1x acquired a type of Gentile humanoid, said the robotic Norwegian startup to Techcrunch on Monday. The agreement marks a small but a key of consolidation for a humanoid robotics industry on the verge of an important moment in 2025.
Techcrunch spoke with Gentile Umanoid in October, when the then startup of three people announced that he had enrolled the famous designer Yves Béhar to help create his first commercial robot.
The story had all the charm that one anticipated by a courageous startup formed in a Silicon Valley garage. Christoph Kohstall, CEO and former robotics researcher by Google Christoph Kohstall, made us a quick tour of the chaotic headquarters of the East Bay company via zoom on his phone. Among other things, he revealed that the type had avoided a tailpipe system mounted on the ceiling visible in the shot for a $ 80 breaking much less conventional from $ 80.
In addition to attracting Béhar – the designer of products such as the Fitness Jawbone tracker, a child’s laptop and the August locks – type has clearly won the other robotic companies. In the meantime, 1x has made news both for its generative approach based on the space for space and for its high -profile financing rounds, including $ 100 million collected last January.
The companies, including Tiger Global and Openai, considered themselves investors. The latter is particularly remarkable as an interest in platforms such as chatgpt do not show any sign of slowing down. In the meantime, the work of most of the genre has focused on the role that large models will probably play while multiple robotics companies push to create a sort of general intelligence to mate with form of form for general use such as humanoids.
1x Note:
Kind Humanoid’s unique competence and culture complete the 1x mission of creating an abundance of work through safe and intelligent humanoids. The relationship between the two new united companies built on the fundamental belief that humanoids must be developed together with humans: living and learning among us
Kind’s operations will also help 1x to expand the Bay Area operations. The details of the agreement were not disclosed.
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