Roberto Nickson(@rpnickson):The cool thing about talking with Bernt is that he isn’t just a robotics CEO, he’s a deep AI thinker who’s been obsessed with this for decades. It's obvious to me that this is his life's purpose. While most robotic labs are chasing narrow, pre-programmed behaviors, 1X built a dynamics-first world model trained on video + robot sensors. It lets NEO generalize to completely new tasks out of the box, and get smarter through every failure - the same way humans do. Bernt says NEO doesn’t need to have seen every chore. It needs a World Model with enough human experience to imagine what should happen, a body dexterous enough to attempt it, and a real-world feedback loop sharp enough to correct it. That’s how we go from task automation to general-purpose labor.

2026.05.14 19:31

The cool thing about talking with Bernt is that he isn’t just a robotics CEO, he’s a deep AI thinker who’s been obsessed with this for decades. It's obvious to me that this is his life's purpose. While most robotic labs are chasing narrow, pre-programmed behaviors, 1X built a dynamics-first world model trained on video + robot sensors. It lets NEO generalize to completely new tasks out of the box, and get smarter through every failure - the same way humans do. Bernt says NEO doesn’t need to have seen every chore. It needs a World Model with enough human experience to imagine what should happen, a body dexterous enough to attempt it, and a real-world feedback loop sharp enough to correct it. That’s how we go from task automation to general-purpose labor.

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Roberto Nickson@rpnickson

2026.05.12 18:42

I toured the only factory in America building humanoid robots from scratch. Last month, I got an exclusive first look at the facility making NEO— the humanoid robot launching into consumer homes later this year. It is the most vertically integrated humanoid robot factory in America. Every critical component is done in-house. CEO Bernt Børnich walked us through the full story: from building soapbox cars with his dad at age 11 to leading the only end-to-end humanoid robot factory in the United States. VP of Operations Vikram Kothari then took us inside the entire build process, where every motor, limb, circuit, and sensor comes together under one roof on a rapid four-week cycle from CAD to finished robot. [TIMESTAMPS] (00:00) Welcome to the NEO Factory (01:00) 1X: from childhood dream to reality (02:21) The World Model difference: true general intelligence (03:48) Making everything in America- why is it so important? (05:01) Walking the factory floor (06:04) Safety and privacy (07:57) A more abundant future: the real impact of NEO (09:26) Bernt's story and the 1X North Star Huge thank you to @Berntbornich, Vikram, and the entire @1X_tech team for opening the doors and showing us everything!

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