"Unbounded Power" completed a new round of financing and has signed a global order worth over 500 million with Envision Group.
On April 27, Unbounded Dynamics, a general embodied intelligent robot company, announced the completion of its Angel ++ round of financing. This round was jointly invested by Envision Group and the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, and was followed by multiple existing shareholders such as Sequoia China, Linear Capital, Hillhouse Ventures, BV Baidu Ventures, Huaye Tiancheng, and Junshan Capital. Meanwhile, the Angel +++ round of financing is nearly completed, receiving support from Internet industry capital, top-tier US dollar and RMB capital. The cumulative financing in the angel rounds exceeded $200 million.
Meanwhile, Envision, a globally leading green technology enterprise, signed a global market order worth over 500 million yuan with Unbounded Dynamics for application deployment in multiple countries and regions around the world, including Europe and Asia.
Linear Capital was the co-lead investor in the angel round of Unbounded Dynamics and made additional oversubscribed investments in subsequent rounds.
Unbounded Dynamics has received continuous investment from leading financial and strategic capitals within half a year, which reflects the high recognition of the capital market for its R & D and commercialization progress of the general embodied brain. The funds obtained will be used to accelerate the R & D of the general embodied brain under the "native world model + reinforcement learning" technical paradigm and the construction of technical infrastructure such as efficient data pipelines.
The Native Physical World General Brain: Achieving Exponential Autonomous Evolution of Physical Intelligence
Different from the commonly used VLA architecture in the industry, Unbounded Dynamics chose to build an embodied general brain - MWA™ - that is native to the physical world and fully pre - trained, with the latent space world model as the core and combined with reinforcement learning.
MWA™ completes the unified representation, training, and inference closed - loop of multi - modal information in the latent space, breaking through the shallow limitations of traditional visual perception. It enables the embodied intelligent brain to deconstruct the underlying logic of the real world, recognize the physical laws and causal relationships of the objective world, and fundamentally avoids the problems of information attenuation and feature fragmentation caused by the cross - representation mapping between language and actions in the VLA paradigm. At the same time, it abandons the high computing power consumption and excessive noise caused by the redundant pixel - level prediction of the WAM/VAM world model, and uses a lightweight and energy - efficient algorithm architecture to build the core capabilities of the robot for physical world cognition and future state prediction. Reinforcement learning continuously iterates and optimizes decision - making strategies through autonomous interaction with the dynamic environment, constructing a complete and realistic value decision - making system. The two are deeply coupled, operate in a closed - loop and collaborative manner, and run autonomously and efficiently, jointly driving the embodied intelligent brain to achieve a leap in capabilities and realizing exponential iterative evolution of the intelligence level.
Xia Zhongpu, the co - founder and co - CTO, is one of the earliest researchers of world models and reinforcement learning in China, with more than 15 years of profound experience. At the same time, as the creator of China's first end - to - end intelligent driving system, he has extremely scarce systematic engineering capabilities for complex AI software and hardware systems. Xia Zhongpu and his team will accelerate the R & D and application of the native world model + reinforcement learning technology in embodied intelligence based on these experience accumulations and continuous innovation capabilities.
The First Hundred - Million - Level International Order for Embodied Manipulation Intelligence: Building Global Intelligent Infrastructure
While making strategic investments, Envision also reached a comprehensive strategic cooperation with Unbounded Dynamics for the global market, signing a cooperation agreement worth over 500 million yuan for large - scale global deployment and joint R & D in overseas markets, covering multiple countries and regions in Europe and Asia, and involving the intelligent upgrading of core businesses such as wind, solar, and energy storage and in - depth collaboration in scenarios such as AIDC (AI Data Center). In this cooperation, the two parties will focus on mobile manipulation scenarios with high generalization requirements, involving long - range and complex multi - step tasks, and build an embodied intelligent software and hardware system that meets global standards such as those of the EU, accelerating large - scale deployment and safe and stable operation in real - world scenarios in major global markets.
As a globally leading green technology enterprise, Envision has multiple innovative practices in fields such as intelligent wind turbines, energy storage systems, new AI power systems, green hydrogen, and zero - carbon industrial parks. Envision has won multiple international honors such as being named one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by Time magazine in 2024, thanks to its outstanding market and technological influence globally.
The strategic cooperation between Unbounded Dynamics and Envision Technology aims to jointly lead the organic integration of embodied intelligence and the energy system, and build an overall solution of "super intelligence + super energy". Relying on a wide - ranging global market service network, they will accelerate the transformation of embodied intelligent technology and the clean energy system into intelligent infrastructure that is widespread globally and capable of autonomous evolution. At the same time, Envision also provides customized power and power system solutions for Unbounded Dynamics' embodied intelligence, further enhancing the robot's endurance and operation reliability in complex industrial scenarios, and accelerating large - scale implementation and safe and stable operation in real - world scenarios in major global markets.
Unbounded Dynamics' K15 robot has entered Envision's operation scenarios
Based in China and serving the world. Unbounded Dynamics has reached strategic cooperation with leading global automotive industry chain enterprises such as ZF LIFETEC and Omove Group. Its robots have entered real production lines for evolution and iteration and have been reported by CCTV's News Broadcast. In addition, Unbounded Dynamics has also cooperated with an internationally well - known chain coffee brand in the overseas market, breaking through the generalization technology challenges of spatial intelligence and long - range reasoning in open scenarios, promoting the implementation and application of the new - generation technology dividend and realizing broader commercial value. From single - point verification to global large - scale delivery, Unbounded Dynamics' internationalization strategy is accelerating its in - depth layout and implementation.
Zhang Yufeng, the founder and CEO of Unbounded Dynamics, said: The core of embodied intelligence is to enable robots to truly understand and master the laws of the physical world and acquire the ability of autonomous learning and evolution. Around this goal, Unbounded Dynamics has achieved breakthroughs in key technologies such as the native world model and reinforcement learning, and built infrastructure such as efficient data pipelines to create system - level capabilities. Globally, embodied intelligence has become a track with broad demand and long - term prospects. Unbounded Dynamics is committed to becoming a global leader in embodied intelligence and, together with partners such as Envision, creating an intelligent ecosystem where robots and humans co - evolve and jointly create a sustainable future.
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