Recently, there have been frequent updates on financing in China’s domestic robot sector. Leveraging technological breakthroughs and scenario innovation in their respective niche tracks, a number of enterprises have successfully secured new rounds of capital support. Driven by both capital and technology, China’s robot industry is accelerating toward a new stage. From precision operations in industrial scenarios to risk response in special fields, and to emotional interaction on the consumer end, all niche tracks are thriving. Even in core industrial manufacturing links such as Automatic Injection – Molded Part Feeding And Assembly, efficiency upgrades are being achieved through the penetration of robot technology, further improving the layout of the industrial ecosystem.
Intelligent Manufacturing Network has learned that several robot companies have recently completed new rounds of financing. Shenzhen Xuanchuang Robot Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Xuanchuang Robot”), which focuses on special robot application scenarios, completed a multi-ten-million-yuan Pre-A round of financing; Beijing Boqing Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Boqing Technology”), dedicated to the R&D of crawling welding robots, secured a multi-ten-million-yuan Series B financing; and Beijing Shouxing Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Shouxing Technology”), an enterprise specializing in ultra-bionic emotional interaction robots, also completed a new round of financing.
Xuanchuang Robot Completes Multi-Ten-Million-Yuan Pre-A Round of Financing
The investor for Xuanchuang Robot’s this round of financing is Oriental Fortune Capital, with Cloud Joy Capital serving as the financial advisor. The funds raised will be mainly used for R&D investment and market expansion.
Founded in December 2022, Xuanchuang Robot focuses on the development and application of special embodied intelligent robots. Its products are divided into two categories: operation and maintenance robots and composite operation robots, with key focus on petrochemicals, nuclear power, new energy, and emerging special industrial scenarios.
Special robots, together with service robots and industrial robots, form the three major robot industries. They mainly refer to robots applied in special industrial fields, with special functions and the ability to adapt to special environments. Special operation scenarios are often associated with dirty, dangerous, arduous, and tiring work, which is difficult to complete by manual labor alone. Industries in this category are characterized by high risk, low reliability, and high labor costs.
Relevant data shows that China’s special robot market maintains stable growth with huge industry potential. The annual compound growth rate exceeds 20%, and the market scale is expected to reach 30.6 billion yuan by 2025. It is believed that with the continuous expansion of the special robot market, Xuanchuang Robot is expected to embrace broader development prospects.
Boqing Technology Secures Multi-Ten-Million-Yuan Series B Financing
Recently, Boqing Technology successfully completed a multi-ten-million-yuan Series B financing, with investors including Xinyishang Investment, Jinshi Investment, and Guangmintou Investment. At the beginning of this year, Boqing Technology completed a nearly 100-million-yuan strategic financing from Sinopec. Previously, the company also received investments from Triumph Venture Capital, Yida Capital, GSR United Capital, Yizhuang Guotou, and Zhongguancun Qihang Fund.
According to Boqing Technology, the company was founded in January 2017 and specializes in the R&D, production, sales, and service of intelligent special robots. Its product portfolio includes trackless full-position crawling welding robots, construction steel structure wall-climbing welding robots, and pipeline welding robots. In particular, its core product, the trackless full-position crawling welding robot, is an original Chinese innovation and a global pioneering product. Currently, the company’s products have achieved numerous successful application cases in fields such as oil and gas chemical industry, shipbuilding, construction steel structures, rail transit, energy and power, and nuclear power engineering.
This round of financing will further accelerate Boqing Technology’s layout and development in the field of intelligent welding, promoting its technological innovation and product upgrading.
“Looking ahead, the company will continue to focus on six major fields: oil and gas chemical industry, shipbuilding, nuclear power engineering, energy and power, rail transit, and construction steel structures, and strive to become a leader in the crawling welding robot industry,” said Feng Xiaobing, founder of Boqing Technology.
Shouxing Technology Completes a New Round of Financing
On August 18, it was reported that Shouxing Technology, an enterprise specializing in ultra-bionic emotional interaction robots, announced the completion of a new round of financing. This round was led by Shunwei Capital (founded by Lei Jun), with existing shareholders China Merchants Venture Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group, and Zhiyuan Robot increasing their investments beyond the set amount, followed by Qiji Innovation and Five Seasons Capital. Deep Blue Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor. The funds raised will be mainly used for the continuous iteration of emotional base models and the commercialization of multi-scenario products.
Public information shows that Shouxing Technology was founded in June 2024 and is an enterprise focusing on the R&D of high-end, ultra-bionic humanoid robots. Its product line covers service robots, educational robots, medical auxiliary robots, and other fields to meet the needs of different industries for highly intelligent and bionic robots, aiming to provide the market with robot products featuring high anthropomorphic characteristics.
It is worth noting that in the early stage of humanoid robot industrialization, most manufacturers focus on scenarios such as industrial production. However, Shouxing Technology has taken a different path, entering C-end and B-end interaction scenarios with higher emotional value density and stronger emotional connections. It regards emotional interaction as a core breakthrough point to build intelligent entities with real “joys, angers, sorrows, and joys” and other emotions.
Hu Yuhang, founder of Shouxing Technology, stated in an interview with relevant media that today, with large models driving rapid progress in language interaction, besides “being able to speak,” “understanding social interaction” is a key factor determining whether humanoid robots can enter thousands of households. He pointed out that “human-like empathy value” will inevitably become an important entry point for embodied intelligence to enter public life, and the positioning of humanoid robots is shifting from “functional tools” to “intelligent entities with emotions.”
Conclusion
Currently, major robot companies are advancing their financing processes continuously, and the future prospect of the robot market is “promising.” From risk avoidance in special scenarios to precision operations in industrial links, from experience upgrading in emotional interaction to the automated transformation of basic manufacturing processes such as Automatic Injection-Molded Part Feeding and Assembly, China’s robot industry is gradually building a complete ecosystem covering “high-end R&D – scenario implementation – industrial empowerment” with a development pattern of multi-track parallel advancement and full-chain penetration, providing a “Chinese solution” for the development of the global robot industry.
