1X Technologies

1X Technologies is the humanoid company that decided the first real humanoid product should live in your house, not in a warehouse. It started in Norway in 2014 as Halodi Robotics, moved most of the company to California, took money from OpenAI and EQT, and in October 2025 put a home robot called NEO on sale with a price, a deposit and a delivery year. One year later it has a factory in Hayward, a long waitlist, and no delivery to a paying customer that anyone outside the company has confirmed. This report walks through how 1X got here and what we at Robotico are watching, as of 29 October 2026.[1]

Bernt Øivind Børnich founded the company in 2014 as Halodi Robotics, based in Moss, Norway. The early work was safe actuators and whole body control. In plain terms: motors that will not hurt the person standing next to them, and software that drives a whole robot with motors like that. It is not the exciting part of robotics, but it carries straight through to today's product. One data provider says the company was founded in 2015; two others say 2014, which we use.[2][3][4]

The first humanoid came in 2018. EVE rolled on wheels instead of walking and was aimed at logistics, security and healthcare settings. It was a real product with real buyers. In 2021 Halodi raised a Series A led by Valinor, with Jacob Hatteland Holding, ADT Commercial, Altopack and StrongPoint joining. Norwegian press put the round at NOK 85 million or NOK 86 million, depending on the outlet. Two of the investors, Altopack and StrongPoint, were customers. ADT, the American security company, bought in as well.[2][5][6][7][8]

ADT then became the first big order. In March 2022 Halodi signed to deliver 140 EVE humanoids to ADT Commercial for commercial security in the US. For a humanoid company in 2022, that was a serious contract. How many of the 140 were actually delivered has never been published.[3]