Archon Robotics
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About Archon Robotics
Archon's proposed architecture separates task planning, learned whole-body behaviour, motion generation and low-level control. A task layer interprets goals; the central model combines visual, body-state and tactile inputs; motion generation turns intent into feasible movement; and the controller handles balance, contact and joint limits.
Training brings together human activity, robot demonstrations, simulation and feedback from failed attempts. This is intended to connect decisions about gaze, foot placement, posture and grasping within one learning system. Archon has internal prototypes and demonstrations and is scaling data collection and training. Larger robot fleets and partner pilot deployments form the next development stage.
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Funding
- 2026-06-29 - Seed - Archon Robotics raises several-hundred-million-RMB seed round
Archon Robotics / 源策未来 raised a seed round of several hundred million RMB for humanoid foundation-model R&D and action-data collection. - source: 36kr.com
Investors
- 5Y Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-29
- GaoRong Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-29
- IDG Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-29
- ZhenFund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-29
Team
- Hongyang Li / 李弘扬 - Founder & Chief Robot Officer - His autonomous-driving and embodied-intelligence research background anchors Archon Robotics' whole-body humanoid foundation-model work.
- Tianyu Li / 李天羽 - Co-founder & CEO - He leads Archon Robotics' company buildout around whole-body humanoid foundation models and data systems.
- Li Chen / 陈立 - Co-founder & Head of AI - He leads AI work for Archon Robotics' humanoid foundation-model stack.
Research
- Archon and collaborators introduce PingpongDuo humanoid table-tennis doubles
2026-10-14 - Research Publication - A physical clearance-and-recovery test covers 2.15 metres in2.4 seconds, with a peak speed of2.23m/s. Simulation comparison reports a 13.2% improvement in return success; the physical experiment measures alternating strikes. The system coordinates team positioning with separate footwork and striking skills.
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- 2026-10-14 - Research Publication - Archon and collaborators introduce PingpongDuo humanoid table-tennis doubles
A physical clearance-and-recovery test covers 2.15 metres in2.4 seconds, with a peak speed of2.23m/s. Simulation comparison reports a 13.2% improvement in return success; the physical experiment measures alternating strikes. The system coordinates team positioning with separate footwork and striking skills.
Source - 2026-10-10 - Demonstration - Archon Robotics shares Whole-Body Intelligence debut demonstration
S1 handles task understanding and multimodal inputs; S0 coordinates stabilization and whole-body movement. The company distinguishes autonomous full demonstrations from teleoperated S0 explanations and DAgger correction segments. Its training pipeline combines human demonstrations, real-robot post-training and corrective demonstrations.
Source - 2026-06-29 - Funding - Archon Robotics raises several-hundred-million-RMB seed round
Named investors include ZhenFund, GaoRong, IDG Capital and 5Y Capital. Funds are for humanoid foundation-model R&D, whole-body action-data collection, hiring and R&D centres. The round strengthens an embodied-AI enabling-stack company focused on humanoids.
Source - 2026-03-19 - Company Formation - Archon Robotics is incorporated in Shanghai
Shanghai YuanCe Future Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., operating as Archon Robotics, was incorporated to develop whole-body foundation models for humanoid robots. The legal entity was established in Shanghai on 19 March 2026. The company focuses on humanoid whole-body foundation models and action-data systems.
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