptronik Apollo, Boston Dynamics Atlas, Unitree G1). Industrial robots are fixed-base manipulator arms designed for specific factory-automation tasks at high precision and reliability (FANUC, Universal Robots, KUKA, ABB). The categories share the word 'robot' but operate at substantively different scales (industrial robotics is a mature commercial category with hundreds of thousands of installed units; humanoid robotics is an emerging category with consumer-deployment at single-manufacturer scale).Read the full explainer →
What is physical AI?
Physical AI refers to AI systems that operate in the physical world rather than purely in digital environments. The category spans autonomous vehicles, humanoid robots, autonomous mobile robots in warehouses, drones, and AI-augmented industrial automation. Physical AI differs from digital-only AI in that the system must perceive, decide, and act under physical-world constraints (sensor noise, latency, mechanical failure modes, regulatory frameworks). DEPLOY tracks physical AI across four subcategories with distinct verification frameworks per category.Read the full explainer →
What is a foundation model for robotics?
A foundation model for robotics extends the large-language-model paradigm to physical-action prediction. Trained on robot demonstrations rather than internet text alone, these models output action sequences (motor commands, manipulator trajectories) rather than text tokens. The category is dominated by vision-language-action (VLA) architectures that take camera images plus optional language instructions as input and produce action tokens as output. Companies building these models constitute the brain-provider tier of the robotics value chain, distinct from the humanoid OEM tier that builds the physical platforms the models run on.Read the full explainer →
What is Skild AI and the Skild Brain foundation model?
Skild AI is a US foundation-model-for-robotics company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded by Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta (both Carnegie Mellon University robotics-research alumni). The company's Skild Brain product is a vision-language-action (VLA) foundation model architected around a cross-platform general-purpose thesis: a single model trained to operate across multiple robot platforms rather than platform-specific brains. Skild has raised substantial 2024-2025 funding rounds; the company is privately held and represents a distinctive position in the brain-provider tier of the robotics value chain.Read the full explainer →
Which companies build foundation models for robotics, and how do they compare?
The brain-provider tier of robotics in 2026 includes several distinct strategic theses. Skild AI pursues cross-platform general-purpose brain deployment. Physical Intelligence (Pi-0; Pi-0.5) emphasizes transformer-based VLA research publications. Covariant specializes in warehouse-automation foundation models. Google DeepMind operates Gemini Robotics and RT-2 across AV and humanoid research. OpenAI Robotics relaunched in May 2026 after a 2021 hiatus. NVIDIA Project GR00T pursues cross-platform humanoid integration aligned with NVIDIA's broader stack. Meta operates research-publication-emphasizing work via FAIR and Reality Labs. The cohort is at research-and-demonstration verification depth; commercial-scale deployment lags behind humanoid OEM commercial deployment substantially.Read the full explainer →
What's the difference between robotics brain providers and robot makers?
Robotics value chain operates across three structural tiers. Brain-provider tier companies (Skild AI, Physical Intelligence, Covariant, Google DeepMind, OpenAI Robotics, NVIDIA Project GR00T) build foundation models for robotics without making hardware. OEM-platform tier companies (Figure AI, Apptronik, 1X Technologies, Tesla, Agility Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Unitree, UBTech) build robot hardware platforms with integrated brains. Deployment tier represents real-world operation at customer facilities (BMW Spartanburg, GXO Flowery Branch, Mercedes-Benz pilots). The three tiers operate complementarily; understanding which tier a company occupies is essential for evaluating its competitive position and verification posture.Read the full explainer →
What is 1X Redwood?
1X Redwood is the captive-brain / foundation model from 1X Technologies , the AI substrate that powers the 1X NEO consumer humanoid and 1X EVE industrial humanoid. CRITICAL ENTITY SCOPE per audit-first verification: Redwood is 1X's BRAIN entity (registered at /brains/1x-redwood), NOT a humanoid hardware product. Common framing confusion: trade-press coverage occasionally references 'Redwood' as if it were a separate 1X humanoid robot; the verified entity scope is the captive-brain foundation model that integrates into 1X's hardware platforms (NEO + EVE). Per DEPLOY's brain-providers cluster framework, Redwood anchors the captive-brain archetype within the brain-providers cluster, structurally distinct from third-party brain providers (NVIDIA GR00T + Skild AI + Physical Intelligence + Wayve + Covariant + Dyna). Per consumer-vs-industrial humanoid sub-cohort architecture: consumer humanoid archetype operates more likely captive-brain integration (Redwood as canonical worked example) vs industrial humanoid archetype's more likely third-party-brain integration claims (cap-flagged per primary-source verification).Read the full explainer →
How did DEPLOY catch the 1X Redwood brain-vs-hardware framing error?
A dispatch framed 1X Redwood as '1X's industrial sibling to NEO consumer' with 'industrial-pilot with verified pilot deployments' (a humanoid hardware product). Audit-first verification against the registry surface showed Redwood is registered at /brains/1x-redwood as a brain entity (foundation model + captive AI substrate), NOT a humanoid hardware product. The 1X Technologies actual humanoid product lineup at the registry surface: /models/1x-eve (industrial) + /models/1x-neo (consumer). No /models/1x-redwood exists. The correction was caught before the entity anchor was authored, surfaced to the operator, and corrected at the editorial framing layer. The brain-entity vs hardware-model entity-type discipline is now editorially canonical. This piece documents the catch as a framework-in-action worked example demonstrating audit-first discipline + dispatch-framing-vs-codebase-reality verification + cap-flag honesty operating at editorial-anchor depth.Read the full explainer →
How does DEPLOY track cross-cluster talent-flow as diaspora graph?
DEPLOY tracks cross-cluster talent-flow at primary-source-anchored PersonCompany-edge granularity per Arc A people graph substrate. The diaspora graph framework operates at three canonical pattern classes: post-wind-down diaspora (Cruise canonical worked example; founders + executives + technical leadership transition across multiple destinations after corporate wind-down); license-and-hire diaspora (Amazon × Covariant canonical worked example; co-founders + ~25% staff transition to acquirer while standalone entity continues under remaining leadership); adjacent-employer-prior diaspora (Meta AI / FAIR + Google X / Everyday Robots as recurring prior employers in brain-providers and humanoid cohort hires). Each pattern class operates at distinct PersonCompany-edge structure: current_role=false with end_date populated + where-they-went edge (post-wind-down + license-and-hire); current_role=true with prior-employer edge at honest-absence end_date if no specific tenure-end disclosed (adjacent-employer-prior). The framework reads talent-flow at four substrate-axis granularity: source company + destination company + role transition + tenure date precision; cap-flag-as-trust-signal operates recursively on diaspora framing same as on any other relationship-record claim depth. Cross-property bidirectional discipline operational: PersonCompany edges cross-reference acquisition records (Cruise wind-down ↔ GM full re-absorption Acquisition record; Covariant license_and_hire ↔ Amazon × Covariant Acquisition record) + partnership records + entity records simultaneously.Read the full explainer →
How does DEPLOY track manufacturer counterparty risk at financial-state-axis granularity?
DEPLOY tracks Phase 3 Dim 2 manufacturer counterparty risk substrate at primary-source-anchored verification depth per Agent A's mfs=7 manufacturer_financial_states baseline backfill: Intuitive Surgical FY2024 $8.35B (sec_10k; mature; counterparty=low) + Stryker nine-month 2024 $16.16B (sec_10q; mature; counterparty=low; SEC-verified-figure-with-narrower-precision-cap-flag CANONICAL worked example) + Zimmer Biomet FY2024 $7.68B (sec_8k; mature; counterparty=low) + Boston Dynamics private_reported NULL revenue (mature; counterparty=low via Hyundai ~80% parent-backing CANONICAL worked example for counterparty-risk-by-parent-backing classification) + Apptronik private_reported NULL (growth; counterparty=moderate; recent $350M Series A Feb 2025) + Figure AI private_reported NULL (growth; counterparty=moderate; ~$1B Series C 2025 at ~$39B reported valuation) + 1X Technologies private_reported NULL (growth; counterparty=moderate; 2024 Series B ~$100M EQT-led + subsequent 2025 round). Cap-flag-as-trust-signal recursive at three substantive layers: SEC-verified-figure-with-narrower-precision-cap-flag pattern (Stryker Q3 nine-month $16,159M used instead of unverified FY extrapolation; verified-vs-claimed at sub-fiscal-period granularity) + honest-absence on private-financials USD fields (Apptronik + Figure + 1X all NULL revenue at honest-absence cap-flag pending primary-source disclosure) + cash_runway_basis NULL when cash_runway_months NULL across the board (validator-aware discipline; cash_runway_months not publicly-disclosed for any of these makers; cash_runway_basis stays NULL preserving validator integrity). Counterparty-risk-by-parent-backing classification discipline as canonical: Boston Dynamics counterparty=low via Hyundai ~80% subsidiary parent-backing vs Apptronik/Figure/1X counterparty=moderate as growth-stage privates without parent-backing.Read the full explainer →

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Safety record

No incidents on record for 1X Technologies.

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Recent coverage

1X Technologies in third-party press

Comparing 3 Robot launches: Figure 03, 1x Neo, Xpeng Iron (and the Unitree H2)

Aug 14, 2026

1X Says Its NEO Robotic Hand Solves the 'Hands Problem' in Robotics

Jul 19, 2026

The 1X Neo Robot Has Freaky Fast Fingers

Jul 9, 2026

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