Humanoid robots are undoubtedly the hottest track in 2024. Recently, two large financing was born.
01.StarHaiMap completed more than 200 million yuan of Pre-A round of financing
(hereinafter referred to as 'StarHaiMap') officially announced the completion of more than 200 million yuan of Pre-A round of financing on 4 November. This round of financing was led by GL Ventures and Ant Group, followed by Mihayou, Wuxi Venture Capital Group, Tongge Venture Capital, Funplus and old shareholders, with China Renaissance acting as financial advisor.
After the completion of this round of financing, StarHaiMap will continue to promote the research and development of the body and core modules, end-to-end AI algorithms, and scenario solutions, while continuing to expand overseas markets, build global competitiveness, and build the world's leading physical world intelligences.
Founded in September 2023, StarHaiMap is also a physical intelligence startup with two world-class physical intelligence algorithm scientists and an assistant professor at Tsinghua Fork, which gives the company the world's most cutting-edge technological understanding and innovation capabilities in the field of physical intelligence in the direction of perception, mobility, and operation. StarHaiMap's core team also gathers practicing parties with rich experience in innovative technology product landing and automatic driving mass production, which enables the company to work together to overcome the challenges of embodied intelligence technology's difficulty, complexity, and wide range of disciplines. Relying on the scarce full-stack capability configuration of embodied intelligence and strong team execution, StarHub is also continuing to demonstrate globally original disruptive technology landing and eye-catching product delivery achievements.
From the very beginning of its establishment, StarHub has established a development path to build a real business closed loop and data closed loop with the entry point of the landable embodied intelligence products. The company firmly believes that the key performance of embodied intelligence lies in 'one brain, many shapes', and brain intelligence is the key point to realise embodied intelligence. Based on this, the company has built Embodied Foundation Model (EFM) and Real2Sim2Real (RSR) paradigms.
At the previous World Robotics Congress, StarHub made public for the first time the full-size wheeled dual-armed embodied body R1, which is completely independent of forward research and development from hardware to software. R1 is able to efficiently perform full-scene, full-terrain, and full-space passages, and complete operational tasks such as carrying boxes, picking up parts, opening and closing doors, and pressing buttons.
In the commercialisation of the landing process, StarHaitu around the intelligent technology boundary, is committed to building the body of intelligent frontier ecology. Continuously develop the application potential in intelligent manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, cross-border e-commerce, household scenarios, and explore the fastest landing speed of embodied intelligence scenarios application by virtue of clear deployment path, close upstream and downstream joint co-creation.
02.moon spring bionic won nearly 100 million yuan Pre-A round of financing
November 5 news, the humanoid robot enterprise Beijing Dage Yuequan Bionic Science and Technology Co. This round of financing was led by Hongtai Fund, followed by Changxing Fund and Zhongguancun Qihang Fund. The funds raised will be mainly used for humanoid robot research and development investment, the company's talent and technology barriers to continue to build, as well as commercialisation to accelerate the delivery of landing. Wave Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor for the financing.
Yuequan Bionic formally operated in June 2023, and in September, it received a RMB 10 million angel round of financing from Zhongguancun Development Group Qihang Investment. Since its operation, Yuequan Bionic's related technology products have signed nearly RMB 10 million in commercialisation orders.
The humanoid robot enterprise by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor of Jilin University, the International Society of Bionic Engineering Honorary Chairman Ren Luquan academician team incubation; co-founder of Professor Ren Lei innovation of 'bionic pulling body robot theory and technology system' as the basis for the development of a high degree of bionic humanoid robot machine.
At present, the company has completed the bionic compression body dexterous hand and bionic compression body robotic arm products in the field of bionic robots. In addition, the bionic lower limb walking robot prototype has been completed and demonstrated in the laboratory. It is expected that in 2025, the company will develop and assemble a new generation of highly bionic humanoid robot based on the bionic body technology system.
It can be seen that China has a good manufacturing base and a complete industrial chain, which has the ability to provide technical guarantee for the development of humanoid robots, as well as the ability to provide humanoid robots with a wide range of industrial application scenarios. With policy support, the application scenarios of humanoid robots in China are also continuing to open up. Humanoid robots have shown great potential in industrial manufacturing, medical care, service, rescue and many other fields. In the future, humanoid robots will surely become the right-hand man and partner of human beings, bringing more convenience to human beings.