Zhejiang Humanoid
About
About Zhejiang Humanoid
The Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center develops the NAVIAI platform family around a common humanoid control and embodied-intelligence architecture. NAVIAI-i2 is a 165 cm, 60 kg humanoid with 41 degrees of freedom, a dual-kernel controller and high-rate joint communication. Vision and force control support manipulation, while a swappable battery is intended to extend operation beyond a single charge cycle.
Newer WA and i-series platforms extend the programme into research, manufacturing demonstrations and service applications. The centre develops the robot body, joint systems, control software and higher-level intelligence with support from Zhejiang universities, government and industrial partners. This structure gives researchers and companies access to a regional development platform while allowing components and task capabilities to be tested with manufacturers before wider deployment.
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Products
Operations
Orders & commitments
- Order / commitment
2026-05-21 - Zhejiang Humanoid and Jack Technology signed for 2,000 customized NAVIAI humanoid robots for apparel manufacturing. The disclosure is a booked customer-order signal, not confirmed delivered or installed units. - NAVIAI apparel-manufacturing order
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Deployments
- Customer site
2025-08-15 - A customized NAVIAI humanoid operated at Beko Turkish production base on touchscreen, door-opening and inspection workflows. - NAVIAI-i2 factory deployment - Beko Turkish production base
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Supply
Funding
- 2026-01-22 - Pre-A - $62.1M - Zhejiang Humanoid raises RMB 450M Pre-A financing
Reported Pre-A financing of RMB 450M with a long investor list and stated use-of-proceeds themes around iteration, talent, scale production and scenario expansion. - source: finance.sina.com.cn
- 2024-08-17 - Equity financing - $84.2M - Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center closes a CNY 610.5 million equity financing round
source: marketscreener.com
Investors
- SUPCON Technology - Lead - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-08-17 - latest 2026-01-22
- China Merchants Innovation and Technology - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-22
- Fengyuan Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-22
- Lenovo Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-22
- Ningbo Industrial Internet Institute - Participant - Strategic Industrial - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-01-22
- Ningbo Yunyi Enterprise Management Partnership - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-08-17
Timeline
Events
- 2026-10-16 - Manufacturing - Lenovo expands Shenzhen pilot-production base and adds six manufacturing partners
The MaaS workshop expanded from 4,000 to 11,000 square metres; Lenovo reports fourfold capacity expansion. The first 50 MileBot exoskeleton units were assembled, tested and delivered in under a week after materials were ready. Existing work includes TITA volume production, Daimon tactile-sensor production preparation and Zhejiang Humanoid dexterous-hand manufacturing.
Source - 2026-05-08 - Commercial Order - Zhejiang Humanoid signs 2,000-unit apparel humanoid robot order with Jack Technology
Zhejiang Humanoid signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Jack Technology for 2,000 customized humanoid robots for apparel manufacturing scenarios. Coverage says the agreement establishes a long-term supply and scenario-application cooperation model between the two companies. The order targets garment-industry workflows rather than a generic humanoid deployment.
Source - 2026-01-22 - Funding - Zhejiang Humanoid raises RMB 450M Pre-A financing
Zhejiang Humanoid completed a RMB 450M Pre-A financing round. Reported investors included SUPCON Technology, Lenovo Capital, Fengyuan Capital, Ningbo Industrial Internet Research Institute, CASUN, Zhichang Technology and multiple government-backed and market funds. Reports said the company planned to use the financing for core technology iteration, talent development, product-scale production and deeper multi-industry scenario expansion.
Source - 2025-11-23 - Product Launch - Zhejiang Humanoid introduces NAVIAI-I3 for inspection
The 1.8-meter robot was described with walking and running capability at speeds up to nine kilometers per hour. Patrol and inspection were the target applications, while volume production remained work in progress at the Ningbo developer.
Source - 2025-08-15 - Deployment - NAVIAI humanoid robot begins factory deployment at Beko's Turkish production base
A customized NAVIAI robot arrived at Beko's Turkish production base in mid-August 2025 with a Zhejiang Humanoid technical team. The robot was deployed on factory tasks including touchscreen tapping, refrigerator-door opening and quality-inspection routines. China Daily reported in December 2025 that the robot had operated on site for four months.
Source - 2024-08-17 - Funding - Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center closes a CNY 610.5 million equity financing round
A MarketScreener article summarized an equity financing announcement totaling about CNY 610.5 million dated August 17, 2024. The surfaced transaction details identify SUPCON Technology as the largest participant with CNY 285.5193 million and Ningbo Yunyi Enterprise Management Partnership as another named investor. This is the clearest disclosed financing event tied to the center's early scale-up and industrialization phase.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Beko
Deployment Partner - Beko deployed a customized NAVIAI humanoid at its Turkish production base for factory touchscreen, door and inspection workflows.
- Jack Technology
Commercial Order - Zhejiang Humanoid and Jack Technology signed a cooperation agreement covering 2,000 customized garment-production humanoids.
Context
Market context
NAVIAI-i2
Comparable profiles
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stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion · Dexterous Manipulation
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stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion · Dexterous Manipulation
- RobotEra
stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion · Dexterous Manipulation
- Apptronik
stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion · Dexterous Manipulation
- Foundation Robotics
stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion · Dexterous Manipulation
- Agility Robotics
stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion
- Humanoid
stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion
- Persona AI
stack adjacency - Dexterous Manipulation
- DexForce
stack adjacency - Dexterous Manipulation
- 1X Technologies
stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion · Dexterous Manipulation
- Unitree
stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion
Shared workflows
- Holiday Robotics
workflow adjacency - Industrial Task Execution
- Standard Bots
workflow adjacency - Industrial Task Execution
- ISYBOT
workflow adjacency - Industrial Task Execution
Context tags
- Bipedal locomotion - Capability - NAVIAI is a humanoid robot platform; keep derived unless product spec source is attached.
- Dexterous manipulation - Capability - Garment workflow requires fabric handling, positioning, stacking and unloading.
- Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Reported named order and factory-use evidence support deployment-facing maturity, but keep source_note caveat because much evidence is secondary.
- Humanoid industrial builder - Peer Group - Zhejiang Humanoid/NAVIAI is tied to industrial humanoid development and reported garment robot order activity.
- Industrial task execution - Workflow - NAVIAI is reported in factory and industrial task contexts.
- Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Zhejiang Humanoid develops humanoid robot systems through an innovation-center structure.
- Factories - Customer Environment - NAVIAI activity is reported in factory and garment manufacturing contexts.
- Garment material handling - Workflow - Reported 2,000-unit Jack Technology order is for garment-scene robots handling fabric identification, grasping, spreading, positioning, stacking and unloading.
Commercial
- Zhejiang Humanoid signs 2,000-unit apparel humanoid robot order with Jack Technology
2026-05-08 · Order / contract · Strategic cooperation coverage describing a 2,000-unit customized humanoid program for apparel manufacturing workflows with Jack Technology.
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