1X acquired a kind humanoid, Norwegian robot startup told TechCrunch on Monday. This transaction shows a small but important integration for the humanoid Robot Industry at the brink of the major moment of 2025.
TechCrunch talked to Kind Humanoid in October. The three startups at the time have announced that they have participated in the famous designer Evehal to support the creation of the first commercial robot.
The story had all the charms expected from the grumpy startup formed by the Silicon Valley Garage. Former Google Robotics Researcher CHRISTOPH KOHSTALL has provided a simple tour of East Bay Headquarters, which is a mixed OTIC of the company through zoom. He has revealed that the type is, especially the shots, and avoiding the much less conventional $ 80 coat racks, avoiding the gonlige system mounted on the ceiling.
In addition to attracting the JawBone Fitness Tracker, a laptop per child, a designer of a product such as August Locks, Béhar, but also the kind robot engineering company was obviously won. Meanwhile, 1X, on the other hand, has created both AI -led production approaches for the space, including $ 100 million, which was procured last January, and a funding for the focusing funds.
Image credit: 1X
Companies, including Tiger Global and Openai, are counted as investors. The latter is particularly worth noting because the interest around the platform like Chatgpt does not show signs of decline. On the other hand, many of the Kind works focus on the role of a large -scale language model to create a kind of general intelligence to create a general -purpose form factor like Humanoids. Is hitting.
1x memo:
Kind Humanoid's unique expertise and culture complement the 1X mission of creating a wealth of labor through safe and intelligent humanoids. The relationship between the two new companies is based on the basic belief that humanoids need to be developed with humans.
Kind operation also helps to increase the bay area operation by 1x. The details of the transaction are not disclosed.
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