D-Robotics completes $400 million Series C, focusing on chips and development platforms rather than building robots

D-Robotics announced on September 17 that it completed a $400 million Series C funding round led by Mirae Asset, with participation from Meituan's strategic investment arm and several state-owned and financial institutions, bringing its cumulative funding over two years to about $770 million. The article describes its positioning of not building robots; its chip-level Sunrise series covers 5 to 560 TOPS, and its flagship Sunrise S600 uses a single-chip compute-and-control integrated approach to compete with Nvidia's Jetson, with cumulative shipments exceeding 8 million units and adoption by more than 20 embodied intelligence customers. It also analyzes capital rotating from complete machines to upstream segments such as chips, as well as the ecosystem gap between D-Robotics and Nvidia.