Against the backdrop of rapid development of AI technology, humanoid robots have become a hot and popular race track. Since August 2024, three financing events in the field of humanoid robots have attracted high attention from the industry, with financing amounts reaching hundreds of millions of yuan!
Recently, it was reported that Beijing Accelerated Evolution Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Accelerated Evolution") has completed a Pre-A series round of financing of one billion yuan. This round of funds will mainly be used for the construction of general ontologies and the improvement of software development capabilities.
Intelligent Manufacturing Network has learned that Accelerated Evolution Company focuses on developing more mobile humanoid robot bodies and easy to develop operation and control development platforms, always committed to promoting technological innovation and commercialization in the field of humanoid robots. At the recently concluded 2024 World Robot Conference (WRC), Accelerated Evolution teamed up with Face Wall Intelligence to achieve the industry's first efficient end-to-end model application on humanoid robots.
On September 3rd, Shanghai Zhiyuan New Creation Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Zhiyuan Robot") completed an A+++++round of financing, with investors including Muhua Venture Capital and Softtek LCVPF Holdco Limited, Muhua Capital and Zhongke Chuangxing, with the old shareholder Zhongke Chuangxing also investing. The completion of this round of financing also marks the official end of the A-round financing stage for Zhiyuan Robotics.
Zhiyuan Robot is an innovative enterprise dedicated to integrating AI+robots for innovation, creating world-class leading embodied intelligent robot products and application ecosystems. Moreover, the founder of Zhiyuan Robot is believed to be familiar to everyone. It is Zhihui Jun, who joined Huawei as a "genius youth" and has rich experience and technical strength in the field of artificial intelligence.
On August 18th, Zhiyuan Robotics held its 2024 new product launch event. At the event, Zhiyuan Robotics released five commercial humanoid robots, including Expedition A2, Expedition A2-W, Expedition A2 Max, Lingxi X1, and Lingxi X1-W. It is reported that these five new humanoid robots adopt a family design language, combining wheel and foot forms, covering application scenarios such as interactive services, flexible intelligent manufacturing, special operations, scientific research and education, and data collection. According to Zhiyuan Robotics, the estimated shipment volume of Zhiyuan Robots in 2024 will reach 300 units, including about 200 bipedal units and about 100 wheeled units.
On August 12th, Qianxun Intelligence (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Qianxun Intelligence") announced the completion of nearly 200 million yuan in seed and angel round financing. It is reported that the angel round of financing is led by Honghui Fund, followed by Dachen Venture Capital and Qiancheng Capital. At the same time, Shunwei Capital and Oasis Capital, as seed round old shareholders, continue to increase their investment.
According to the data, Qianxun Intelligence is a manufacturer of embodied intelligent robots. In order to achieve the interactivity and generalization of robots, Qianxun Intelligence has built a high generalization and high universality robot brain, and has become the only embodied intelligent company in China with AI+robot productivity level full stack technology capabilities.
As the next trillion level race track, humanoid robots have already gained many investment institutions' entry tickets to the track. Public data shows that in the first half of 2024, there have been 13 investment and financing events for humanoid robots in China, with a total financing amount exceeding 2.5 billion yuan.