China Physical AI Roundup: GenRobot AI, RoboScience Secure Funding, Plus Anyverse, Orbbec Expand Deals

Insider Brief

• Chinese robotics companies secured new funding and commercial agreements across AI training data, robot models and industrial automation, led by GenRobot AI’s $100 million Series A+ round.
• RoboScience raised several hundred million yuan for AI model development, while Elite Robots, Juqiao Industrial, Yicheng Innovation and iSAGEBOT also secured financing to expand their technologies and operations.
• Anyverse Dynamics and JD.com plan to expand robotic automation to more than 1,000 coffee shops, while Orbbec signed a 10,000-unit equipment agreement and Pudu Robotics opened a European headquarters in Germany.

Chinese robotics companies are drawing fresh investment across AI training data, robot models and hardware, led by GenRobot AI’s $100 million funding round. Other developments include new financing for industrial robots and tactile sensors, major equipment orders and plans to expand robotic automation into more than 1,000 coffee shops.

GenRobot AI

GenRobot AI, which makes gear and software that turn recordings of human work into training data for robots, has raised $100 million in a Series A+ round, Yicai reported, citing the Beijing company.

Strategic backers include SAIC Motor, Baidu, Shoucheng Holdings, Galbot and Malaysia’s Eastworlds. GL Ventures, SUNHELM, CITIC Goldstone, CSC Investment, CCB International and Huatai Zijin joined as financial investors. The round closed in the third quarter. Valuation and use of proceeds were undisclosed. GenRobot’s capture rigs record what people see along with their hand and body movements, and its Matrix platform syncs, cleans and labels the recordings for robot developers, according to TechNode.

RoboScience

RoboScience, another Beijing startup, closed an A2 round of several hundred million yuan led by Amber Capital, Hongruida and Shanghai Semiconductor Industry Investment, NBD reported. The exact amount was undisclosed. CEO Tian Ye, formerly a tech lead on Apple’s AI platform, founded the company in 2024 with Stanford classmate Shao Lin, its chief scientist. Its Visics model is meant to carry manipulation skills across different robot bodies and is offered as a cloud service through Tencent Cloud.

RoboScience also builds the RoboMirage simulation engine and the REX G1 wheeled humanoid. Tian told PEdaily its data pipeline cuts the cost of a training sample to 0.05 yuan (under 1 cent) and that its video library passed 4 million clips this year, up from 1 million. The money will fund model work and pilots in sectors such as logistics and retail.

Anyverse Dynamics & JD.com

Anyverse Dynamics signed a strategic agreement with JD.com, and its dueal-arm wheeled semi-humanoid K15 robots now work with automated lines at two 7Fresh Coffee stores to fill orders without staff, according to a company statement published by Leiphone. The partners plan to expand to more than 1,000 7Fresh stores and to pool resources toward 1 billion yuan (about $140 million) in product cooperation. Timelines and financial terms were undisclosed.

Outside China, Anyverse’s robots are working in French factories and the company is developing test applications with German automotive customers, with coffee shop trials planned in South Korea in the fourth quarter, Gasgoo reported.

Orbbec & Ace Robotics

Orbbec signed a procurement agreement with Ace Robotics and its partners covering 10,000 units of robot vision products and data-collection hardware that works without a robot, according to Orbbec. Orbbec will supply depth and RGB cameras plus capture kits, including handheld units and wrist cameras, that Ace Robotics will use to gather model training data. Deliveries have started. The deal value was undisclosed.

WeRide

WeRide’s data and world-model subsidiary Jingshuo agreed to raise 70 million yuan (about $9.9 million) in a pre-Series A round from Vision Knight Capital, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corp. and Sirius Capital, Zhitong Caijing reported. The deal is subject to closing conditions, and WeRide (WRD) would keep about 67.63% once an employee equity plan is fully granted, according to a WeRide filing with the Hong Kong stock exchange. Jingshuo booked unaudited 2025 revenue of 187.1 million yuan (about $26 million).

Elite Robots

Suzhou cobot maker Elite Robots closed a 200 million yuan (about $28 million) D+ round led by CCB Equity, Zhitong Caijing reported. The company said it has sold nearly 20,000 collaborative robots in more than 50 countries and regions. Use of proceeds was undisclosed.

Juqiao Industrial

Ant Group led a Series A of about 100 million yuan (about $14 million) in Juqiao Industrial, which makes fabric electronic skin that gives robots a sense of touch, Yicai reported, citing adviser Dowway Capital. Funds go to e-skin production, tactile research and products ranging from robots to elder care.

Yicheng Innovation

Yicheng Innovation, a Shenzhen company that supplies Level 4 autonomous vehicles for closed sites such as factories, ports, mines and industrial parks, raised a 200 million yuan (about $28 million) Series C, according to a company announcement reported by PEdaily. Investors include Guangdong Yueke Group, Shanda Investment, Anhui State Investment and Foshan Venture Capital. The company said it holds several hundred million yuan in orders tied to embodied AI.

iSAGEBOT

Shanghai industrial robot maker iSAGEBOT raised a Pre-B round of several hundred million yuan from Jiantou Investment, Nantong Investment Management and Yunqi Partners, 36Kr reported. The exact amount was undisclosed. The company builds robots with one, two, four or six arms and runs them on SageNexus, its own industrial world model.

Proceeds will go to model research, new robot versions, more production lines and overseas expansion. iSAGEBOT said it serves more than 50 Fortune 500 or listed companies, expects revenue to grow 100% to 120% this year and holds more than 500 million yuan (about $70 million) in intended overseas orders. CEO Zhang Jianzheng previously worked at STEP and FANUC.

Pudu Robotics

Pudu Robotics opened a European headquarters in Neuss, Germany, that combines sales, a showroom, training, warehousing and after-sales service, the company said. Pudu said 11 European markets, including Germany and the U.K., have each grown more than 60% a year over the past two years.