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January 11, 2024

OpenAI-backed 1X just raised $100m to bring its two-legged robot butler to your home

The funding will help the Norwegian startup scale the production of its new android


Mimi Billing

7 min read

1X's android EVE and the CEO Bernt Øivind Børnich

The idea of two-legged robots to tidy our homes has been the stuff of science fiction for decades. That is now about to change.

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Picture of 1X new android, NEO
1X's next-generation android NEO weighs 30kg
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Picture of 1X's android EVE working in logistics
1X's android EVE working "happily" in logistics
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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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