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Completed financing, acquisitions, business and personnel changes, orders, capacity, partnerships, customer pilots, deployments, litigation, and accident investigations in robotics. Policy or regulatory releases belong under Policy and regulation; usage methods belong under Guides and practice.
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Zerith Robotics/零次方 ·
Zero Power Robot completes over 100 million yuan funding round led by Runze Group
Zero Power Robot announced the completion of a new funding round of over 100 million yuan, led by Runze Group, with Ningbo Dongli, Jieli Angel, and Pinghu Zexin participating. The company said its order count has exceeded 100 million yuan and revenue is in the tens of millions, with stable monthly mass production of 100 units, and validation completed in more than 20 landmark scenarios nationwide; the article also introduced its technological progress including the 4D augmented model ZERITH-SDA and the brain-inspired dual-stream asynchronous execution architecture ZERITH-V2.
普华资本 ·
Puhua Capital invests 2 billion yuan in Galaxea's B+ round
Galaxea has completed a 2 billion yuan B+ funding round, with investment from Puhua Capital, funds under CICC Capital, Hongtai Fund, and others. This follows its 1 billion yuan B round completed in February 2026. The funds will be used for foundation model R&D and global ecosystem development.
Agile Robots/思灵机器人 ·
Agile Robots completes acquisition of thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering's Europe and North America assets
Agile Robots has completed its acquisition of thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering's Europe and North America assets; the deal was first announced in November 2025.
东方精工 ·
Dongfang Precision and Leju Launch China's First Humanoid Robot Production Line with 10,000-Unit Annual Capacity
On March 29, a humanoid robot production line jointly built by Dongfang Precision and Leju, the first in China with an annual capacity of 10,000 units, was officially launched in Guangdong. The line can roll out one humanoid robot every 30 minutes, covering 24 precision assembly processes and 77 full-dimension inspections, with production efficiency 50% higher than traditional modes; each robot must also pass 41 simulated operating-condition tests before leaving the line. The line uses a flexible design that supports mixed production of multiple models, paired with smart warehousing and AGV automated delivery systems.
线性资本 ·
Manycore Tech Passes HKEX Listing Hearing; Linear Capital Was Earliest Angel Investor
Manycore Tech Inc. has passed the Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing hearing, disclosing its post-hearing information package on March 29. JPMorgan and CCB International are joint sponsors. It will become the first tech company among the "Hangzhou Six Little Dragons" to complete an IPO.
Lavender Hill Capital Partners ·
Elite Robots Completes RMB 600 Million D+ Funding Round
Chinese collaborative robot manufacturer Elite Robots has completed a RMB 600 million D+ funding round, led by several Chinese institutions including Lavender Hill Capital Partners, Fortune Capital, Yuanhe Holdings, Yuanfeng Capital, and the Zhengzhou Embodied Intelligence Industry Fund.
线性资本 ·
Agile Robots and Google DeepMind announce strategic partnership to advance Gemini Robotics in industrial settings
Agile Robots and Google DeepMind jointly announced a strategic partnership that combines the Gemini Robotics foundation model with Agile Robots' scalable industrial robotics platform, with an initial focus on high-value industrial scenarios such as 3C manufacturing and automotive manufacturing.
Agile Robots/思灵机器人 ·
Agile Robots and Google DeepMind announce strategic partnership to integrate Gemini Robotics models into industrial robots
Agile Robots SE and Google DeepMind announced a strategic research partnership to combine the Gemini Robotics foundation models with Agile Robots' industrial robot platform and develop adaptable, reasoning-capable robots. The partnership initially focuses on industrial manufacturing scenarios where reliability and scale are critical, forming a data flywheel through deployment, data collection, model training, and iteration; Agile Robots says it has installed more than 20,000 robot solutions worldwide.
Fauna Robotics ·
Fauna Robotics announces joining Amazon
Fauna Robotics officially announced that it has formally joined Amazon and will operate under the name Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company. The company will continue selling the Sprout Creator Edition robot to new customers and continue supporting existing customers, saying there is no practical change to current operations, while the team is expanding and hiring.
Dobot/越疆机器人 ·
Dobot begins mass production delivery of third batch of full-size industrial humanoid robot ATOM
Dobot Robotics has officially begun mass production delivery of the third batch of its full-size industrial humanoid robot ATOM, deploying it to frontline industrial applications worldwide. ATOM runs on the self-developed DOBOT-VLA model, which combines vision, language, and action for autonomous decision-making; its joint modules have undergone nearly 10,000 cycle tests, and it supports coordinated scheduling with wheeled and multi-legged robots on a unified platform.
线性资本 ·
Amazon acquires Swiss wheel-legged robotics company RIVR, with Linear Capital as lead investor in its first round
Amazon has completed its acquisition of Swiss robotics startup RIVR, and the RIVR team will join Amazon. RIVR was founded in April 2023 and is headquartered in Zurich; formerly known as Swiss-Mile, it completed its first funding round in November 2023, led by Linear Capital with Agile Robots participating, and in August 2024 received joint investment from Amazon, Bezos Expeditions, Sequoia China, and others.
Skild AI ·
Skild AI partners with ABB Robotics, Universal Robots, and NVIDIA to deploy Skild Brain
Skild AI announced partnerships with ABB Robotics and Teradyne-owned Universal Robots and MiR to integrate its general-purpose model Skild Brain into industrial robots, eliminating task-by-task programming and using post-training fine-tuning with a small amount of task data.
RoboForce ·
RoboForce closes $52 million funding round, bringing total funding to $67 million
RoboForce announced an oversubscribed $52 million funding round, bringing its cumulative funding to $67 million. The round was led by YZi Labs, with participation from Jerry Yang. The new capital will be used to accelerate next-generation robot foundation models, scale general-purpose Physical AI robots, and advance manufacturing readiness for commercial deployment.
线性资本 ·
D-Robotics completes $120 million B1 funding round, with Linear Capital continuing to invest
D-Robotics announced on March 16 that it recently completed a $120 million B1 funding round, with Linear Capital, an initial-round investor, continuing to invest in subsequent rounds. Following its $100 million Series A round completed in 2025, the two rounds total $220 million. Investors include industrial capital such as Synstellation Capital, DiDi, and Meituan Longzhu, as well as strategic investment institutions such as Bairui Capital and JiuKun Venture Capital, while existing shareholders including Hillhouse Venture Capital, Vertex Growth, and Linear Capital oversubscribed in the follow-on investment.
Sunday Robotics ·
Sunday Robotics closes $165 million Series B to advance real-world deployment of home robot Memo
Sunday Robotics has closed an oversubscribed $165 million Series B at a valuation of $1.15 billion, led by Coatue, with Thomas Laffont joining the board. The company will stop giving demos and focus on real-world deployment of its robot Memo, with a beta program opening to users this fall. Its engineering team has grown 3x, research 4x, and data operations 5x, and the company says it has a full stack from its Skill Capture Glove and in-house hardware to manufacturing, along with data advantages.
RealMan/睿尔曼 ·
Realman Intelligent announces nearly 500 million yuan in funding to build AUTRON production line super factory
Realman Intelligent announced it has completed nearly 500 million yuan in funding, jointly and strategically invested by industrial parties from multiple listed companies. The funds will go toward product R&D, construction of the AUTRON production line super factory, and global ecosystem development. The article states that its integrated joint modules exceeded an annual production capacity of 100,000 units in 2025, that its robotic arms passed CR L3 certification and achieved a mean time between failures of 50,000 hours, and that the GLN remote operation network and the Beijing Humanoid Robot Data Training Center have accumulated tens of millions of real-machine trajectory segments. The company serves more than 8,000 enterprise users worldwide.
线性资本 ·
Dajie Robotics completes hundreds of millions of yuan in Series D funding to step up industrial embodied intelligence
Dajie Robotics announced the completion of a Series D funding round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, led jointly by the Liangxi Digital Industry Fund managed by Bohua Capital and a fund under CICC Capital, with follow-on investment from the Beijing Shunyi Science and Technology Innovation Group Fund and the Houshayu Zhonghe Runda Industrial Investment Fund; Linear Capital was the Series A investor and increased its investment in subsequent rounds.
RealMan/睿尔曼 ·
Realman provides real-world data for Ant Lingbo's open-source embodied model LingBot-VLA
Ant Lingbo has released and open-sourced LingBot-VLA, an embodied intelligence foundation model. Its pretraining used about 20,000 hours of real-world data covering 9 dual-arm robot configurations, and it outperformed Pi0.5 overall in real-robot evaluations across more than 100 tasks. Realman's wholly owned subsidiary Ruiyuan Robotics provides high-precision multimodal real-world data for the RS-01 and RS-02 robots. The technical report shows that model success rates continued to improve without saturating as pretraining data expanded from 3,000 hours to 20,000 hours.
普华资本 ·
Boundless Dynamics completes over 200 million yuan Angel+ round, third round nearing completion
General-purpose embodied intelligence robotics company Boundless Dynamics announced the completion of an over 200 million yuan Angel+ funding round, jointly invested by Puhua Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group, Innovation Works, Junshan Capital, and Yari Capital, with existing shareholders Sequoia China, Linear Capital, and Hillhouse Venture Capital increasing their investments. The third round of financing is nearing completion, and cumulative funding will reach 800 million yuan.
线性资本 ·
Wujie Dynamics completes over 200 million yuan Angel+ round, cumulative funding to reach 800 million yuan
General-purpose embodied intelligent robotics company Wujie Dynamics announced the completion of an over 200 million yuan Angel+ funding round, with existing shareholders Sequoia China, Linear Capital, and Hillhouse Venture Capital increasing their investment, and new institutions including Shenzhen Capital Group and Innovation Works joining. A third round is nearing completion, and cumulative funding will reach 800 million yuan.