Insider Brief
- X Square Robot has raised nearly $276 million in a Series B round led by Xiaomi’s strategic investment arm, as the embodied AI startup pushes toward deploying general-purpose household robots, according to China Daily.
- The company, backed by Alibaba, ByteDance and Meituan, plans to launch robots powered by its WALL-B foundation model starting in late May, targeting everyday tasks in complex home environments using multimodal learning trained on real-world data.
- X Square has partnered with 58.com for early large-scale home deployments and follows a roughly $140 million Series A++ round in January, signaling continued momentum in scaling consumer-facing embodied AI systems.
X Square Robot has raised nearly $276 million USD in a Series B round led by Xiaomi’s strategic investment arm, as the embodied AI startup looks to bring general-purpose robots into the home, according to China Daily.
The company, backed by Alibaba, ByteDance and Meituan, said it is preparing to deploy a new household robot powered by its in-house foundation model, WALL-B, starting in late May. The model is designed to handle everyday tasks in dynamic home environments, which the company said remain a key challenge for existing robots.
X Square said its approach moves beyond traditional vision-language-action systems, using a multimodal model trained on real-world data from hundreds of households to better manage unpredictable scenarios.
The company has partnered with 58.com to begin deploying robots into homes, where they will work alongside human cleaners in what it described as early large-scale consumer trials.
In January, X Square Robot completed a roughly $140 million Series A++ round backed by ByteDance and HongShan, adding to prior support from Alibaba and Meituan as it advanced its embodied AI platform.
Image credit: X Square Robot
