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KNOWIN-X1

About

About KNOWIN-X1

KNOWIN-X1 is a wheeled, dual-arm embodied robot being developed for household tasks, monitoring and human interaction. Each arm has seven degrees of freedom, while the complete body has 23. A three-part folding arrangement switches between working and storage postures, reducing the folded height to 40 centimetres or less so the machine occupies less space when it is not operating.

Knowin lists a combined dual-arm payload of 6 kilograms, an approximate mass of 50 kilograms and up to 10 hours on standby. Vision, depth sensing and LiDAR are fused for environmental awareness and layered obstacle avoidance. The company's GLOW system is described as its generative world-learning software for ongoing task development.

29 SEPT 2026

KNOWIN raises new funding as X1 moves toward production

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Operating environments: Intended indoor household space
  • Navigation and obstacle avoidance

    Claimed - Move through indoor spaces using layered obstacle avoidance. - environment: Intended indoor household space

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Timeline

  • KNOWIN raises several hundred million yuan in Angel+++ round

    2026-09-29 - Funding - Zhengxingu Capital, Nanshan strategic investment and Walden participated in the round. Capital will support GLOW training data and generalisation, KNOWIN-X1 engineering validation, production preparation and specialist hiring. The Angel+++ announcement came 49 days after Knowin disclosed its RMB500 million Angel++ financing on 10 August 2026.

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  • Knowin completes RMB500 million Angel++ financing

    2026-08-10 - Funding - Redpoint China, SenseTime Guoxiang Capital, Walden Technology and L2F Guangyuan Entrepreneurs Fund participated in the round. The capital will support GLOW model development and expansion of the company's engineering team. Knowin will also fund engineering validation and mass-production preparation for the KNOWIN-X1 home robot.

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Context

Market context

Domestic mobile-manipulation robot from KNOWIN, positioned for household automation tasks where usability, cost, and safe operation in homes shape the product design.

  • Target environment: Factories, warehouses, labs, service sites and controlled indoor environments where wheeled manipulation can operate safely.
  • Workflow context: Autonomous navigation, object handling, dual-arm or arm-based manipulation, teleoperation and facility task execution.
  • Customer context: Industrial operators, logistics teams, research labs and service organizations evaluating mobile manipulation.
  • Deployment model: Commercial or available product positioned for customer use, integration or developer adoption.
  • Commercial maturity: Publicly presented as commercial or available, with maturity depending on deployment scale and support coverage.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on site fit, manipulation reliability, safety, navigation, integration effort and task economics.
  • Market position: KNOWIN Household Robot sits in the mobile-manipulation lane, using mobility plus arms to pursue practical physical tasks.
  • Adjacent products: Kinisi 01, DexForce W1, Stretch RE2, Quanta X2

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