A mission of abundance.
Building safe, general-purpose humanoid companions to elevate humanity.
“If robots are to live among us and be truly useful, they need to learn among us. This demands that humanoids are safe, gentle, and quiet by nature.”
From tendon drives to home companions.
How a fundamental breakthrough in electric actuation evolved into America’s first high-volume humanoid robot factory.
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Origins
Halodi Robotics Beginnings
Founded by CEO Bernt Øyvind Børnich to solve a singular ambition: general-purpose robots capable of coexisting harmlessly alongside humans.
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Hardware Breakthrough
Revo1 Direct Tendon Servo
Engineered Revo1, the world’s highest torque-to-weight servo motor. Inspired by biological human tendons, it delivers 95% compliant backdrivability.
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Industrial Proof
EVE Deployed in Enterprise
Deployed wheeled humanoid androids at enterprise customer facilities globally, logging over 200,000 commercial hours handling security and logistical tasks.
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Domestic Horizon
A Bet on the Home
Recognizing that true physical intelligence requires understanding complex, unstructured living spaces, 1X pivoted its bipedal focus directly to the consumer home.
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NEO Beta
Introducing NEO Beta
Revealed NEO Beta to the world—a soft-bodied bipedal humanoid with human proportions, low inertia, whisper-quiet motors, and no pinch points.
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Hayward Scale
America's First Humanoid Factory
Inaugurated the Hayward NEO Factory with a 10,000 units/year capacity, pairing advanced automation with precision American manufacturing.
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Early Access
NEO Deliveries Begin (2026)
Initiating customer deliveries for early access purchase and monthly subscriptions, expanding the frontier of domestic robotics globally.
Rooted in Silicon Valley, engineered worldwide.
With engineering headquarters in Sunnyvale, high-volume production in Hayward, and advanced mechatronics R&D in Moss, Norway.
Sunnyvale, California
1233 Reamwood Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Hayward, California
Hayward NEO Production Facility, Hayward, CA
Moss, Norway
Henrich Gerners Gate 8, 1530 Moss, Norway
Leadership driven by engineering first principles.
Bernt Øyvind Børnich
Founder & Chief Executive OfficerPioneered tendon-driven compliant robotics and bio-inspired electric actuators. Founded Halodi Robotics (now 1X) to build safe humanoid androids for society.
AI Leadership Team
World Model & Robot LearningPioneers in generative video simulation, reinforcement learning, and vision-language-action foundation models for embodied robotic intelligence.
Hardware Engineering Team
Mechatronics & ActuationCreators of the Revo1 ultra-high torque density servo, 3D lattice polymer body cushions, and 22-DOF dexterous human-scale hands.