Bernt Børnich
Bernt Børnich is the founder and CEO of 1X Technologies AS, a Norwegian AI and robotics company specializing in humanoid robots that he established in 2014 under the original name Halodi Robotics. He leads the development of NEO, a bipedal humanoid robot designed for home assistance, with AI development based in the San Francisco Bay Area and manufacturing in Norway. He is also the inventor of Revo1 motors, described as a high torque-to-weight direct drive servomotor.
“Neo actually has tendons that gets pulled, very loosely inspired by human muscle. And this makes Neo into a robot that is quiet, soft, compliant, lightweight, safe, and really able to live among us and learn among us.”
“We are standing at the gates of a future where the work needed to build the products we use, the services we rely on, and even the chores in our homes will be as effortlessly accessible as energy is today.”
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