Verified Events
DateTypeCompanyHeadlineSegment
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.
Astribot raises RMB1B at RMB15B valuation
- TouKong Donghai led the round; Hongtai Fund, the Ninghai Xingtaihe Fund managed by Guanghua Sunshine, Shanheng Capital and returning investor Xianmu participated.
- The capital will support model iteration, hiring, commercialization and production-capacity development.
- June’s earlier B-series financing announcement disclosed more than RMB1 billion across multiple financings.
Lumos Robotics receives tens-of-millions-yuan strategic investment from Keli Sensing
- Keli force-sensing hardware and joint-torque sensors are planned for deeper integration with Lumos robot platforms.
- Lumos NexCore connects data collection, model training, skill evaluation and deployment across the company's embodied-robot systems.
- Lumos develops bipedal, wheeled-arm and wheel-legged platforms for industrial and commercial environments.
Minerva Humanoids raises approximately $10M pre-seed for hazardous-work robots
- Long Journey Ventures and Credo Ventures co-led the round, alongside participants including MVP Ventures, Kaya, Compound and Hugging Face.
- Remote specialists use a VR headset for critical manipulation while Minerva Intelligence manages balance, fall recovery and navigation.
- Initial prototypes are manufactured and assembled in Germany, with software and AI primarily developed in the United States; paid pilots begin in fall 2026.
KNOWIN raises several hundred million yuan in Angel+++ round
- 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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BlueBug Embodied raises reported tens of millions of RMB in angel funding
- The company was founded in March 2025 by a team including Xi’an Jiaotong University researchers and robotics engineers.
- Its Mantis Standard modular humanoid is an embodied-AI development platform available since September 14.
O-ID raises pre-seed funding for modular factory humanoids
- Hustle Fund, Techstars and angel investors also participated in the round.
- The robot design uses replaceable joints, limbs and compute modules intended for on-site servicing.
- O-ID signed a letter of intent with Sumitomo Electric to discuss possible wire-harness technology use; it is not a supply order.
Feather Robotics discloses pre-seed financing
- Builder Capital, Geometry, SEED Innovations and Virgo VC also participated.
- SEED Innovations said its $1 million commitment, announced in May, converts at a qualifying round or liquidity event subject to a $60 million valuation cap.
- Feather said it had delivered its first customer order within nine months of founding and surpassed $1 million in revenue.
Genisom AI closes Series B of several hundred million RMB
- UAE-based Stone Venture led the round.
- Hongshan Capital, GDF Financial, Wuzhong Rongyue, Wuzhong Financial Holding, Neusoft, Highpower Technology, Vision Capital and Riyee participated.