In just six months, the company has completed four rounds of financing with a total funding of 500 million yuan, and its investment portfolio covers a number of well-known institutions such as SyFU, Xiaoming, Henan Investment Group Fund, Haywill Fund, and others. This round of funding will focus on the development of a unified model of humanoid robots; at the same time, it will set up a smart talent base to accelerate the arrival of smart GPT.
This round of financing is less than a month apart from the previous round of financing, and the high frequency of capital intensive investments fully demonstrates the high recognition of the capital market for the company's technological routes, product deployment capabilities and long-term development potential.
Top startup teams
West Lake robots build a solid foundation of physical intelligence
Established in 2024 and headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang University is the first autonomous quality outcomes industrial transformation landing project in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics. As a general brain company, it adheres to the "General Brain + Human Full Body Brain + Self-Developed Human Essence" triadline of fully self-development routes, and is one of the very few in the country with a full-fledged smart enterprise that includes "AGI cognitive reasoning, full-body movement control, and the three core plates of human hardware automation".
The founding team of the company has a deep academic foundation and an industry perspective.
The founder, Wang Dong-lin, is the chief scientist of the National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 Major Project, a lifelong professor at West Lake University, the deputy director of the Department of Artificial Intelligence, the winner of AAAI's best paper in 2026, a leader in the field of machine learning and machine learning in the country.
The founder, Professor Wang Tonglin
Co-founder Zhang Yue, a lifelong professor at West Lake University, vice dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and internationally renowned expert in natural language processing, led the exploration of large-scale model technology.
Core R&D team members come from leading technology companies such as Ali, Byte, Tencent, Huawei, as well as top offshore universities in Oxford, Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, California, Munich, Qingdao, and Yangtze; they have published over 300 papers at top conferences such as ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, RSS, and some of their cutting-edge results have been applied to underlying algorithm R&D and engineering landscapes.
In 2026, the investment logic of smart racetracks is undergoing a fundamental transformation. The focus of industry competition has shifted from hardware-linked parameters to a general base model for determining the ability of robotic scenarios to be generalized. This is the core racetrack that has been deeply cultivated for a long time since the establishment of West Lake robots, and has created an unrepeatable technological advantage.
Addressing the cognitive disruption problem
Two-tiered architecture drives commercial closure
Currently, the robotics industry is deeply embroiled in software hardware detachment, action script solidification, weak environmental generalization capabilities, and most products can only perform predetermined fixed actions. Western Lake robots break through the industry's usual hardware parameters, landing two pioneering underlying technical architectures, namely the whole-body motion control, the large-brain collaborative reasoning layer, building the core of a whole set of body intelligence, opening up the full technical chain of perception, decision-making, and execution.
GAE: The world's first general-purpose sports model, unlocking the cluster control paradigm of single-controlled machines
Most human-robot motion controls also rely heavily on pre-programming, single-task customization training, movement flexibility and scenery expansion space constraints. West Lake robots originally developed a general-purpose motion model. The GAE personalization system reconstructed robotic motion logic, with milliseconds of low delay remote operation, free programming action generalization, cross-substance compatibility with three core barriers. No pre-recorded action scripts, robots can instantly replicate any human action in real time, only one set of devices can be captured, operators can remotely synchronize multiple robotic control clusters, and land multiple machine remote control modes.
GAE crosses the body and extends 1,300 km for remote control
At the same time, GAE has implemented software-hardware decompression, in addition to adapting the self-developed man-made integrated West Lake o1, it is also able to externally output standardized motion control bases, adapting the vast majority of man-made robot bodies on the market, with a very strong scalable commercial value.
The headmaster of West Lake University and the headmaster of West Lake University shook hands
The world's first large-scale dual-brain pre-training collaborative architecture, complemented by autonomous decision-making dashboards for humanoid robots
In addition to the motion control baseline, West Lake robots built a unique general-size brain double pre-training architecture in the industry that addressed cognitive reasoning and the industry pain points of full-body movement cracking. These included the general-brain fusion visual language model (VLA) and the world model (WM), responsible for environmental perception, task disassembly, complex logical projections, global pathway planning; GAE general-brain adoption of multi-second limb output, dynamic posture calibration.
Commercialization of technological closed-loop landings based on real-world experience to accelerate scale-up of landings
After the two basic core models were developed, West Lake robots launched the fully self-developed artificial intelligence West Lake O1 in 2026, completing the complete technical closure of the "Bottom Algorithm - Pre-Training Large Model - Artificial Hardware Integrator".
Currently, West Lake Robotics has entered into deep collaborations with companies such as Alibaba, Intel, Jindon, Hong Kong University of Technology and others, continuing to build up high-quality human-to-human fitness data sets. At this stage, the enterprise has taken nearly a billion orders, business covering scientific research teaching, data collection, power inspection and other scenarios; in the future, it will also face high-risk industrial patrols, disaster search and rescue, remote precision assembly, etc. to produce complete solutions that are difficult to approach in working conditions, extend human operational capabilities, and replace man-invaded high-risk and unsuitable operating scenarios.
West Lake O1 is booming in business
At the same time, enterprises have signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the people's government of Long Island, which will work together to build a real-world training base for humanoid robots throughout the county. West Lake o1 will officially enter a real-life production environment, relying on real-world training to collect industry scarce, high-quality, full-body sports data. Subsequently, West Lake robots will run through "data collection - model training - a closed chain verification of real-world scenarios; building an intelligent innovation ecosystem with open collaboration", continuing to promote the scale-up of humanoid robots and standardize business landings.
Western Lake Robot and the Long Way People's Government sign a joint field-based training base
Multiple capital continues to be added
Intensity financing certifies the industrialization of general humanoid robots
In terms of state-owned capital, the West Lake robot covers human-scale integrated, general-sized brain-wide industry chains, highly suited to domestic high-end manufacturing, AI autonomously controllable upgrading strategies; marketed agencies look at the company's soft hardware and clear landing paths, multi-scene commercialization patterns can be quickly replicated on a scale, and space is clear.
Investors said that the global body-smart industry has entered the critical development of hydraulic fracturing, West Lake robots with general-sized dual-brain pre-training architecture, GAE general-sport grand model, West Lake o1 humanoid integrated form a complete technical closure, opening up the "basic model, silicon, physical humanoid robots, silicon real industrial scenario" complete chain, and is one of the few scientific research teams in the country with general-sized humanoid robots who have the ability to deliver bulk landings, highlighting the potential for long-term development.
Funding is clear
Technology + talent driven by two wheels, moving to the moment of intelligent GPT
Wang Tonglin, founder of Western Lake Robotics, said that the round of financing will unite the whole body of humanoid models, promote self-developed brain upgrades, and continue to optimize the GAE personalization system, empowering humanoid robots to boost their intelligence capabilities.
Wang Tonglin believes that competition with physical intelligence ultimately lies in the density of talent. The company will rely on Hangzhou's overseas high-level talent training system to establish a complete mechanism from global recruitment to local hiring to allow top talent to come in, stay in, and produce efficiently.
Around the long-term goals of GPT and AGI, West Lake robots have built a system of self-mastering talent, focusing on the underlying core technologies. This system is deeply aligned with the talent policy of Hangzhou City, forming a pathway to the normalization of overseas doctoral, post-doctoral and industrial engineer talents. The company has formed a complete research and development team covering algorithms, systems and hardware.
Driven by the accumulation of original technology, top teams and multiple industrial capital, West Lake Robots will continue to explore the AGI track with full-chain autonomous original technology underpinnings, contributing to the high-quality development of the Chinese humanoid robot industry and driving the industry to embrace the intelligent GPT moment as soon as possible.