Simplexity Robotics (至简动力)
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About Simplexity Robotics (至简动力)
Simplexity Robotics, or 至简动力, develops general-purpose embodied robots and the software stack used to train and operate them. Its architecture connects foundation models, on-device learning, fleet data and robot hardware so systems can acquire manipulation behaviours across industrial environments.
The i7 Pro is a wheeled mobile manipulator built for factory delivery, combining navigation, perception and articulated handling without the complexity of bipedal locomotion. Simplexity uses deployed robots to feed a continuing data and model-improvement loop. Industrial deliveries began in 2026, marking a transition from platform development into customer operations.
Products
- i7 Pro
i Series
Funding
- 2026-03-09 - Fifth financing - Simplexity discloses five rounds totalling 2 billion yuan
Simplexity disclosed that it completed five rounds in under six months, raising CNY2 billion cumulatively; Gaorong led the latest round. - source: finance.sina.com.cn
- 2026-01-23 - Pre-A+ - Simplexity Robotics completes Pre-A+ funding round
Sina Finance reported on 23 January 2026 that Simplexity Robotics had disclosed a Pre-A+ financing with Lanfeng Capital, Alibaba, Tencent Investment and Legend Capital among the investors. - source: finance.sina.com.cn
- 2026-03-10 - Angel - Simplexity Robotics completes angel funding round
Sina Finance reported that Simplexity Robotics completed an angel round in October 2025 with Yuanjing Capital as investor and separately described later rounds. The report does not disclose a standalone angel-round amount, so the event remains non-numeric. - source: cj.sina.cn
Investors
- Alibaba - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-01-16
- Gaorong Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-09
- Lanfeng Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-16
- Legend Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-16
- Tencent Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-16
- Yuanjing Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-30
Team
- Jia Peng - Chief Executive Officer
Research
- LaST-R1: Reinforcing Robotic Manipulation via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning
2026-04-30 - Research Publication - The paper introduces Latent-to-Action Policy Optimization to jointly optimize latent reasoning and action generation. LaST-R1 reports a 99.9% average success rate across the LIBERO benchmark suites. Real-world evaluation covers four single- and dual-arm manipulation tasks on Franka Research 3 hardware.
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Events
- 2026-04-30 - Research Publication - LaST-R1: Reinforcing Robotic Manipulation via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning
The paper introduces Latent-to-Action Policy Optimization to jointly optimize latent reasoning and action generation. LaST-R1 reports a 99.9% average success rate across the LIBERO benchmark suites. Real-world evaluation covers four single- and dual-arm manipulation tasks on Franka Research 3 hardware.
Source - 2026-03-09 - Funding - Simplexity discloses five rounds totalling 2 billion yuan
Gaorong Ventures led the latest round; earlier backers across the five rounds included Vision Plus Capital, BlueRun Ventures, HongShan, Legend Capital, CAS Star and Alibaba. The capital will support foundation-model training, robot-body development, data collection and core-algorithm research. The company had produced small batches of its first self-developed robot body and begun proof-of-concept validation.
Source - 2026-01-23 - Funding - Simplexity Robotics completes fourth financing, reported close to $100M
Tencent Investment led the fourth financing and CAS Star participated. Contemporaneous reporting described the round as close to US$100 million rather than an exact amount. A fifth financing was still in progress at the time and was not included in this round.
Source - 2026-01-23 - Funding - Simplexity Robotics completes Pre-A+ funding round
Lanfeng Capital, Alibaba, Tencent Investment and Legend Capital participated in the Pre-A+ financing. The source did not disclose a discrete round amount. The capital supported continued development of Simplexity’s embodied models, data systems and robot hardware.
Source - 2025-11-18 - Funding - Simplexity Robotics raises approximately $50M in Pre-A financing
HongShan and BlueRun Ventures participated in the Pre-A financing. Contemporaneous reporting described the round as approximately US$50 million, so no exact canonical amount is asserted. The financing followed Simplexity’s October 2025 angel round.
Source - 2026-03-10 - Funding - Simplexity Robotics completes angel funding round
Yuanjing Capital participated in the angel financing. The round was the first of five financings Simplexity later disclosed within its first six months. Proceeds supported the company’s unified embodied-model, data-loop and robot-hardware development.
Source - 2025-07-31 - Company Formation - Simplexity Robotics is founded in Hangzhou by former Li Auto executives
Hangzhou Simplexity Technology Co., Ltd. was established on July 31, 2025 The company was founded by former Li Auto executives, with public reporting identifying Jia Peng as CEO and Wang Kai as chairman Public reporting frames the company around a general-purpose embodied intelligence stack for robotics, reusing autonomous-driving technical capabilities for perception, planning, control, and learning
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