Led by a former vice president of Alibaba, an embodied intelligence company that has been established for less than three years has raised nearly 1 billion yuan in financing.

The hot money for embodied intelligence has finally started to concentrate on leading players.

On August 14, embodied brain company INFIFORCE announced the completion of its Series A and Series A+ financing, with a total amount of nearly 1 billion RMB. This round is led by Dunhong Asset and leading state-owned capital platforms, followed by industrial and social capital including Zhejiang University Science and Innovation Group, Yandu State-owned Control, and Lishui State-owned Capital Company, with old shareholder CreationVenture CCV continuing to increase its investment.

From the angel round in 2024 to the Pre-A round in 2025, and now the two rounds of total financing of nearly 1 billion RMB, INFIFORCE, which was established less than three years ago, has achieved three leaps in financing scale.

The funds are in place, and the expenditure plan has been finalized.

The funds from this round will be mainly invested in three directions: the R&D of AtomBrain (the embodied brain) and the causal world model, the continuous upgrading of the full-stack AI Infra DataGrid, and the large-scale delivery and verification of multi-form robot bodies in real industrial scenarios.

The company also disclosed that it will soon release an embodied model centered on high-quality Ego data, further opening up the technical closed loop of Ego native data, world model and embodied brain. This is also the core bet of INFIFORCE: to enable robots not only to perform mechanical operations, but also to understand the causal logic of "action, state, result" in the physical world, so as to reason and handle unexpected situations.

The courage to bet on the embodied brain track comes from the strong strength of the team.

Bai Huiyuan, Founder and CEO, is a former Vice President of Alibaba. She worked at Alibaba for more than 15 years, leading the scale-up growth of businesses worth tens of billions to hundreds of billions of RMB from 0 to 1, and founded INFIFORCE after leaving Alibaba.

The technical team is also extremely competitive: Wang Yizhou, CTO, is a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, one of the first core members of Baidu IDL's autonomous driving team, and a core member of NVIDIA DriveAV, with more than 10 years of experience in autonomous driving algorithm R&D and mass production; Chen Jiayu, Chief Scientist, got her bachelor's degree from Peking University, PhD from Purdue University, and postdoctoral experience at CMU, and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. After joining the company, she has led the team to produce more than ten top scientific research achievements.

Liu Yang, Co-founder, is a master's degree holder from Beihang University and a serial entrepreneur, who has previously worked at Tencent, Baidu and Disney. More than 75% of the core R&D team hold master's or doctoral degrees, and the team owns more than 100 patents and software copyrights in total.

With solid technology as the foundation, the product matrix has expanded rapidly.

Around the unified embodied brain AtomBrain, the company has built three product lines for dedicated, general-purpose and humanoid robots, including the AstroDroid wheeled humanoid robot, UltraDroid multi-form general-purpose robot, Xiaoyuanzi biped robot and the FORCE series of dedicated robots. In terms of technical path, the company has focused on the first-person perspective (Ego-Centric) data path since 2025 — robots learn not "how others do it", but "what I see, and what results will be produced after I take actions". The industry generally believes that first-person data has the advantages of large scale, rich scenarios and controllable collection cost, which is a more realistic path for the independent evolution of robots.

Up to now, INFIFORCE has promoted landing verification and commercialization in more than 30 cities and more than 100 real scenarios across China, covering commercial services, warehousing and logistics, industrial manufacturing and other fields. It also achieved outstanding performance on the international stage: at the official core forum of CES 2026, Bai Huiyuan, as the invited Chinese entrepreneur in the embodied intelligence sector, pointed out the core pain point of the industry that "the robot body has taken shape, but the intelligence capability is missing".

The acceleration of one company is backed by the warming up of the entire track.

According to statistics from IT Juzi, as of July 30, 195 financing deals have been completed in the embodied model sub-sector alone within this year, covering 108 enterprises, with the total financing amount reaching 754.63 billion RMB; the financing scale of the first 7 months has exceeded 4 times of the total amount in 2025. The capitalization process is also accelerating simultaneously, and about 50 domestic enterprises related to embodied intelligence have entered the IPO tutoring or declaration stage. The track is no longer in the early unregulated stage of simply competing for financing, and the three lines of financing, commercialization and capitalization are developing in parallel.

1 billion RMB is the admission ticket, not a safe haven.

For INFIFORCE, the real test in the next step is to convert the raised funds into technical barriers, stable product delivery and continuously growing revenue, which is a challenge that all players in this track are working on.