On October 28, following the completion of a $600 million strategic round of financing by the AI-based chain's parent enterprises in the first half of this year, Elite Robot announced the completion of a new round of financing of $200 million, which will be financed by the company's shareholders and continued by strategic shareholders.
Established in 2023, based on the scientific pool of the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, it has gradually built a full-featured self-development technology system that covers the human body + body brain + flexible handles. It has the ability to autonomously develop and design from the end-user to the robot integrator, and independently developed the CASBOT PA (Perception-to-Action) perception to action model.
Moonset Technology has completed a multi-billion dollar angel+ round of financing
On October 26, Motion Technologies announced the completion of its multi-billion-dollar angel+ round of financing, which will be financed by Shenzhen, Oasis Capital, Intermediate Dynamics, LongCore Investments, China Creative Star, Huawei Capital, Pudong Investments and a number of leading domestic furniture manufacturers.
Founded in May 2026, MoSense Technologies was founded by a team of Hong Kong-based robotics competition champions, focusing on full-body multi-mode touch solutions for humanoid robots. Currently, MoSense Technologies is focused on three core products: full-body electronic skin hardware MoSkin, multi-mode fusion touch algorithm MoTact, and multi-mode fusion touch world action model MoWorld.
Nuclear Unlimited Investment of Nearly Billions of Dollars in Silicon Valley
On 27 October, Nuclear Unlimited announced that Zhejiang Provincial Entrepreneurship Investment Group Limited has completed its nearly billion-dollar investment in the company, which will further support the continued investment of Nuclear Unlimited in core technologies such as physical brain, full-frame AI Infra and multi-form robot applications, and accelerate the transformation of original scientific research results into real-world capabilities.
Nuclear Unlimited was founded in 2023 by former Alibaba Vice President Whitehead. AtomBrain, an autonomously developed, body-brained, layout-causal world model, has built a technology and product system that covers body-brains, DataGrid full-frame AI Infra and multi-form robot bodies.
Aston acquired a portion of the subsidiary for $211 million
On 28 October, Aston announced that it would bid for a 19.4574% stake in its subsidiary Aston Jiangsu Intelligent through public divestment at a tender price of US$211 million. On 27 October, the Shanghai Joint Stock Exchange issued a notice for the signing of a joint venture agreement to transfer the company to National Manufacturing Transformation Upgrading Fund Shares Co., Ltd.
On 23 September, Aston's board of directors reviewed the proposed motion for a resolution on the proposed acquisition of a portion of the holding subsidiary and proposed an increase in the share of Aston's shares in Jiangsu Intel from 50.1506% to 95.0107% by way of a public withdrawal and transfer by agreement.
Focus on space-smart robots
Today, TechCrunch has completed a tens of millions of yuan angel round of financing
On October 26, Space Intelligent Robotics Corporation today announced the completion of a tens of millions of yuan angel round of financing. The round of financing will be led by Liu VGC, Shanghai Transit Capital, the State-owned Green Fund, Intelligent Intelligence, etc. This round of financing will be mainly used for space robotics core device research and development, in-orbit verification and product engineering.
It was founded in April 2026 with a focus on space robotics and a long-term focus on space manufacturing, and is dedicated to building the smart operating base for future space manufacturing. Its self-developed smart controllers, servo drivers, joint modules, multi-dimensional sensors, and environmental tests such as heat vacuum, high temperature, and radiation have been completed.
Accumulated funding of over 2.5 billion yuan this year
China's smart start-up advises on IPO
On October 28, the official website of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) indicated that Shenzhen Intelligent has been in charge of the listing of advisory filings at the Beijing Securities and Exchange Commission, initiating the A-share IPO process, and the advisory body is China Securities.
Established in 2022, it is dedicated to building a full-fledged AI chip development platform for AI-facing AI. Its core products are self-developed light to R1 series AI SoCs (with 500TOPS, 375TOPS) and Huixi Embodied computing products.On October 26, NooCube announced the completion of the Pre-A+++ round of financing, which is an exclusive investment by the Fund. This round of financing will be used to continuously improve the full-modal data services system, expand the scenery and mission coverage of data, and enhance cross-subject adaptation and reuse capabilities.
Established in 2025, the company focuses on Physical AI full-modal data services, providing high-quality, scalable multi-modal training data and related infrastructure capabilities to robotic enterprises, intelligent model teams, universities and research institutions.
China leads flexible textile touch sensing enterprise
Rectangular rubber industry completes A-Round financing of billion yuan
On 29 October, the company announced the completion of a multi-billion-dollar round of A-finance financing, which will be jointly financed by the Xi'an Group, former shareholders Zero to invest, Weihai Port Fusion and Qingdao and Qingdao. The round of funding will mainly focus on the mass production and delivery of textile and electronic skin, the development of touch and multi-mode sensing technologies, and the expansion of products such as robots, smart homes and healthcare.
Established in 2024, it focuses on the development of flexible fiber sensors and integrates them into touch gloves, robotic full-body touch skin, or embedded products such as smart mattresses and smart seats.
Entrepreneur in charge of the pre-dynamic infrastructure model
The angel round of financing is complete.
On October 28, General Electric Corp. completed its angel round of financing, with investors including Red Bull China, Venture Capital and Intermediate Dynamics, the amount of which was not disclosed. This round of financing will mainly be used for the basic model R&D and team building of General Electric Corp.
Rig Everything was founded in September 2026 by Liu, the head of the pre-intergenerational power base model, to position large-language models + body-intelligent, in the direction of Liu's general body-body brain.On October 27, Viv Electronics announced the completion of the multi-billion-dollar C-Round financing round. The round of additional funding for state-owned innovative energy, Huawei PvP, existing shareholders in emerging investments, venture capital, and high-tech start-ups will continue to be coded. This round of financing will be used to push AIDC's solid-state products towards mass production, expand the line of electron flow sensors and robot-connected encoders, and accelerate overseas market expansion.
Vivo Electronics was founded in June 2020 and focuses on intelligent security, with a focus on AIDC 800V high-voltage direct current power distribution, providing contactors, solid-state relays, solid-state switches and power modules; and on robots and smart cars, configuration voltage displacement and angle sensors, torque sensors and joint encoders.
LinYanTech completed tens of millions of yuan in seed wheels and seed+ rounds financingOn Oct. 26, LianTech announced that it has completed tens of millions of yuan in seed rounds and seed+ rounds financing. Seed+ rounds investors include Venture Capital, Zhejiang Torch Center, seed+ rounds investors include Venture Capital, Peanut Venture Capital, Leadership Capital, and former shareholder venture capital continue to invest. The funds will mainly be used for product generation, core components R&D platform construction and team expansion.
Founded in June 2026, RinSoul Technologies provides FaceSoul Agent full-featured emotional interaction solutions for humanoid robots, service robots and emotional companion devices, with flexible face products that include the M1 brand for the education and research market, the W1 brand for commercial services, and the RenSoul brand for the consumer market, as well as the RenSoul brand for the humanoid robot home machine industry.
The company has completed tens of millions of dollars in pre-A funding.
On 29 October, Weibo disclosed that its subsidiary Jianlong Technologies had received pre-A rounds of joint investments of tens of millions of dollars from investors such as Jiaxing Capital, HKSTP Hong Kong Technology Park, and Wolverine Capital. The rounds of funds will be used to expand the core R&D team, deepen the data platforms, synchronize world models with skill asset engines, and enrich the mission and scenario coverage of high-quality datasets.
Founded in 2024 to build the data and model infrastructure of the era of physical AI, based on the data mining model integration platform WorldEngine and the self-developed world model GENESIS-Robotics, Jinshan Technologies has developed a product system covering self-developed first-person point of view high-precision data collection equipment EGOK, scalable numerical acquisition, high-quality datasets and customized data services.Machenta completes a $40 million seed round of financing
On October 27, British robotics company Machenta announced the completion of a $40 million seed round financed jointly by Creandum and Union Square Ventures.
Machenta focuses on the basic model of Instant Robot Learning, which is to demonstrate a new task to a robot that can learn without further training. The model is fully based on simulation data, with no real data required.Foundry Robotics completes $100 million in funding
On 29 October, American robotics company Foundry Robotics announced the completion of its $100 million A round of financing, which was led by Marlinspike Partners, Khosla Ventures, Red Glass Ventures, SE Ventures, Wing VC, Axiom Ventures, and former shareholders Hanabi, Zero Shot Fund.
Founded in 2025, Foundry Robotics, based on its self-developed FoundryOS operating system, provides manufacturing services to customers covering the military, energy, autonomous vehicles, and telecommunications industries, with a focus on improving manufacturing efficiency through intelligent production solutions.
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