Simplexity Robotics (至简动力) Timeline

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… - source: arxiv.org
• 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: finance.sina.com.cn
• 2026-01-16 - 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… - source: finance.sina.com.cn
• 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: stock.stockstar.com
• 2025-10-30 - 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: cj.sina.cn
• 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… - source: finance.sina.com.cn