NEXFORM / 新元体
About
About NEXFORM / 新元体
NEXFORM is the operating brand of Hangzhou Yudao Artificial Intelligence Technology. The company grew from a Zhejiang University robotics team and was incubated through the university’s Xinchang joint innovation centre. Its approach combines reusable robot hardware, developer tooling and physical agents that perform specific commercial tasks.
The W 1 platform and LiteArm manipulator families form the current hardware portfolio. NEXFORM provides a toolchain, agent runtime and application distribution infrastructure intended to reuse work across embodiments and reduce adaptation effort. Hotel and property operations are important initial markets. Its stated Physical RSI research direction aims to improve robot capabilities through cycles of deployment, task execution and data feedback. The company reports cooperation agreements covering a large property area; these agreements and signed values do not establish delivered robots, realised revenue or complete operational coverage.
Articles
Funding
- 2026-10-14 - Seed - NEXFORM completes tens-of-millions RMB seed financing
NEXFORM announced completed seed financing of tens of millions of RMB from investors including Gobi Partners and Zhejiang University Youchuang. Its robot platforms and developer software target commercial task automation. - source: news.pedaily.cn
Investors
- Gobi Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-10-14
- 浙大友创 - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-10-14
Timeline
Events
- 2026-10-14 - Funding - NEXFORM completes tens-of-millions RMB seed financing
Investors include Gobi Partners and Zhejiang University Youchuang, without assigned lead status. Hotel/property cooperation values are signed agreements, separate from financing, realised revenue or robot deliveries.
Source - 2026-07-04 - Demonstration - NEXFORM showcases modular robots and arms at CIEI2026
The company exhibited robot platforms and manipulator products at CIEI2026. Hardware modules and task scenarios were presented as a combined development approach. Initial cooperation intentions are separate from signed orders or completed deployments.
Source - 2026-03-06 - Product Launch - NEXFORM introduces ORBIT for human-supervised robot operation
Operators can take over decisions and actions when autonomous robot behaviour reaches a difficult or unfamiliar situation. The platform records decision–action pairs during intervention to support later model improvement. NEXFORM targets hotel, retail and property workflows, including remote operation across regions.
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