Bernt Bornich – Founder and CEO of 1X Technologies on the Future of Humanoid Robots
The Casey Adams Show
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4.8 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Today on The Casey Adams Show, I sat down with Bernt Bornich, the Founder and CEO of 1X Technologies, a Norwegian-American robotics and AI company pioneering the development of general-purpose humanoid robots for home environments.
Bernt shares the incredible journey behind building 1X—from its origins as Halodi Robotics in Norway to becoming a global leader in robotics innovation. We discuss how his team is bridging the gap between artificial intelligence and physical robotics, the evolution from industrial and healthcare robots to humanoid assistants, and what it truly takes to build machines designed to work safely alongside humans.
We also dive into 1X’s groundbreaking work supported by investors like OpenAI’s Startup Fund, EQT Ventures, and Samsung NEXT, and how their vision is shaping a future where humanoid robots enhance everyday life.
Learn more about 1X Technologies and follow Bernt Bornich on X for updates on the future of robotics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Casey Adams show. Today I'm joined by Burns Burnett, the founder and CEO of |
| 0:06.6 | 1X. Thank you so much for from the show today. Oh, appreciate it. So we are here in your beautiful |
| 0:12.7 | HQ and Palo Alto. Thank you so much for having me today. And to jump right in, man, you know, |
| 0:18.0 | you guys have truly revolutionized modern humanoid robots in the home. |
| 0:23.7 | And I saw you talk about in a previous interview how you knew you wanted to build humanoid robots since you were a kid. |
| 0:32.0 | How did you know that when you were young? |
| 0:33.9 | What led to you wanting to pursue that at such an early age and even as an idea |
| 0:38.0 | the idea is really old right |
| 0:41.0 | I mean people I don't know |
| 0:42.9 | maybe the first one is the Golan |
| 0:44.3 | but I was really lucky |
| 0:47.6 | I grew up |
| 0:48.7 | I grew up with like a dad |
| 0:51.6 | who loved to build things |
| 0:53.0 | like we would build a soapbox cars for the local races. |
| 0:57.0 | We'd go, like, all in. |
| 0:58.6 | We would build welded aluminium frames and, like, proper, like, chassis racers and stuff |
| 1:03.3 | for one as a small kid. |
| 1:05.8 | So I really just loved building things. |
| 1:08.4 | And then I'm most of the generation where I I just like, I discovered the computers, right? |
| 1:11.5 | That really early ones. |
| 1:13.0 | And I got really into programming. |
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