en.Wedoany.com Reported - On June 15, Shihang Intelligent, a marine embodied intelligence company, completed a Series A funding round exceeding 1 billion yuan, setting a global record for the largest single-round financing in the marine robotics sector.
The new investor lineup includes Shanghe Momentum Fund, VertexGrowth under Singapore's Temasek, China's largest agricultural industry fund under CITIC Group, Yuzun Capital, and listed company Dayang Electric. Existing shareholders GSR Ventures, Vertex Ventures China, Huaying Capital, Changshi Capital, Shengjing Jiacheng Capital, and Anyu Capital all made significant oversubscribed follow-on investments.
Chen Xiaobo, founder and CEO of Shihang Intelligent, born in 1989, graduated from Harbin Engineering University and has 19 years of experience in the marine robotics field. At age 28, he won the First Prize of the National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award, becoming one of the youngest recipients of this honor, and led the development of China's first commercial underwater cleaning robot. As a senior engineer, Chen leads the team in continuously advancing core marine robotics technologies and their industrialization.
Proceeds from this funding round will be used for core technology R&D, global market expansion, and industrial chain ecosystem development, aiming to scale up the deployment of marine robots in complex underwater scenarios.
On April 25 this year, Shihang Intelligent released the marine embodied large model "Cangqiong CEORION." This model adopts a unified end-to-end architecture, integrating environmental perception, task understanding, and action generation into a single model, with training data sourced from real-world operations and simulation data. The company has built a marine world model based on millions of hours of commercial operational data, continuously iterating through real-world tasks.
Marine robots equipped with Cangqiong CEORION can cover 12 major categories of underwater operations, including inspection, detection, cleaning, grasping, cutting, welding, exploration, search and rescue, and emergency response, without the need to frequently switch between multiple models. In simulation tests, the model achieved a task success rate exceeding 90%, with fine-grained control positioning and grasping success rates also exceeding 90%, matching the level of professional diving operators. Its zero-shot adaptation capability in unfamiliar marine environments, varying water quality, lighting changes, and heterogeneous robot platforms exceeded 70%.
The challenge of marine operations lies not only in identifying targets but also in understanding the environment. In turbid waters, low light, and complex currents, robots must integrate multi-source perception and possess physical reasoning capabilities. Shihang Intelligent has embedded a physical reasoning module within the Cangqiong CEORION architecture, enabling the model to predict risks and optimize decisions before execution. Company test data shows this capability can reduce collision accident rates by 80%. Under weak or no communication conditions, the robot can still autonomously complete planning and execution.
The ocean is one of the most challenging scenarios for robotics technology, with extreme conditions such as low light, high turbidity, complex currents, limited communication, high pressure, and corrosion imposing stringent requirements on robots. Shihang Intelligent has fully self-developed six core systems: propulsion, control, sensing, navigation, sealing, and deployment and recovery. Each system boasts complete independent intellectual property rights and continuous iteration capabilities, forming the only commercial deployment technology system for marine robots.
Currently, Shihang Intelligent's robots possess full-ocean-depth operational capabilities from 0 to 10,000 meters, with full degrees of freedom, supporting autonomous navigation and multi-robot collaboration. They are the only products achieving stable commercial deployment at full ocean depth in real marine environments. As of the first half of 2026, the company's order value has exceeded 1 billion yuan, with robots achieving large-scale applications in scenarios such as ship cleaning, marine photovoltaics, offshore wind power, marine ranching, seabed exploration, and marine scientific research.
In January this year, Shihang Intelligent led the development of China's first "Operational Procedures for Underwater Cleaning Robots" in collaboration with institutions including the Water Transport Science Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport. In March, the company won the First Prize of the 2025 China Navigation Society Science and Technology Progress Award, the only first-prize project led by a private enterprise that year. In April, Shihang Intelligent was selected as the only Chinese company for the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore's national Underwater Hull Inspection and Cleaning Program (CFP), marking the entry of Chinese technology enterprises into the top-level design circle of the global maritime core ecosystem.
Following the completion of this funding round, Shihang Intelligent will continue to increase investment around its six core technologies, the marine embodied large model, and global scenario applications.
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