Chinese startup X Square Robot has received a $143M funding from heavyweights like ByteDance and HSG for embodied intelligence development.
Chinese robotics company X Sqaure Robot has raised $143.3 million in a Series A++ round backed by heavyweights ByteDance and HSG .The group of investors also included government-backed investment firms, such as Beijing Information Industry Development Investment Fund, Shenzhen Capital Group , Nanshan SEI Investment, and Wuxi Capital Group.
Aiming for widespread use in homes, hotels, and logistics, the Chinese firm specializes in creating humanoid robots and general-purpose embodied AI. It is well-known for its Quanta X1/X2 wheeled humanoid models with dexterous hands. Founded in 2023, it is one of China’s most well-funded startups in the field of embodied intelligence development.The startup has developed its own vision–language–action model, WALL-A, that combines VLA systems with world models to form an integrated architecture.By using world models to predict actions and causal reasoning to interpret feedback, the system improves a robot’s ability to generalize to new tasks without prior training. This approach allows robots to perform mobile manipulation more effectively in complex, unstructured environments.A star-studded shareholder listWith this deal, X Square Robot has added ByteDance to a list of shareholders that already includes Chinese tech giants Meituan and Alibaba Group.Meituan has been a major backer of X Square Robot since its early days, leading and participating in the company’s initial financing rounds, including its Series A. Those early rounds raised several hundred million yuan. Meituan’s corporate venture capital , Dragon Ball Capital, is also included on the list of participants.Over time, Meituan’s total investment in X Square Robot has grown to more than ¥1 billion , according to media reports.A promising product line-upThe Shenzhen-based startup has launched an array of products, including the general-purpose wheeled bimanual robot Quanta X1 and its successor, Quanta X2, as well as the dexterous hand model ArtiXon.Powered by X Square’s WALL-A embodied foundation model, Quanta X1 uses a wheeled chassis and lightweight robotic arms with a working range of up to 1 m. It operates at a maximum speed of 2 m/s and offers 20 degrees of freedom.On the other hand, Quanta X2 is backed by the full-stack WALL-A, a large operating model. It has a dual-arm payload of 55 lbs , offering 62 degrees of freedom, and stands 5.5 feet tall.The robot features a 4-inch interactive screen that can display real-time facial expressions, a chest-mounted microphone array, and LLM-powered dialogue for more natural human interaction. Both Quanta X1 and X2 have been used to perform real-world autonomous tasks.The X Square dexterous hand is designed to mimic the human hand with precision. Having 20 degrees of freedom and 15 actuators, it can perform 31 different manipulation tasks, such as pinching, grasping, and twisting. It can open and close in under 1 second.X Square Robot: Future plansX Square Robot revealed that its full stack of self-developed embodied AI software and hardware played a major role in cutting costs for building the AI robots.The company is now moving toward mass production and commercialization across multiple sectors, beginning with industrial manufacturing, logistics sorting, home-based elderly care, and commercial cleaning.
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