en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 6, 2026, Hangzhou-based embodied intelligence startup Westlake Robotics Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. officially announced the completion of its Pre-A+ funding round. This round was led by existing shareholder Xiaomiao Langcheng, with new investors Xingzheng Capital and Beiyu Capital jointly participating. The funds will primarily be used for the research and development of its unified full-body large model technology.
Founded in June 2021, Westlake Robotics is the first independent, high-quality achievement industrialization and transfer project from Westlake University in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, co-incubated by the university's Machine Intelligence Laboratory and Natural Language Laboratory. The founding team consists of three core figures: Founder Professor Wang Donglin, currently the Chief Scientist of the National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 Major Project, Deputy Director of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Westlake University, and Director of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory, has been deeply engaged in reinforcement learning and robotic embodied intelligence for many years, publishing over 150 papers in top AI and robotics conferences and journals such as ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, and RSS; Co-founder and CEO Du Haitao previously served as General Manager of Product and Operations at Alibaba AI Labs and was a core founder of Tmall Genie; Co-founder and Chief Scientist Dr. Zhang Yue is currently a Professor at Westlake University and Vice Dean of the School of Engineering, with his main research areas being natural language processing and language models.
Westlake Robotics' technical approach is centered on an end-to-end embodied intelligence large model. The company's self-developed end-to-end base large model possesses capabilities such as multi-modal instruction following, pose completion, and behavior explanation, achieving single-session learning of thousands of tasks. The team innovatively combines the large model with reinforcement learning, using reinforcement learning as the executor for the large model, demonstrating real-machine effects such as coordinated upper and lower body movement, natural gait, and generalization of arbitrary motions. On this basis, the company has also built the world's largest human full-body joint motion trajectory database, providing large-scale, high-quality data support for model training.
In March 2026, Westlake Robotics launched the humanoid robot "Titan o1," equipped with the world's first general action pre-training large model, GAE. This product, independently developed by Professor Wang Donglin's team at Westlake University, enables the robot to break through geographical and distance limitations, imitating various human actions anytime and anywhere, achieving the first engineering implementation of an action generalization large model in the robotics field. Traditional humanoid robots generally rely on pre-programmed actions, with hand and foot control systems operating independently and lacking coordination; in contrast, Titan o1, relying on the GAE large model, can achieve millisecond-level synchronization with human movements, accurately replicating various impromptu actions. Even if the operator makes sudden movements like stumbling or losing balance, the robot can quickly adjust its posture and maintain stability. Currently, this GAE telepresence system has moved out of the laboratory and is open for customization to the entire society, having been deployed in drama performances and various competition venues at multiple universities nationwide.
In terms of funding rhythm, this Pre-A+ round is the latest milestone in the company's capital process. In November 2023, Westlake Robotics completed its angel round of financing, led by Zizhu Xiaomiao Langrui Fund; in January 2025, the company completed an angel+ round of nearly 100 million yuan, led by Jinko Group's Jinneng Fund and Benchi Capital; in February 2026, the company completed a hundred-million-yuan level Pre-A round led by SAIF Partners. The follow-on investment by existing shareholder Xiaomiao Langcheng and the entry of new investors Xingzheng Capital and Beiyu Capital in this round demonstrate investors' continued confidence in the company's unified full-body large model technology direction.
Westlake Robotics stated that in 2025, its business scenarios have already covered multiple industries including scientific research, new energy, real estate and property management, logistics, animal husbandry, and automotive, and it has signed strategic cooperation agreements with several group companies to accelerate the industrial application of embodied intelligence. With the continuous iteration of its unified full-body large model technology and the advancing mass production of the Titan o1 humanoid robot, Westlake Robotics is accelerating its transition from single-point technological breakthroughs to large-scale industrial deployment.
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