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1X and the $20,000 Laundry Problem
1X is bringing humanoid robots into the home, where a crumpled shirt can be harder than a factory shift. Its bet is that a useful robot learns best in the place where people actually need it.
Anvil Robotics
Anvil Robotics is a Palo Alto-based hardware and software company building a composable platform for Physical AI. It sells ready-to-run robot devkits - most notably the open-source OpenARM bimanual manipulator and the OpenYAM arm - bundled with teleoperation, data-collection, and training tooling so teams can train end-to-end robot policies on day one instead of spending six months sourcing and wiring parts. Backed by a $6.5M seed round, Anvil manufactures in-house in Taiwan and has shipped hundreds of robots to customers including Nvidia, Google, and university labs.