- X Square Robot secured nearly RMB 1 billion in Series A+ funding co-led by Alibaba Cloud and CAS Investment, marking Alibaba Cloud’s first investment in embodied AI and signaling rising strategic interest in the sector.
- The startup, founded in late 2023, has developed breakthroughs including the WALL-A Vision–Language–Action model with zero-shot task generalization, an embodied chain-of-thought framework, and the open-sourced WALL-OSS foundation model.
- Funds will accelerate training of large embodied AI models, advance hardware like the Quanta X2 humanoid robot, and expand real-world deployments across industrial and service applications.
X Square Robot has raised nearly RMB 1 billion (USD $140.1 million) in fresh Series A+ financing, a round co-led by Alibaba Cloud and CAS Investment with support from CDB Capital, INCE Capital, HSG, and follow-on backers Meituan, Legend Star, and Legend Capital, the company announced. The deal marks Alibaba Cloud’s first investment in embodied AI, X Squared noted.
“Since our founding in late 2023, X Square Robot has pioneered the end-to-end unified large-model pathway to general embodied intelligence, becoming one of the first companies in China to do so,” the company wrote.
X Square touted its WALL-A Vision–Language–Action model has shown zero-shot generalization in novel tasks, while its embodied chain-of-thought framework allows robots to plan, act, and self-correct in a closed loop. In a nod to the global research community, X Square has also open-sourced WALL-OSS, a foundation model offering advanced reasoning, spatial understanding, and long-horizon manipulation.
On the hardware side, X Square recently introduced the Quanta X2, a dual-arm humanoid wheeled robot equipped with a 20-degree-of-freedom dexterous hand and an exoskeleton-based teleoperation system, the company pointed out. Together, the company’s software–hardware integration strategy aims to create robots capable of high-level reasoning and physical execution in both industrial and service contexts.
