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1X Co-Founder and "Principal Inventor" Splits to Launch Rival Robotics Firm
Dr. Phuong Nguyen, the co-founder and "principal inventor" of 1X, has launched Physical Robotics AS. The new venture represents a strategic split, not over AI, but *how* to build it. Instead of 1X's consumer-focused "embodied learning," Nguyen is betting on "Physical Intelligence" (PI) gathered from force-sensitive industrial manipulators.