ACE Robotics (大晓机器人)

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About ACE Robotics (大晓机器人)

ACE Robotics develops perception, reasoning and control systems intended to serve as a shared intelligence layer across different robot bodies. Kairos combines visual scene interpretation, spatial reasoning and action generation, while the A1 robot-brain module packages model inference and robot-control capabilities for deployment on physical platforms. The company’s work spans humanoids, dual-arm manipulators and other embodied systems.

ACE-Ego provides a training framework built around paired first-person human demonstrations and robot execution data. The dataset and model pipeline support manipulation, navigation and whole-body task learning across several hardware configurations. ACE Robotics emerged from a team with links to SenseTime and is operating as an early-stage embodied-AI company focused on model development, robot integration and developer access.

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23 AUG 2026

Robotics capital moves — 17–23 August 2026

15 JUN 2026

Robotics capital moves — 15–21 June 2026

Deployments

  • Operating use

    2026-09-21 - ACE Robotics began live trial operation at one named PetroChina Shanghai convenience-store site. - Named Shanghai retail deployment - Kunlun Haoke convenience store at Zhenxing service station

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  • Commercial activity

    2026-07-19 - ACE Robotics reported customer deployments for its Xiaoman retail-fulfilment and Xiaotu outdoor-service solutions; no site or unit count was disclosed.

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Funding

Investors

  • Fortune Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-06-15
  • Fosun RZ Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-06-15
  • Geely Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-06-15
  • Huakong Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-06-15
  • Lingang New Area Fund - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-06-15
  • SenseTime Guoxiang Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-06-15
  • Shengyu Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-06-15
  • Shenzhen Capital Group - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-06-15
  • Yuzi Zhangquan - Participant - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-06-15
  • Ant Group - Lead - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-02-10
  • GVC - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
  • Hony Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
  • Lenovo Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
  • Maxxiri - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-15
  • MetaX - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-15
  • Qiming Venture Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
  • Sense Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Lotus Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
  • Shanghai Sci-Tech Innovation Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-15
  • Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-15

Team

  • Wang Xiaogang - Chairman - Wang connects ACE Robotics' embodied-intelligence strategy to its Kairos world-model roadmap and funding-backed commercial rollout.
  • Tao Dacheng - Chief Scientist

Research

  • ACE Robotics releases ACE-Brain-0.6 spatial-grounding model

    2026-10-19 - Research Publication - Supervised fine-tuning uses about one million spatial-grounding examples covering roughly 940,000 images and 2.7 million question-answer pairs. The company reports a 74.53 average across seven public benchmarks, compared with 73.68 for GPT-6 Astra, and higher scores on six of eight evaluations. Its company-built RobotGrounding evaluation scored 94.13 versus 91.10; these visual-grounding results do not measure general physical-task success.

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  • Kairos World Model

    2026-06-15 - Research Publication - Open repository and Hugging Face organization provide Kairos world-model resources for embodied agents. Positions the model around multimodal understanding, generation, action prediction, and long-horizon robot reasoning. June 15 coverage highlights benchmark performance across RoboTwin, LIBERO-Plus, WorldModelBench Robot, and DreamGen.

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  • ACE Robotics publishes ACE-Brain-0 foundation model research

    2026-03-03 - Research Publication - ACE Robotics published ACE-Brain-0, a spatial-intelligence foundation model for robotics, autonomous driving and UAV embodiments. The model used spatial reasoning as a shared scaffold across different physical systems. The research extended ACE Robotics' robot-brain work into multimodal foundation-model development for embodied systems.

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Timeline

Events

  • 2026-10-19 - Research Publication - ACE Robotics releases ACE-Brain-0.6 spatial-grounding model

    Supervised fine-tuning uses about one million spatial-grounding examples covering roughly 940,000 images and 2.7 million question-answer pairs. The company reports a 74.53 average across seven public benchmarks, compared with 73.68 for GPT-6 Astra, and higher scores on six of eight evaluations. Its company-built RobotGrounding evaluation scored 94.13 versus 91.10; these visual-grounding results do not measure general physical-task success.

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  • 2026-09-21 - Deployment - ACE Robotics begins live retail-fulfilment trial at PetroChina Shanghai store

    Real Meituan orders flow through PetroChina’s digital platform to the robot for product identification, picking, transport and packing. The wheeled lifting robot operates in 75 cm aisles and reaches shelves up to 2 m high. The live workflow spans storage, replenishment, shelving, order picking and packing; the disclosure does not state a fleet count.

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  • 2026-07-19 - Product Launch - ACE Robotics unveils Kairos 3.1 and Ambient Capture Engine 2.0

    Kairos 3.1 unifies generative, physical and cognitive intelligence for task planning, action selection, execution and self-correction. Ambient Capture Engine 2.0 combines the ACE Ego Kit, Sense Glove, Data Engine and Ego Matrix for collecting and reusing high-density interaction data. ACE also introduced Xiaoman retail fulfillment, Xiaoxin hotel laundry and Xiaotu outdoor-service solutions, with customer deployments already reported for Xiaoman and Xiaotu.

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  • 2026-06-17 - Capability - ACE Robotics and CUHK MMLab open-source ACE-Ego embodied VLA model

    ACE-Ego reached 72.8% average success on RoboCasa GR1 TableTop for humanoid robots. It reached 90.62% on RoboTwin 2.0 domain-randomization tests for dual-arm manipulation. Target tasks include retail sorting, order fulfillment, packing plastic bags and boxing shoes.

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  • 2026-06-15 - Funding - Daxiao Robotics completes Angel+ round for embodied-AI world-model work

    Daxiao Robotics completed an Angel+ financing round backed by Geely Capital, Fortune Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group, Shanghai Sci-Tech Fund and other investors. Funding coverage said the company had raised several hundred million dollars across H1 2026, including its earlier Angel round. The new capital is aimed at Kairos world-model development and soft-hard integrated solutions for retail, security patrol, cultural tourism and hotels.

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  • 2026-06-15 - Funding - ACE Robotics completes Angel+ round for Kairos world model and embodied brain stack

    The round includes investors such as Dachen, Shenzhen Capital, Shanghai S&T funds, Fosun RZ and other industrial backers. The proceeds support world models and integrated commercial solutions for scenarios including inspection, hotels, retail and logistics.

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  • 2026-06-15 - Research Publication - Kairos World Model

    Open repository and Hugging Face organization provide Kairos world-model resources for embodied agents. Positions the model around multimodal understanding, generation, action prediction, and long-horizon robot reasoning. June 15 coverage highlights benchmark performance across RoboTwin, LIBERO-Plus, WorldModelBench Robot, and DreamGen.

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  • 2026-03-03 - Research Publication - ACE Robotics publishes ACE-Brain-0 foundation model research

    ACE Robotics published ACE-Brain-0, a spatial-intelligence foundation model for robotics, autonomous driving and UAV embodiments. The model used spatial reasoning as a shared scaffold across different physical systems. The research extended ACE Robotics' robot-brain work into multimodal foundation-model development for embodied systems.

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  • 2026-02-10 - Funding - ACE Robotics closes angel round led by Ant Group

    ACE Robotics closed an angel round led by Ant Group, with participation from SenseTime and other investors. Coverage identified the company as an embodied-AI robotics startup also known as Daxiao Robotics. The funding preceded the company’s later H1 2026 Angel+ financing activity.

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  • 2025-12-18 - Product Launch - ACE Robotics releases Kairos 3.0 world model and KaiWu developer platform

    ACE Robotics released Kairos 3.0, an open-source world model for embodied intelligence. The company also introduced the KaiWu developer platform and A1 embodied super-brain module. The launch positioned ACE Robotics around the robot-brain layer for data collection, model training and real-world robotic applications.

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Relations

Relationships

  • PetroChina Shanghai Sales

    Live Retail Trial Site And Operating Partner - ACE Robotics is trialling its retail-fulfilment robot system at a PetroChina Shanghai Sales convenience-store site.

Context

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Context tags

  • Robot foundation model developer - Peer Group - ACE Robotics released ACE-Ego and develops Kairos/A1 embodied intelligence models.
  • Embodied AI model layer - Stack Layer - ACE-Ego is an embodied-operation VLA model using human and robot data.
  • Embodied AI models - Stack Layer - ACE Robotics develops Kairos world models and A1 embodied-brain modules.
  • Robotics foundation-model ecosystem - Stack Layer - ACE Robotics develops model-layer infrastructure for robot learning.
  • Robot foundation model platform - Stack Layer - ACE Robotics releases Kairos, ACE-Brain and ACE-Ego model-layer artifacts for embodied robot control and manipulation.
  • AI robot model framework - Peer Group - ACE-Ego benchmarks across humanoid and dual-arm manipulation tasks.