# 1X Technologies: company

Canonical ID: `8f775617-c4a7-4fb5-b4bb-9d66f4cfff3b`

## Key facts

- **CEO:** Bernt Øivind Børnich
- **Former name:** Halodi Robotics
- **Factory:** Hayward, California (58,000 sq ft, 200+ employees)
- **NEO price:** $20,000 + $499/month subscription
- **Mass production target:** 100,000 units

- **Slug:** 1x
- **Founded:** 2014
- **HQ:** Palo Alto, CA, USA
- **Funding total (USD):** 123500000

## Models

- [NEO](/models/neo.md) (humanoid) (id: `98c4f5a4-593f-484e-84d9-6d138351acfb`)

## Current leadership (2)

- [Bernt Øivind Børnich](/people/bernt-ivind-b-rnich.md) Founder & CEO (_reported, not verified_)
- [Amy Lentz](/people/amy-lentz.md) SVP of People (_reported, not verified_)

## Founders (1)

- [Bernt Øivind Børnich](/people/bernt-ivind-b-rnich.md) (cofounder)

## Partnerships (1)

- [1X x NVIDIA Research](/partnerships/1x-x-nvidia-research.md) with NVIDIA _development_

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Sources (1)

1. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/06/are-humanoid-robots-ready-to-be-deployed

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