Following successful funding from renowned Middle Eastern and South Korean investors earlier this year, ENGINEAI has now secured consecutive Pre-A++ and A1 rounds in rapid succession. This significant capital infusion within a short timeframe not only validates the technical prowess of ENGINEAI's team, but also underscores the market's high expectations for its product performance and execution capability. Such strong endorsement clearly reflects the industry's recognition of ENGINEAI's unique R&D capabilities in humanoid robotics and its promising industrialization prospects.
ENGINEAI Secures Two Funding Rounds with Strong Backing from Existing and New Shareholders
ENGINEAI Robotics Secures Two Funding Rounds in July 2025In July 2025, ENGINEAI Robotics successfully closed two funding rounds. The Pre-A++ round was led by Xinghang Capital, established with Xiaopeng Motors as an anchor investor. The Series A1 round was led by JD.com, with participation from strategic investors such as Puquan Capital (affiliated with CATL) and Yintai Group, as well as financial investors including Huakong Fund, Guochen Fund (under DT Capital), and Huangpujiang Capital.Existing shareholders, including Middle Eastern capital, Guoxiang Capital, Honghui Capital, Xunshang Venture Capital, and Baohe Venture Capital, also actively participated in both rounds. The strong support from new and existing investors will accelerate ENGINEAI’s progress in mass production delivery, product portfolio expansion, and the commercialization of embodied intelligence applications.
Focusing on technological breakthroughs and dedicated to core R&D in humanoid robotics.
As a rapidly growing enterprise in the humanoid robotics sector, ENGINEAI consistently prioritizes technological breakthroughs as its core growth engine, dedicating relentless efforts to hardware development and algorithmic innovation. The company is committed to creating humanoid robots that integrate high-level intelligence with agile mobility. On the hardware front, its fully self-developed joint modules demonstrate industry-leading performance in key metrics such as explosive power, torque, and rotational speed, providing a solid foundation for highly biomimetic and fluid motion capabilities. Within its algorithmic architecture, the motion control team has tackled the challenges of Sim2Real transfer, establishing a unique technological barrier that effectively bridges the reality gap between simulation and the physical world. This enables the robot to excel in high-dynamic scenarios—executing complex dance routines, acrobatics, high-speed running, and other demanding maneuvers with millimeter-level precision and seamless control.
Global Humanoid Robot Market on the Verge of Explosion; Industry Analysts Project Market Scale to Exceed $100 Billion by 2030.Enterprise-facing scenarios—such as manufacturing, services, and logistics warehousing—represent core adoption fields with significant demand gaps. ENGINEAI has accurately identified these trends and adopted a “hardware open-source + ecosystem profit-sharing” model. Centered on high-performance humanoid robots, the company collaborates with partners across sectors to explore diversified scenario applications. By leveraging cost-effective hardware and agile software to rapidly capture market share, along with an open-source platform to attract developers, ENGINEAI is building a collaborative open innovation ecosystem. With commercially viable applications based on currently attainable technology forming the core business support, the company aims to gradually penetrate consumer households, creating a unique commercial closed-loop and injecting new thinking into industry development.In embodied intelligence—a key technological direction for the robotics industry—ENGINEAI maintains a pragmatic layout strategy. Currently, embodied intelligence faces four core challenges in enterprise adoption: low operational tempo, insufficient motion accuracy, limited task completion rates, and complex closed-chain constraint handling. These issues directly constrain practical requirements for high efficiency, precision, and reliability in dedicated tasks. To address them, ENGINEAI is integrating traditional motion control with reinforcement learning to systematically build a seamless pipeline encompassing motion control, force-aware perception, planning and decision-making, vision-language navigation, localization and recognition, environmental sensing, and dexterous manipulation. The goal is to rapidly achieve whole-body embodied intelligence capable of handling individual complex dexterous tasks based on scaling laws, ensuring the technology genuinely serves real scenario needs.With the successful closure of these two funding rounds, ENGINEAI will accelerate its pace in the second half of the year. On the product front, the company has established a full matrix of bipedal and humanoid robots with graded performance characteristics, and is now advancing pilot production and delivery at scale. Plans are underway to expand the production and delivery team’s scale and capability fivefold, ensuring rapid response to market demand. Technologically, ENGINEAI will increase R&D investment in embodied intelligence, accelerating the scenario-based application and commercialization of core technologies to maintain a leading global competitive position.
Accelerating the Roadmap to Drive Large-Scale Adoption of Humanoid RobotsENGINEAI has established a deep collaborative ecosystem with leading global industry partners, including NVIDIA, Amazon, JD.com, Tencent, and ByteDance. This network spans diverse scenarios such as commercial services, high-risk operations, and cultural tourism & entertainment. Together, we are working intensively to pioneer the large-scale, real-world application of humanoid robots.
Ramping up production capacity is an essential phase in the journey of a tech product from R&D to mass production. Within just two years of its founding, ENGINEAI has leveraged Shenzhen’s robust manufacturing and supply chain infrastructure to actively coordinate resources across suppliers, production teams, and technical experts. Efforts are focused on material scheduling, production line efficiency, and quality control enhancements. The production process has now entered an accelerated phase, with output in certain segments exceeding expectations. The company plans to complete optimization upgrades before Q4 and begin steady delivery of high-quality products, laying a solid foundation for scaling.In talent development, ENGINEAI places “gathering top global experts and building an innovation ecosystem” at the heart of its strategy. The company has launched large-scale recruitment covering core R&D areas such as algorithms, mechanical structure, and control systems, as well as production, operations, and market expansion. With an open and inclusive culture, cutting-edge projects, and competitive compensation, ENGINEAI attracts high-caliber professionals. It has also refined its internal training system, creating growth paths that span from deep technical work to management roles. As the R&D team grows in size and skill, it continues to fuel the company’s long-term development.Looking ahead, ENGINEAI will stay committed to “disruptive innovation” and a “craftsman’s pursuit of excellence,” maintaining its unique brand identity that values both substance and style. Bolstered by strong support from new and existing shareholders, the company will intensify efforts in mass-production and delivery systems, diversified product portfolios, and scenario-based application of embodied intelligence. We sincerely look forward to collaborating with more industry partners to explore the technical boundaries and application potential of humanoid robots, integrating smart technology into daily life and social progress.
Yu Jun, Partner at Shangtang Guoxiang Capital, said:"Since our first investment in ENGINEAI, we have seen significant growth and phased achievements in product iteration, technical validation, team building, and investor recognition—each aspect has become more solid. Our decision to reinvest is rooted in the belief that ENGINEAI will continue to build barriers in the global humanoid robot hardware space and will execute market-oriented commercialization in a highly pragmatic, structured, and step-by-step manner. Tongyang has demonstrated calm and rational leadership in team development, financing strategy, product commercialization, and phase-based prioritization—this kind of steadiness is exactly what the industry needs. We look forward to ENGINEAI achieving even greater results in future technological breakthroughs, mass production planning, and mutually beneficial business collaborations."Yuan Bing, Managing Partner of Xinghang Capital, said:"Humanoid robots are the next disruptive terminal device after smartphones and smart vehicles. With strong hardware R&D DNA, a clear technology roadmap for embodied intelligence, and a product portfolio covering research, industrial, and home scenarios, the ENGINEAI team has positioned itself among the industry's leading players. We are optimistic about ENGINEAI’s ability to accelerate the deployment of humanoid robots in industrial manufacturing and commercial services. We will continue to collaborate with ENGINEAI to explore upstream partnerships and downstream application opportunities, and we expect it to become a key driver in the global industrialization of humanoid robotics."Wang Shun, Vice President of Yintai Group and General Manager of Yinbai Investment, said:"Zhao Tongyang is a successful serial entrepreneur with extensive industry experience and strong team leadership. Under his guidance, the ENGINEAI team has rapidly emerged as a well-known embodied intelligence robotics company in China. The team has not only achieved full-stack in-house R&D of core components but has also deepened cooperation with multiple industrial investors to continuously refine its products. With these advantages, ENGINEAI demonstrates vast potential in the field of embodied intelligence."Zhang Yang, Chairman of Huakong Fund, said:"Embodied intelligence is triggering a new wave of technological and industrial revolution. As a key carrier of embodied intelligence, humanoid robots will gradually enter commercial, industrial, and home service scenarios. ENGINEAI possesses a world-class team of technical entrepreneurs with exceptional product iteration capabilities. Its strengths in whole-body motion control, hardware stability, self-developed core component performance, and hardware cost control make it a first-tier enterprise in China’s humanoid robotics industry. With comprehensive investments across the AI and embodied intelligence robotics industry chain, Huakong Fund will support ENGINEAI in building its industrial ecosystem and steadily implementing downstream applications."Song Yan, Project Lead of Guochen Fund, said:"As a tightly coupled hardware-software product, humanoid robots—empowered by reinforcement learning and imitation learning—are experiencing rapid technological convergence in embodied intelligence. Leveraging sharp industry insight, the ENGINEAI team has adopted a well-timed incremental innovation strategy, bringing together outstanding industry experts to achieve rapid product iteration and breakthroughs that have impressed the entire sector. As a later entrant, it has successfully joined the industry’s first tier. We firmly believe in the ENGINEAI team’s efficient execution, capacity for learning and evolution, and sustained growth potential."
Huangpujiang Capital Chairman Zhao Bowen stated:"Embodied intelligence is a pivotal technology that will reshape future work patterns and fully unlock productivity, boasting immense market application potential. Having begun engaging with ENGINEAI Robotics in 2024, this investment reflects our high recognition of the company’s development and execution. Its team is one of the few in the robotics field capable of full-stack in-house R&D—independently advancing everything from hardware design to algorithm development—while possessing extensive full-machine engineering experience. Robotics is a complex systems engineering challenge that demands comprehensive and balanced technical capabilities. ENGINEAI has taken the lead in commercializing humanoid robots, demonstrating unlimited potential for future commercialization. As a long-term shareholder, Huangpujiang Capital is committed to growing alongside the company, providing multi-dimensional support: from guiding industrial policy at the national level and assisting global market expansion, to upstream supply chain and production line development, and downstream sales channel and application scenario exploration."
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