en.Wedoany.com Reported - On June 15, Daxiao Robot announced the completion of its Angel+ round of financing, with investors including Geely Capital, CDF-Caijing, Shenzhen Capital Group, Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Fund, Muxi Shares, Shengyu Investment, Fosun RZ Capital, Huakong Capital, Lingang New Area Fund, Yuzi Zhangquan, among others. Existing shareholder SenseTime Guoxiang Capital continued to increase its investment, and Gaojie Capital served as the long-term financial advisor. The funds from this round will be primarily invested in world model research and the development of "integrated hardware-software" commercial solutions. Combined with the previously completed Angel round, Daxiao Robot's cumulative financing in the first half of 2026 has reached the hundred-million-dollar scale. This event can be cross-verified through TMTpost's financing news and relevant financial platforms.
Daxiao Robot is a startup focused on embodied intelligence, with its core direction not being the mere manufacturing of robot bodies, but rather building a stronger "embodied brain" for robots. The company previously released the "Kaiwu" World Model 3.0, which builds multimodal understanding, scene generation, and behavior prediction capabilities for embodied intelligence scenarios. This allows robots to understand spatial relationships, object interactions, human actions, and task changes through high-fidelity virtual environments before entering the real world. SenseTime previously disclosed that the funds from Daxiao Robot's Angel round were used to advance the "human-centric" ACE embodied full-stack research and development paradigm, accelerating environmental data collection, the development of the Kaiwu World Model 3.0, and the scaled deployment of the embodied super brain module.
The new investors in this round cover industrial capital, local funds, hard-tech funds, and chip companies, indicating that capital's focus on the underlying capabilities of embodied intelligence is expanding from complete robots to models, computing power, software platforms, and commercial scenario synergy. For embodied intelligence to truly enter scenarios such as energy, transportation, cultural tourism, logistics, manufacturing, and public services, mechanical structure and motion control alone are insufficient. Robots also need to understand complex spaces, predict environmental changes, judge task sequences, and transfer capabilities between different bodies. The value of the world model lies in establishing a more stable intermediate layer between the robot "seeing the world" and "taking action."
"Integrated hardware-software" has also become a key direction for Daxiao Robot's subsequent commercialization. Related cooperation information from SenseTime shows that Daxiao Robot has been adapting its world model capabilities with domestic computing power, robot bodies, chips, and hardware ecosystems. Previously, Daxiao Robot collaborated with SenseTime and Sugon, aiming to advance the capability building of embodied intelligence from perception to action, relying on multimodal foundation models, spatial intelligence, world models, and domestic computing platforms. Muxi Shares also cooperated with Daxiao Robot on the adaptation of the Kaiwu World Model 3.0 and GPUs.
The signal released by this financing round is that the embodied intelligence track has entered a stage of competition in engineering and scenario deployment. Over the past year, industry focus has been on humanoid robot demonstrations, motion capabilities, and mass production of complete machines. As the hardware supply chain gradually matures, the market has begun to reassess "whether robots can truly complete tasks." In real-world scenarios, robots must face dynamic crowds, non-standard objects, complex lighting, narrow passages, temporary obstacles, and long-chain tasks. Relying solely on fixed programs and a single vision model makes generalization difficult. By directing financing funds towards world models and integrated hardware-software solutions, Daxiao Robot is attempting to address the shortcomings in cognition, planning, and execution within the commercialization of embodied intelligence.
The company's early financing pace also reflects the track's heat. In February, Daxiao Robot completed its Angel round of financing, led by Ant Group, with follow-on investments from Qiming Venture Partners, Goldscape Capital, Hony Capital, Lenovo Capital, and SJTU Fund's Hanyuan Assets, among others, with SenseTime Guoxiang Capital continuing to increase its investment. After completing the Angel+ round, the company has received support from multiple batches of industrial and financial capital within half a year, indicating that its technical roadmap and ecosystem positioning have gained recognition from more institutions. Whether it can subsequently translate its financing advantages into deliverable products still depends on the training effectiveness of the world model, the efficiency of real-world data collection, hardware adaptation capabilities, and the speed of customer scenario deployment.
Competition in embodied intelligence will not stop at financing amounts. Whether models can generalize across scenarios, whether robots can stably execute tasks, and whether systems can operate continuously at customer sites are the key criteria for testing a company's value. After this financing round, Daxiao Robot will have more funds to refine its world model and integrated hardware-software solutions, but it will also face higher demands for commercialization validation. If the company can form a closed loop between the "Kaiwu" world model capabilities, robot bodies, domestic computing power, and industry scenarios, its subsequent development will not just be a single startup financing event, but will also become an important sample for observing China's embodied intelligence transition from technical demonstrations to large-scale deployment.
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