The national team invested in a Suzhou-based robotics company.

The financing enthusiasm in the humanoid robot track continues to soar. Apart from the robot body and brain, capital has also set its sights on upstream components and mass - production solutions for complete machines.

Recently, Suzhou Linghou Robotics officially announced the completion of hundreds of millions of yuan in Series B+ financing. The investment was led by the national - level fund Zhongwangtou Fund, followed by Guyu Capital. Many old shareholders, including Jinding Capital, Zhongxin Juyuan, Houwei Capital, Guotai Junan Innovation Investment, and Ginkgo Valley Capital, continued to increase their investments. Duowei Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor for this round and in the long - term.

Before this round of financing, in about half a year, Linghou Robotics had completed five rounds of financing, including this one. The investors included industrial capitals such as NIO Capital and Zhiyuan Robotics, as well as first - tier financial investment institutions.

Although the financing rhythm is intensive, the company itself is different from the current startups going from 0 to 1. Linghou was established as early as 2015. It has been deeply involved in core technologies of visual perception and motion control for more than a decade, aiming to become a global leading enterprise in intelligent manufacturing and components and solutions for embodied intelligence.

To put it simply, Linghou's main business is to manufacture "eyes", "limbs", "cerebellum", and "trunk" for robots, which are also the core components necessary to support the smooth operation of robots. Take the recently concluded 2026 Beijing Yizhuang Half - Marathon and Humanoid Robot Half - Marathon as an example. The event included more than ten types of terrains such as flat ground, slopes, curves, and narrow roads, and set sharp turns close to 90 degrees, which put forward higher requirements for the dynamic balance and real - time decision - making ability of robots. Whether a robot can smoothly pass through obstacles and maintain stable movement, the core components related to visual perception and motion control are crucial.

"Our new technology and product development will focus on the R & D of core components for embodied intelligent robots, and we will continuously achieve new breakthroughs in key technologies such as visual modules, mobile chassis, and humanoid arms. Simply put, it can, like a human, learn various skills, realize from perceiving the scene to autonomously planning and executing tasks, and expand its 'employment' channels, just like Linghou's '72 transformations'," introduced Dong Hao, its founder and chairman.

As an "industry veteran", Dong Hao once worked in international hardware giants such as Shanghai Quanta and Dell, engaging in technology - related work. In 2013, he joined the listed company Bozhong Precision, successively serving as the vice - president and the general manager of the 3C division. He led the team to serve top - tier global customers such as Apple, Meta, Tesla, Luxshare Precision, and Foxconn, and led the automation upgrade of 3C electronics and semiconductor production lines, pushing the division's business to a scale of billions. In January 2024, Dong Hao officially joined Suzhou Linghou Robotics, serving as the chairman and general manager.

Under Dong Hao's leadership, the current R & D team has exceeded 260 people. R & D centers have been established in Suzhou and Shenzhen. The company has accumulated more than 200 patents and participated in formulating more than 10 national and industry standards.

"There are many prototypes, but few can achieve mass production" has been a long - standing pain point in the embodied intelligence industry. Linghou has helped customers achieve large - scale delivery of 'tens of thousands of units' of embodied robots and ranks among the top in the industry in terms of three core indicators: mass - production efficiency, product stability, and cost control.

When talking about Linghou's mass - production logic, Dong Hao said, "At this stage, we are facing a business model of small - batch and diversified production. The queuing production of traditional production lines can no longer meet market demand. Our flexible assembly line should also follow the same core logic." He emphasized that Linghou is fully promoting the modular design of products and the construction of a general platform, enabling multiple functional units to be produced in parallel without being limited to queuing on a single production line, realizing rapid integrated assembly, truly achieving small - batch and diversified production in one stop, and thus achieving an order delivery efficiency beyond industry expectations.

This flexible production model is related to Linghou's early accumulation in the manufacturing industry. Recently, Linghou has established production bases in Wujiang, Suzhou, and Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Among them, the total investment in the Suzhou Innovation Center reaches 1 billion yuan, covering an area of 57.4 mu, with a planned construction area of 104,000 square meters. This base focuses on the fields of intelligent manufacturing and embodied intelligence. After completion, it can achieve an annual production of 850,000 visual modules, 450,000 core motion control components, and 80,000 embodied robots, with an expected annual sales increase of 1 billion yuan. It will become the 'core hub' for Linghou's core component and complete - machine mass production. The factory in Jiaxing is equipped with a leading domestic flexible digital production line. The factory building area is nearly 7,000 square meters, with an expected annual production of 30,000 embodied intelligent robots, which can directly reduce logistics costs by 18 - 22%.

It is reported that R & D investment and production base construction are important uses of this round of financing. The company plans to continuously increase R & D investment in core technologies such as visual perception, motion control, and complete - machine JDM, accelerate the iteration and upgrade of core components, and simultaneously increase the production capacity of core components and complete machines to meet the explosively growing market order demand. In addition, Linghou will also use the financing to deepen its global market layout and actively expand international top - tier customers.

This article is from the WeChat official account "Dongshisi Tiao Capital" (ID: DsstCapital), author: Wei Xianghui, published by 36Kr with authorization.