Recently, the leading general-purpose robotics company "ZiLiangJi Robots" announced that it has successfully completed a 1 billion yuan A++ round of financing. This round of financing features a formidable lineup of top-tier investment institutions and diversified local industrial platforms, including ByteDance, Sequoia China, Beijing Information Industry Development Fund, Shenzhen Capital Venture, Nanshan Strategic New Industry Investment, and Xichuan Investment.
Notably, this transaction marks the first investment to be finalized since the establishment of Shenzhen Capital Venture's specialized new technology investment fund. At the same time, with ByteDance's entry, ZiLiangJi Robots has become the only general-purpose robotics company in China that has received investments from three major internet giants: ByteDance, Meituan, and Alibaba. The cross-domain synergy of capital fully reflects the market's deep recognition of its core technology maturity and large-scale application potential.
Wang Qian, founder and CEO of ZiLiangJi Robots, stated that the second half of the competition in the general-purpose robotics industry essentially boils down to the comparison of data loop capabilities and the efficiency of system self-evolution. Currently, around the world, efforts are being made comprehensively in terms of data resources, logical models, and computing power to break through the operational bottlenecks of traditional robots in complex scenarios.
ZiLiangJi Robots was established at the end of 2023 and has always adhered to an end-to-end R&D approach. The company's core team consists of senior experts from universities such as Tsinghua University and the University of Southern California. Its self-developed multimodal architecture has demonstrated strong generalization capabilities in high-value scenarios such as industry, logistics, and elderly care. This round of funding will be mainly used to accelerate the deep integration of intelligent systems and robot hardware, and further promote its scene deployment and mass production globally.
