Robotics company 1X found some big potential buyers for its humanoid robots designed for consumers \u2014 the portfolio companies of one of its investors.<\/p>\n
The company announced a strategic partnership to make thousands of its humanoid robots<\/a> available for EQT\u2019s portfolio companies on Thursday. EQT is a large Swedish multi-asset investor, and its venture fund EQT Ventures, is one of 1X\u2019s backers.<\/p>\n This deal involves shipping up to 10,000 1X Neo humanoid robots between 2026 and 2030 to EQT\u2019s more than 300 portfolio companies with a concentration on manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, and other industrial use cases.<\/p>\n 1X will sign individual deals with each of EQT\u2019s interested portfolio companies, 1X confirmed to TechCrunch. <\/p>\n This partnership is particularly interesting because 1X\u2019s Neo has been marketed as a humanoid for personal use and tagged as the \u201cfirst consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform life at home.\u201d Unlike some of 1X\u2019s peers, like Figure<\/a>, it has not been marketed as a bot for commercial purposes.<\/p>\n 1X does have a robot designed for industrial purposes, Eve Industrial, but this deal specifically involves the Neo humanoid.<\/p>\n When the company opened up preorders<\/a> for the $20,000 robot in October, the announcement was focused on how the robot would operate in someone\u2019s home from descriptions of the different chores that the robot is able to perform and how it interacts with people.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco This deal is quite a different use case.<\/p>\n That\u2019s likely because humanoids for the home will remain a hard sell for quite some time while industrial use cases are an easier sell. The $20,000 price tag automatically limits the potential pool of consumer customers too.<\/p>\n The Neo specifically also comes with a privacy element that would be hard to swallow for many people \u2014 human operators from 1X are able to look through the robots eyes<\/a> into someone\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
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