D-Robotics

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About D-Robotics

The RDK product family scales from compact development boards to the RDK S100, which combines application CPUs, a brain-processing unit and real-time microcontroller cores. In the S100 architecture, the CPU and 80- or 128-TOPS BPU handle perception, multimodal models and higher-level reasoning, while four Cortex-R52+ cores support deterministic joint and motion control.

D-Robotics pairs the hardware with ROS 2 packages, model-deployment tools, camera expansion and more than 200 sample algorithms. This gives robot manufacturers a development route spanning early prototyping, neural-network optimisation and embedded deployment without building the complete compute and software environment internally.

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Products

Operations

Output & shipments

  • Shipments

    2026-09-17 - D-Robotics said cumulative Sunrise-series chip shipments exceeded eight million by the first half of 2026 and its embodied-AI business had reached mass-production-level shipments. - Sunrise-series chips across applications

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Supply

Supply chain relationships

  • Bosch Sensortec

    Inbound - Sensing Perception - Bosch Sensortec BMI088 is integrated on the MCU expansion board for D-Robotics RDK S100

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  • Analog Devices

    Inbound - Sensing Perception - Analog Devices MAX96712 deserializers are installed on the camera expansion board of D-Robotics RDK S600 Developer Kit

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  • Bosch Sensortec

    Inbound - Sensing Perception - Bosch Sensortec BMI088 is installed on the MCU expansion board of D-Robotics RDK S600 Developer Kit

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  • Yahboom

    Outbound - Robotics Compute - Yahboom sells ROSMASTER M3 configured for the D-Robotics RDK X5 compute platform

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  • G-Pulse Electronics

    Outbound - Compute & Control - G-Pulse GRC1.0 robotics controller is built on the D-Robotics RDK S100 platform

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  • Xiaoyu Zhizao

    Outbound - Compute & Control - D-Robotics Sunrise S600 was selected for Xiaoyu Zhizao's industrial embodied-AI programme, with model adaptation completed

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  • Yahboom

    Outbound - Compute & Control - Yahboom offers ROSMASTER M1 kits with D-Robotics RDK X5 included

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  • Yahboom

    Outbound - Compute & Control - Yahboom offers ROSMASTER A1 kits with D-Robotics RDK X5 included

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  • TARS Robotics (China)

    Outbound - Compute & Control - TARS Robotics adopted D-Robotics Sunrise S600 for embodied-AI computing

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  • Humanoid Robot (Shanghai)

    Outbound - Compute & Control - Humanoid Robot (Shanghai) adopted D-Robotics Sunrise S600 for embodied-AI computing

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  • Yahboom

    Outbound - Compute & Control - Yahboom offers RDK Robot Car kits with D-Robotics RDK X3 or X5 included

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  • UBTECH Robotics

    Outbound - Compute & Control - UBTECH adopted D-Robotics Sunrise S600 for embodied-AI computing

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  • Quectel Wireless Solutions

    Outbound - Compute & Control - D-Robotics Sunrise 5 X5M is integrated in Quectel SH602HA-AP robotic computing modules

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  • PaXini

    Outbound - Compute & Control - PaXini adopted D-Robotics Sunrise S600 for embodied-AI computing

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  • X Square Robot

    Outbound - Compute & Control - X Square Robot adopted D-Robotics Sunrise S600 for embodied-AI computing

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  • GigaAI

    Outbound - Components - D-Robotics supplies Sunrise S600 edge-compute platform for GigaAI embodied-model deployment

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  • Spirit AI

    Outbound - Compute & Control - Spirit AI adopted D-Robotics Sunrise S600 for embodied-AI computing

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  • X-Humanoid

    Outbound - Compute & Control - X-Humanoid adopted D-Robotics Sunrise S600 for embodied-AI computing

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Funding

Investors

  • Hillhouse Ventures - Participant - VC - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-03-16 - latest 2026-09-17
  • Linear Capital - Participant - VC - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-03-16 - latest 2026-09-17
  • Vertex Growth - Participant - VC - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-03-16 - latest 2026-09-17
  • Hexuan Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-03-16 - latest 2026-04-08
  • Huangpu River Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-03-16 - latest 2026-04-08
  • Prosperity7 - Lead - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-03-16 - latest 2026-09-17
  • Wuyuan Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-03-16 - latest 2026-04-08
  • Yunfeng Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-04-08 - latest 2026-09-17
  • 5Y Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-09-17
  • Chuxin Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-08
  • Didi - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-08
  • Dunhong Assets - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-16
  • Envision Group - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-08
  • Feidian Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-16
  • Hefei State-owned Capital Venture Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-09-17
  • Jiuhe Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-16
  • Kelian Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-08
  • Lisi Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-16
  • LOOK Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-08
  • Meihua Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-08
  • Meituan - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-09-17
  • MGH Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-08
  • Mirae Asset - Lead - Investment Firm - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-09-17
  • Nanshan Zhixin Investment - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-09-17
  • Plum Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-16
  • Prosperity7 Venture Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-08
  • T-Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-08

Team

  • Wang Cong - CEO - Wang leads D-Robotics as it supports robotics startups and developers using RDK hardware, cloud tools, algorithms, and developer ecosystem programs.

Timeline

Events

  • 2026-09-17 - Funding - D-Robotics closes $400M Series C funding round

    The round included a strategic investment from a leading global internet company alongside institutional and returning investors. D-Robotics said the capital will expand Sunrise chips across compute tiers and connect data collection, model training, simulation, inference and deployment. The company reported cumulative Sunrise-series chip shipments above eight million units in the first half of 2026.

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  • 2026-09-14 - Partnership - D-Robotics and GigaAI integrate embodied models with Sunrise S600

    GigaWorld supplies scene generation, action-consequence prediction, policy evaluation and failure-sample retraining. GigaBrain handles language understanding, spatial perception, task decomposition and edge decision-making, while GigaWorld-Policy generates and recovers actions. The partners plan model conversion, quantisation, operator adaptation, inference acceleration, memory optimisation and power tuning around GigaBrain-0.7.

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  • 2026-07-18 - Partnership - SmartSens and D-Robotics integrate robot-vision sensing and edge compute

    SmartSens introduced three 1:1-format global-shutter sensors spanning 1.2 to 4 megapixels and 80 to 130 frames per second. The sensors are being adapted to the Sunrise S600 ISP and its 560-TOPS edge-compute platform. The combined stack targets V-SLAM, obstacle avoidance, visual navigation and manipulation workloads.

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  • 2026-07-16 - Production Milestone - D-Robotics validates Sunrise S600 for mass-production deployment

    The S600 passed production-readiness validation with more than 20 customer programmes cited. Integrations span multiple robot categories and embedded physical-AI workloads. The milestone supports volume deployment readiness rather than a disclosed shipment total.

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  • 2026-06-11 - Partnership - D-Robotics and BeingBeyond deploy Being-H-Flash on Ascend S600 edge AI chip

    D-Robotics and BeingBeyond announced a strategic partnership for embodied-intelligence deployment. Being-H-Flash was deployed on D-Robotics’ Ascend S600 chip with real-world testing near 20 FPS. The companies also optimized the model for Ascend S100 and other platforms.

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  • 2026-04-08 - Funding - D-Robotics raises $150M Series B2 at $1.5B post-money valuation

    Strategic participants included Prosperity7 Venture Capital and Envision Group, alongside financial investors MGH Capital, Yunfeng Capital, T-Capital, LOOK CAPITAL and Kelian Capital. Existing shareholders Hillhouse Ventures, Hexuan Capital, Linear Capital, Huangpu River Capital, Didi, Wuyuan Capital, Chuxin Capital, Meihua Ventures and Vertex Growth also participated. The $270 million disclosure is cumulative Series B financing across B1 and B2; the Series B2 round itself was $150 million.

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  • 2026-03-16 - Funding - D-Robotics raises $120M Series B1 to expand embodied AI robotics infrastructure

    D-Robotics completed a $120 million Series B1 financing, bringing its cumulative Series A and Series B financing at that point to $220 million. The round combined industrial capital and financial investors, including Didi, BAIC Capital, Synstellation Capital, and returning shareholders such as Hillhouse Ventures and Linear Capital. The financing reinforced investor appetite for infrastructure-layer embodied AI companies rather than only robot OEMs.

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  • 2026-03-16 - Funding - D-Robotics completes additional financing in December 2025

    Prosperity7, Saudi Aramco’s venture-capital fund, was the only participant identified by name in the report. The financing followed the company’s $100 million Series A completed in May 2025. The source described the December transaction as separate from the $120 million Series B1 completed in March 2026.

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  • 2026-01-07 - Product Launch - Quectel launches SH602HA-AP smart robotic computing module

    The module uses the D-Robotics Sunrise 5 chip platform and integrated Ubuntu. Quectel says it supports robotics use cases with up to 10 TOPS BPU computing power. The module can work with Quectel LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi 6 and GNSS modules for connected robotics systems.

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  • 2025-11-17 - Partnership - D-Robotics and Fourier partner around the RDK S600 platform

    Fourier’s full-size Care-bot GR-3 humanoid was identified as a system that would use the RDK S600. The cooperation targets innovation in embodied intelligent interaction rather than development of a D-Robotics robot body. Fourier was named as one of the first global strategic partners for the S600 platform.

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  • 2025-07-04 - Partnership - D-Robotics launches global Gravity Program for robotics startups

    D-Robotics said its platform had supported more than 200 early-stage robotics companies across over 100 robot-product categories. Technical support includes RDK hardware discounts, cloud-platform credits, SDKs, internal documentation, one-to-one support and early access to new RDK products. The programme also offers media, talent, capital, supply-chain and overseas-expansion support.

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  • 2025-05-01 - Funding - D-Robotics completes $100M Series A in May 2025

    Named participants included Hillhouse Ventures, Wuyuan Capital, Linear Capital, Hexuan Capital, Jiuhe Ventures and Vertex Growth. The syndicate also included Lisi Capital, Dunhong Assets, Feidian Capital, Plum Ventures and Huangpu River Capital. 36Kr described Hillhouse, Wuyuan, Linear and Huangpu River Capital as early investors in Horizon Robotics.

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Relations

Relationships

  • GigaAI

    Embodied AI Stack Partner - D-Robotics and GigaAI are integrating GigaAI world and embodied models with the Sunrise S600 edge platform.

  • BeingBeyond

    Embodied AI Partnership - D-Robotics and BeingBeyond deploy Being-H-Flash on Ascend S600 edge AI chip

  • Xiaoyu Zhizao

    Compute Partner - Xiaoyu Zhizao and D-Robotics adapted Xiaoyu's industrial manipulation model to Sunrise S600 ahead of welding validation.

  • Fourier Intelligence

    Rdk S600 Strategic Partner - D-Robotics and Fourier Intelligence cooperate on embodied interaction using the RDK S600, including its planned use in Fourier’s Care-bot GR-3.

  • SmartSens

    Robot Vision Integration Partner - SmartSens and D-Robotics announced a robot-vision stack combining square global-shutter CMOS sensors with the Sunrise S600 edge-compute platform.

  • Spirit AI

    Embodied AI Platform Partnership - Spirit AI and D-Robotics partner on an integrated embodied-AI stack combining Spirit v1.5 with the Sunrise S600 computing platform.

  • Amazon

    Partner - D-Robotics Gravity Program partner ecosystem (cloud / program support).

Context

Comparable profiles

  • Qualcomm

    comparable profile - Robotics Development Compute Kit

  • Ambarella

    stack adjacency - AI Compute Component Supplier · Edge AI Compute Supplier · Low Power AI Acceleration

  • Intel

    stack adjacency - AI Compute Component Supplier · Edge AI Compute Supplier · Embedded Real Time Control

  • ADLINK Technology

    stack adjacency - Edge AI Compute Supplier · Robotics Compute Developer Platform · Embedded Real Time Control

  • MemryX

    stack adjacency - Edge AI Compute Supplier

  • Premio

    stack adjacency - Edge AI Compute Supplier

  • Radxa

    stack adjacency - AI Compute Component Supplier · Edge AI Compute Supplier

  • GIGABYTE

    stack adjacency - AI Compute Component Supplier · Edge AI Compute Supplier

  • Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics

    stack adjacency - Edge AI Compute Supplier

  • Huixi Intelligence

    stack adjacency - Edge AI Compute Supplier

  • SiMa.ai

    stack adjacency - Edge AI Compute Supplier

  • Chipforge

    stack adjacency - Edge AI Compute Supplier

Shared workflows

Context tags

  • AI compute component supplier - Stack Layer - D-Robotics supplies AI compute components for robotics.
  • Robotics compute developer platform - Stack Layer - D-Robotics provides robotics compute developer platforms and SDKs.
  • On-device AI inference - Workflow - D-Robotics platforms run on-device AI inference for robotics.
  • Robot perception compute - Workflow - D-Robotics BPU accelerates robot perception and vision processing.
  • ROS robotics development - Workflow - D-Robotics RDK platforms support ROS robotics development.
  • Edge AI and robotics compute layer - Stack Layer - D-Robotics RDK series are edge AI compute platforms for robotics.
  • Robotics development compute kit - Peer Group - D-Robotics RDK X3/X5/S100 are robotics development compute kits.
  • Low-power AI acceleration - Capability - D-Robotics BPU provides efficient low-power AI acceleration.
  • Embedded real-time control - Capability - D-Robotics boards support real-time embedded control.
  • Robot compute supply chain - Customer Environment - D-Robotics serves the robot compute and edge AI supply chain.