"ZhiXing Robotics" Completes Two Rounds of Nearly 100 Million Yuan in Financing in Succession, Providing Core Components for Over 100 AI-Enabled Enterprises | Exclusive Report by 36Kr
36Kr learned that Zhixing Robotics Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhixing Robotics"), a provider of dexterous hands and embodied intelligent robot products, has completed Series B+ and B++ rounds of financing, with a cumulative total of nearly 100 million yuan in the two rounds. This round of financing was led by Shandong Weida, with follow - on investments from institutions such as Guoxing Investment, Wuhu Science and Technology Innovation, and Shanghai Angel Club. Yirong Capital served as the long - term exclusive financial advisor. The funds will be mainly used for product R & D, data collection, and global market expansion.
Zhixing Robotics was founded in 2018 and is committed to the R & D and production of robotic dexterous hands, electric grippers, rotary and linear actuators, and embodied intelligent robot system solutions. It is a national high - tech enterprise and a specialized and sophisticated enterprise in Jiangsu Province. Currently, it has launched a full - series product matrix of intelligent hands, with a load - bearing capacity ranging from 0.1 kg to 150 kg. It is one of the domestic end - effector manufacturers with the most comprehensive product line - up.
Dr. Bai Guochao, the founder and CTO of the company, has been deeply involved in the field of robotic hands for 18 years. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Heriot - Watt University in the UK, a Doctor of Engineering jointly cultivated by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and King's College London, a post - doctoral position from the University of Montreal in Canada, and has served as a researcher at Imperial College London. He has studied under many domestic and overseas experts and scholars in the field of robotics.
1. Build a full - category product matrix and extend from the "hand" to the "body"
The end - effector is the "last centimeter" for an embodied robot to complete its tasks and is also one of the most complex hardware modules. In response to the different requirements for cost, load, and precision in different application scenarios, Zhixing Robotics has long adhered to the principle of combining the sharing of the technical foundation with precise adaptation to scenarios, and has built a full - category product matrix. Two - finger or three - finger hands are used in highly structured industrial scenarios, while five - finger hands with high bionic functions serve unstructured scenarios with strong randomness.
In the second half of 2025, Zhixing Robotics launched the four - finger dexterous hand "Lingsi Hand" using a linkage mechanism and an integrated servo solution. This product has 12 joints, 8 active degrees of freedom, and a grasping load of 5 kg. It is mainly used in industrial scenarios such as logistics sorting and industrial handling. Its drive - control integrated design simplifies external wiring, has the advantages of fast response speed and high repeated positioning accuracy, and is easy to integrate into collaborative robots or industrial manipulators.
The five - finger rope - driven dexterous hand "Shushou Hand" released in early 2026 represents another technical path. It uses a bionic rope - driven structure, has 16 joints, 11 active degrees of freedom, and its motion trajectory can exceed that of a human hand. The core innovation of the Shushou Hand lies in its ability to achieve adaptive switching between left and right hands - the same hand can collect operation data for both left and right hands simultaneously, reducing the data collection cost by half and significantly improving the generalization of algorithm training. It has currently been applied in high - end service scenarios such as aerospace, scientific research and education, and medical rehabilitation.
Compared with similar manufacturers in the industry, Zhixing Robotics' technical advantages in the hardware solution lie in, on the one hand, the adoption of self - developed under - actuated mechanisms, reconfigurable mechanisms, and flexible adaptive mechanisms, and its adaptive grasping solutions have obtained multiple invention patents; on the other hand, its self - developed drive - control integrated servo system reduces external wiring, which can improve the reliability of robotic hand products, especially suitable for the narrow space of micro - small grippers.
Based on the core components, Zhixing Robotics has also launched an embodied intelligent robot platform with dual - arm collaboration. The platform has a dual - arm collaborative load of 30 kg, an arm span of 850 mm, a vertical working range of 0 - 2200 mm, and a three - dimensional environmental perception accuracy of ±0.1 mm. It can be paired with Lingsi Hand or Shushou Hand products to perform heavy - load handling and fine - operation tasks.
The robot platform of "Zhixing Robotics"
Dr. Bai Guochao said that the extension from robotic hand components to the whole machine is an inevitable choice for the company's dual - wheel - driven strategy of "core components + industry solutions": "To truly solve complex problems such as aero - engine maintenance and power equipment operation, we must understand how the hand, arm, eye, and brain work together. Building the whole machine is not to compete with ontology manufacturers, but to better define and iterate dexterous hand products."
2. Produce industrial - grade core components and supply to leading embodied robots
"Some start - up companies established in the past two years often develop hand products first and then look for applicable scenarios. We first find the scenarios and then define the design of the hand." Bai Guochao introduced that Zhixing Robotics initially entered high - tech barrier fields such as aerospace, heavy - load logistics, and power equipment, and continuously accumulated and refined its hardware product capabilities.
For example, in scenarios such as precise weighing, sorting, and pulsating assembly and disassembly of aero - engine blades, Zhixing Robotics has accumulated a large amount of high - quality industry - specific data sets. Then, it uses these data to feed back into model training, further empowering the products to achieve more generalized operation capabilities, thus forming a positive cycle of hardware, algorithms, and applications.
"Compared with performance and entertainment scenarios, industrial scenarios have high requirements for the stability and reliability of robotic hands, and almost no errors are allowed." Bai Guochao said that all products of Zhixing Robotics undergo strict life - span tests before delivery. For example, the "data - collection hand" used for data collection and pre - trained models can be used more than 5 million times, which is more than 100 times the industry average. Based on long - term accumulation in the supply chain field, the product price of Zhixing Robotics is only about half of that of similar products.
Relying on the combined advantages of "industrial - grade quality + cost - effectiveness", Zhixing Robotics achieved mass shipments of thousands of sets of products in 2025, with an order revenue of nearly 100 million yuan, and became the exclusive or core supplier of data - collection supporting hardware products for enterprises such as Zhipu Robotics, Tencent, Huawei, Zhipingfang, and Ruierman Intelligence.
"In the past, we mainly focused on continuous in - depth development in hardware such as drive control algorithms. Now, we pay more attention to the integration of drive control, the iteration of underlying algorithms, and data closed - loop." Dr. Bai Guochao said that currently, Zhixing Robotics has formed the ability to form a data closed - loop from data - collection hardware, industry data collection to the embodied intelligent robot ontology. He believes that when the industry enters the stage of large - scale application, data will become a deeper moat than the hardware itself: "Whoever can run through the data closed - loop in real scenarios will gain an advantage in the next - stage competition."
In addition to the continuous development of mass - produced products and data - collection business, in 2026, Zhixing Robotics will also launch a micro - finger joint module with a high degree of freedom to strengthen the core technical foundation. Considering the need for robot data sets and pre - trained models to optimize tactile perception capabilities, Zhixing Robotics will also launch dexterous hand products with visual - tactile perception functions to achieve technological breakthroughs in core general operation capabilities.
"Currently, the progress of dexterous hands in general operation capabilities is still very slow. Even Tesla's Optimus is still in continuous development. At the hardware level, the difficulties lie in the optimization of high degrees of freedom, high reliability, output force, and control precision, as well as whether the robotic hand has high - resolution perception capabilities and can achieve coordination with the brain. Based on our advantages in the domestic industrial chain and technology development efficiency, I think we are capable of solving some of these difficulties." Dr. Bai Guochao said.