The Future of Humanoid Robots With 1X's Bernt Bornich - Ep. 259

Hello, and welcome to the NVIDIA AI podcast. I'm your host, Noah Kravitz. As we move deeper into the age of physical AI, advanced humanoid robots are reshaping industries and enhancing daily life. Advancements in AI models and simulation tools are enabling robots to perform complex tasks with greater dexterity and efficiency, and foundation models are playing a key role in generalizing robot tasks. Here with us to pull the curtain back a little more on the rapidly developing world of humanoid robotics is Bernd Bornick. Bernd is founder and CEO of One X Technologies, a Silicon Valley company that's dedicated to building fully autonomous humanoid robots. Bernd, welcome, and thank you so much for joining the AI podcast. Oh, thank you, Noah. So can we start with a little bit about your journey, how you got into the field? Sure. So to me, this is kind of been a lifelong journey. Right. So as as a kid, I was the kind of kid who picked everything apart to figure out what's inside. I think nothing with motors in it of our kitchen appliances survived in the early days. And, I also just I was very lucky. I grew up with a dad that loved building things. We built soapbox cars in the garage. We went all in, like, welded aluminum frames and chassis. Nice. Nice. And then I discovered computers. Right? And we're back in, like, Commodore '64 and then, like, early, I think it was until February Okay. Like, the first one. But, like, the first kinda, like, computer I had my had my only for me, right, in my room was, like, a April. Okay. And I really got into programming. Right. Mainly due to games and just being part of the mod community, making mods for games Mhmm. Is a big thing. One of my childhood heroes is John Carmack. Right. And, I learned writing code by reading his, Quake code. Mhmm. And then, you know, at some point it clicks and you're just like, wait a minute. I can type code and this thing moves. Right. I like connecting these two realities. Right? Yeah. Yeah. The digital and the physical is, like, it's just magical. It's magic. Yeah. And, yeah, one thing led to another. And very early, I think I was, like, 11, I decided I wanna make humanoid robots. And then I followed the field Okay. Followed the field ever since. Right. Right. So I'm like, I'm the luckiest scholar. Right? I get to do my childhood dream. Every day in the morning, I get up and, like, even now I get up and there's a robot walking around in my house. Right. And it's absolutely magical. That's amazing. So tell us a little bit about one x then. What inspire I mean, you've been talking about your journey inspired by everything you've been doing since you were a kid. But how did the company get started? And maybe you can talk a …