“ It's like a robot circle.
Among robotic investors, there is an Excel table. The list is simple, companies, founders, graduates, faculty, etc.
After dragging down that list of key nodes in China's robotics industry, you'll pull down a list of key nodes in the Chinese robotics industry -- the functionality, the stand, the coupling, the speed, the clustering, the automation of the Lee Group, the French audio, the functionality, the functionality, the functionality, the functionality.
The answer is the latter. And this is not a regular map, it is marked on every level.
Looking upstream, it's fast-paced to create laser radars, and the first IPO of the stock market in 2024 is it; zero-difference cloud controls as joint modules, high-end executives and smart hands.
Look at the brain, look at the brain, look at the brain, look at the brain, look at the brain, look at the brain, look at the brain, look at the brain, look at the brain, look at the brain, look at the brain.
Look at the scene, Smart is doing surgical robots, Boost shares are doing industrial automation, basically creating special scenarios.
It's hard to find a second university in China that would put a company on every level of the robotics industry chain that is taken seriously by the capital market.
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Forty years of university and industry
Haido is the source of robots, much earlier than the wave of artificial intelligence.
In the 1980s, China's first arc welding robot was born at the University of Hawai'i, where the Hawai'i Robotics Institute was one of the first universities in the country to systematically conduct robotics research.
For the next four decades, the roots of the robot continued to extend. From industrial robots to space robots, from the Hyundai 863-ton project to major national defense missions, Haizhou University has accumulated extremely deep technical reserves in major national projects, and has long played the role of China's national team leader in robotics, which is why it is also known in the industry as China's robotics chief of staff and China's renowned robotics academy.
By the time the body-smart winds blow in 2023, these technological reserves have already passed the laboratory testing stage. Haju is far more than one position ahead of the temporary team chasing the hot spots.
More interesting than history is the school's talent-building mechanism. It is known that at Hawai'i University, the robot competition is a long-standing campus culture. Every few years, a group of representative individuals and companies grow here.
From the racetrack to the workshop, from the laboratory to the production line, the corridor has been uninterrupted for decades.
More importantly, the engineers trained at Haju University have a unique temperament. They don't chase the wind, but they are there when the wind comes.
It took almost two decades for Yvette to explode with industrial robots; it continued to work until the robotics industry really needed the last inch of the final executor; and it took years to bet on the solid-state laser radar route, which was considered by the industry to be high in thresholds and long cycles, and ultimately led to a cumulative sales of 131.48 million units in the first three quarters of this year, exceeding full-year sales in 2025, a new single-quarter high.
This deep digging, the patience of large grain mines, is perhaps the fundamental reason why the Haitian army of entrepreneurs is able to form a systemic advantage in the robotics arena.
Another dark line, one of the three school districts - Harbin, Weihai, and Shenzhen - is spreading this network of talents across the country: Shenzhen's campus is emerging from a rapid fusion of innovation and young technology; Weihai's campus is co-creating an innovation development base with Qingdao; one school district has 23 research teams and more than 70 collaborations with more than 50 local businesses.
At a time when the world's smartest and most robotic track is on fire, the prestigious Northeastern University of Technology has accumulated over four decades of experience, culminating in one of the busiest rounds in China's robotics industry and building a complex network of connections.
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Alumni Line: From Tech Radical to Hard Tech Doorman
In 2009, a student of the University of Hong Kong saw the Japanese Asian-Pacific University student robot team win the competition on television and immediately volunteered. Later, he not only joined the University of Hong Kong, but also became the captain of the competitive robot team, taking the only special prize in the Chinese Games.
Later, he and four of his fellow students from Hawai'i University started from an abandoned factory in Shenzhen and built the Standing Robot, which was being submitted to the Port Authority for listing.
His path is almost the standard template of entrepreneurs at Hainan University, lit by a competition to find partners and start with teammates.
In the spring of 2012, the Haji robot danced for a minute and a half in the band. Four years later, he founded a band in Shenzhen with his brother-in-law.
Now that the IPO consultation has been approved, the main shareholders are Cold Xiaoi, Chen Lin, and Anhui Wei, three Haitian university students, who collectively control 33.72% of the company's shares; the pre-IPO round has taken nearly 1.5 billion yuan, and the list of investors ranges from deeply invested capital to the Topop Group.
At the age of 16, he enrolled in the Haitian University of Electronics and Information Engineering, where he met Pan Yang in a robotics competition, and the two took home the first national first prize, as the only undergraduate student team on the field. Many years later, they returned to Shenzhen to found Guoan, and in December 2025, they landed in the port of Shanghai, becoming the first company to own AI-powered home robots, with a market value of over 18 billion Hong Kong dollars.
The profound technical foundations of Haju University, combined with rigorous training in martial arts, martial arts and home-grown training, formed a large group of technical elite with exceptionally strong engineering landing abilities. These alumni, together with their classmates, formed the core of the founding team.
One of the most difficult steps in starting a business is to find people who can trust each other to hand over the shares.
This is the equivalent of a decade in advance for students who have completed this screening. The only partners who have passed the stress test are those who have filtered the filter and blown the boards through the night.
This is also the reason for the unusually high rate of unemployment among Haitian companies. The partners worked together while at university.
In addition to his classmates, the entrepreneurial model of Shenzhen Tutor+Student Tutor played a decisive role in the development of the fast-growing startup. The current market capitalization of over $1 billion of Shenzhen Stock Laser Radar was founded by Ph.D. Ph.D., Shenzhen University Graduate School.
The rise of accelerated fusion not only marks China's breakthrough in the field of core sensors, but also confirms the tremendous potential for the transformation of H&M models.
A younger generation is taking over this power rod. After graduating from the Haitian Academy of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, he led his team to win the robotics competition in 2025, founding Origin Flow, which reportedly raised over 500 million yuan in operating months.
It can be said that in the field of robotics, the Hainan University has implemented the full ladder of the old Chinese-Chinese three-generation power startup.
In addition, the alumni's radius extends all the way from the founding chair of the new company to the center of power of the old-fashioned industrial company.
From the entrepreneurial point of view, these alumni are entering the robotics industry in various gestures after leaving Hainan University.
In addition to the above-mentioned enterprises that are deeply engaged in the field of perception and automation, in the field of critical components, the Faculty of Engineering also occupies a central position.
He was inspired by the Thinking robot, founder of the joint cultivation system between the DLR and the University of Hawai'i, who also served as deputy director of the German Space Centre Laboratory. With the support of the SoftBank Vision Fund, Thinking robots were valued at over $1 billion. Two DLR-backed Dr. Hawai'i created technical barriers in the two sub-disciplines of hand and power control robots.
The founding founder of the underlying robot, Liu, with an educational background at the University of Hawai'i, the University of Birmingham, Sheffield University and the Imperial Institute of Technology, has taken over 100 orders from the Chinese oil system.
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Professor Lin: The Breaker of the Ivory Tower
Professors at Harvard are the breakthroughs in this entrepreneurial trend, and they will put their long-term academic work at the university into direct industrial transformation, driving the Chinese robotics industry from a boom in innovation to a boom in innovation.
He led the team to independently develop the general-purpose intelligent operating system InsightOS, dedicated to making the development of robots from the craftsmanship of a handful of experts into a mass-participated project.
He is the youngest professor of entrepreneurship at the age of 26, having been hired as a professor at the University of Technology, Shenzhen. The company's TouchWorld touch world model allows robots not only to see the world through touch prediction and high-frequency feedback correction actions, but also to truly touch the world through touch prediction and feedback correction actions.
The company was founded in 2023 and is the only renowned holding company of artificial intelligence (AI) brains in China. The company's co-founder and chief scientist Zhang Min is the assistant director of AI. The company has completed a billion-dollar Pre-A round of financing in October 2026, and its autonomous development has reached 13 billion robotic brains, providing an open world perception and autonomous decision-making capability for the special industry.
It is noteworthy that the entrepreneurship of professors of the Faculty of Habilitation is also a characteristic that they not only come here themselves, but also form an intergenerational legacy of teachers + students.
The story of Zhujiang and Zhujiang has been widely reported in the industry, and after the Zhujiang merger, Zhujiang as an individual investor continued to codify projects such as the Taoiseach's initiative to replicate the experience of Zhujiang unicorns from a single point to a systemic capability.
The inherent technological heritage and interpersonal trust within the laboratory gives entrepreneurs a natural cohesion and complementarity in team building.
In 2004, Lizeong co-founded a graduate school in Shenzhen, China, which later evolved into an automated group of students. She is the co-educational sister of Lizeong Yang, who together with five classmates founded the company of light industrial robots. Lizeong is not an industrialist, but Shenzhen is the soil for his experimentation with the Shenzhen school of entrepreneurship.
This reminds us that the Hubble Circle never closes, it consciously introduces the outer star nodes and lets students take the energy out of the nodes.
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When connections become an industrial chain
The most subtle part of the company is that the alumni line and the professorship line are closed at the level of capital. In the list of foreign investments of the group, there is no doubt that it is intelligent.
A network of internal acquisitions, joint ventures and joint R&D structures is being formed between the companies.
This is a vertical cycle from basic research to the scene landing. Rapid-focused laser radars provide sensing solutions for physically intelligent enterprises, joystick and stand integrated products accumulate real data in industrial and service scenarios, breakthrough intelligent and microtechnology-developed touch models and multi-modal large models in the face of integrated intelligence, while core components enterprises continue to attack in the direction of decelerators, agile hands, micro motors and so on.
This upstream and downstream loophole provides a natural basis for collaboration between HBCUs. Even without a formal alumni organization, the common and low-trust cost of technical language has been an implicit trading advantage.
This is a critical step. The network will be diluted with the spread of restaurants, and the ownership and BOM table will not. When alumni relationships begin to solidify with the ownership structure, supply chain orders, and joint products, the network evolved from social networks to industrial networks.
This is also the essence of what distinguishes Hainan University from the general alumni circle. Most of the well-known alumni networks are capital networks, such as the Qing Dynasty, which has huge alumni funds and investment funds. However, Hainan University is able to use downstream relationships in the industrial chain to bind alumni together, allowing trust to be directly transformed into capacity.
Some investors have said frankly that when you look at the Internet and AI, robots, space and high-end manufacturing, Haido is a security card that investors are willing to bet on.
Of course, the Ph.D. program is not all-encompassing. There is still a narrow gap between technological and business capabilities.
Hardware companies excel in technological breakthroughs ranging from 0 to 1, from sophisticated joint modules to touch-sensitive world models, which are precisely the most scarce capabilities with physical intelligence at the moment. But from 1 to 100 scale-ups, sales systems build, supply chain management, precise control of costs, compliance in overseas markets, these capabilities are not naturally linked to technical training.
Some of them are already on the market, some are rushing to IPO, and many more are in their respective racetracks.
Regardless of whether the outside world notices them, the names of Haidoda are nowhere to be found on the map of human relationships in the robot circle.
A northern city of zero to 30 degrees is continuing to heat up China's robotics industry.
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