1X Technologies (headquartered in San Carlos, CA, founded in Norway in 2014) builds bipedal humanoid robots for the home. Its flagship product, NEO, is a 66-lb humanoid that does household chores — laundry, tidying, fetching — at $20,000 to buy or $499/month to subscribe. NEO runs "Redwood," a proprietary 160M-parameter vision-language model that executes tasks on an embedded GPU without a cloud connection. The hardware differentiator is 1X's patented Tendon Drive actuation — high-torque-density motors with compliant motion for safe use around people — and a head-to-toe soft polymer body. The company also has an older wheeled robot (EVE) for industrial/logistics use. It operates an in-house 58,000 sq ft factory in Hayward, CA, targets 10,000 units/year now, and is targeting 100,000 units/year by end of 2027. Buyers range from consumers to enterprise customers — notably a deal to deploy up to 10,000 NEOs across private equity firm EQT's global portfolio of 300+ companies by 2030.