Founded in 2023, Robot was already sold over 200 robots, according to data until June 2025
The Chinese humanoid robot robot company, founded by Tsinghua University, announced on Monday (7.Jul.2025) that captured almost 500 million yuans ($ 69 million) in a round of funding. It is a strong sign of the continuous enthusiasm of IA (artificial intelligence) investors incorporated – when the AI system is inserted into a physical object, such as robots – despite the market in slowdown.
The round was led together by CDH Investments and Haier Capital, with investments from other companies, including Houxue Capital, Meridian Capital, Xianghe Capital and Zhejiang Fore Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd. Investors as Crystal Stream Capital and Tsinghua Holdings Co. Ltd. also increased their participation.
Founded in August 2023, robot Era is the only Ia incorporated company with direct shareholding at Tsinghua University. It was founded by Chen Jianyu, professor at the Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Information Sciences Institute, with the support of the Zhi Institute of Shanghai.
More than 80% of team members are researchers from late institutions such as Tsinghua, University of Beijing, University of California, Berkeley and National University of Singapore.
Prior to this round, the robot was completed another 3 of financing. In October 2024, the company captured 300 million yuans in a round led by Crystal Stream Capital, Vision Plus Capital and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., with additional support from Lenovo Capital and other investors.
In early January 2024, the company closed an angel investment round of over 100 million yuans. Then a seed run by Century Golden Resources Group and Turing Ventures.
A Robot Era projected both o hardware As for the “brain” of humanoid robots, developing control and whole body manipulation algorithms. Its main products include royal humanoid Star1, Q5 wheels service robot, and sky and xhand liters robotic hands. In October 2024, a viral video of Star1 running attracted wide attention on social networks.
In terms of softwarethe company launched its great model incorporated ERA-42 in December 2024, a multimodal model of VLA (Vision-Language-Action) that performs more than 100 tasks-the screening of textile products and reading barcodes to the handling of screws and pipettes-all through voice commands.
Robot was and Tsinghua researchers also co-cooked an article about the VPP (Video Prediction Policy) model, which obtained a high score on the prestigious ICML (International Machine Learning Conference) in 2025. Since then, the VPP model has become fully open source.
By June 2025, Robot was already delivered more than 200 robots, with hundreds of others in mass production requests. More than half of your orders come from foreign customers.
Startup customers cover the service, industrial and research sectors, including Haier Smart Home, Lenovo and Century Golden Resources.
In collaboration with Haier, Robot was planning to launch a residential service robot, while its Q5 robots are in the mall testing, offering reception, orientation, performance and handling items. Its clients also include MIT, Stanford, Berkeley University, Bytedance Robotics Laboratory, and Logistics Company Riamb (Beijing) Technology Development Co. Ltd., where Star1 is already testing industrial tasks such as transportation and digitization.
Although I was incorporated to cope with febrile rhythm at the beginning of this year, humanoid robotics startups continue to attract investments.
Recent businesses include an Angel+ Investment Round (intermediate fundraising phase) of nearly 100 million Yuans by Shanghai Ant Lingbo Technology, a subsidiary of Ant Group, on June 26, the confirmation of a C series by Unite Robotics on June 19 and the 1.1 billion yuans financing ($ 150 million) from Galbot on June 23. In early May, both X Square Robot and Magiclab announced multimillionaire businesses in Yuans.
Still, as the competition intensifies, the main humanoid technologies remain in flow, and the main participants in the industry have not yet committed fully, leaving the future of the uncertainty Ia -incorporated race.
This report was originally in English by the global cash on 8.Jul.2025. Was translated and republished by Poder360 under mutual content sharing agreement.
