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In a wide-ranging interview, 1X CEO Bernt Børnich discusses the decade of foundational work behind the NEO humanoid, the surprising social dynamics of robot interaction, and the unglamorous-but-critical challenges—like Wi-Fi—of deploying robots in the real world.

In a late-night visit to 1X's Palo Alto headquarters, online streamer IShowSpeed put the NEO Gamma humanoid robots through their paces. The chaotic, unscripted live stream provided a rare, public demonstration of the company's impressive teleoperation technology.

According to a report from The Information, Norwegian robotics company 1X Technologies is seeking to raise as much as $1 billion in a new funding round that would value the company at a minimum of $10 billion. The move signals accelerating investor confidence in the humanoid robotics sector.

Following a week of reveals about its new Redwood AI, robotics firm 1X has detailed its latest tool: an 'action-controllable' world model. The system acts as a high-fidelity simulator, allowing the company to predict the outcomes of its NEO robot's actions and rapidly evaluate AI performance without costly, time-consuming physical trials.

A day after unveiling its Redwood AI brain, robotics firm 1X has detailed the reinforcement learning system that powers the NEO humanoid’s movement. The unified controller enables a range of human-like motions, from walking and running to climbing stairs using only stereo vision.