"Archon Robotics" has completed a seed financing of several hundred million yuan.
36 Kr learned that Archon Robotics, a full-body embodied brain company, recently completed a seed round financing of several hundred million yuan. The investors in this round include leading US dollar funds such as ZhenFund, Gaorong Ventures, IDG Capital, and 5Y Capital, as well as the Gobi Ventures & HKU Joint Fund, MiraclePlus, and Shanghai Chuangzhi Academy. Lighthouse Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor. The funds from this round will be mainly used for the R&D of the full-body humanoid foundational model, the collection of multi-modal full-body motion data, the expansion of the talent team, and the establishment of R&D centers in multiple regions and an industry cooperation ecosystem, so as to accelerate the implementation of the open-source humanoid foundational model within this year.