ZhiYuan hat in ein Start-up für Begleitroboter investiert.

At the age of 17, he earned 4 million US dollars from software sales and received several million dollars in financing for the production of high - emotional - intelligent robots.

Robotics Outlook reported on November 11th. Yesterday, the company Chi Meng Technology announced that it has completed several consecutive financing rounds worth several million yuan. The investors include well - known institutions such as Hillhouse Capital, Zhipu Robotics and Houxue Capital. Gaohe Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor. The capital from this round will mainly be used for the product development and team building of the XDream - series companion robots.

Chi Meng Technology was founded in Shanghai in September 2025 and focuses on creating intelligent agents with a "sense of life". Its first product can be used both indoors and outdoors in various scenarios. It has high emotional intelligence and simple voice interaction. Without complicated commands, it can naturally perceive and understand the users' emotions and has the ability to "think independently". It can learn and grow like a living being.

To endow the robot with such high emotional intelligence, XDream has built a "Digital Brain" - cognitive system based on the information - processing mechanism of the human brain in perception, memory and inference. This system classifies the data received by the robot into the "Fast Brain/Slow Brain" layering and temporal memory structure by simulating the architecture of the human brain's information - processing process. The fast brain is responsible for instinctive reactions and immediate feedback, while the slow brain takes over inference and deliberation. After overlaying the robot's own character, emotions and memory, more human - like behaviors emerge.

The founder of the company, Li Lintian, has rich startup experience: In 2008, when he was still in the 11th grade, Li Lintian led a team in developing the software "Ranlin Accelerator", which won 200,000 users and was later acquired by Oracle Corporation for 4 million US dollars. After graduating from high school, Li Lintian did not take the college entrance examination but was invited by Oracle to a secret project and led his team to the United States.

In 2018, Li Lintian founded "Hurricane Mobility" in Shanghai, which mainly offers one - stop services such as leasing and selling luxury cars. Two months after its founding, the company received a million - dollar angel round from Inno Angel Fund and CMIG.

In 2023, Li Lintian founded Scrap Metal Robotic and positioned its product strategy as "Robot + AI + IP". It launched the bionic robot WALL - E on the market. This robot can detect, understand and react to emotions. It can communicate like a human, recognizes different users through natural language recognition, facial features and voice tone analysis and gives corresponding feedback.

Later, he also worked as a partner for innovative businesses at LeXiang Technology and led the development of the emotion - interaction robot WAWA. LeXiang Technology is also a company that manufactures companion robots. Recently, it announced that it has officially partnered with Disney and obtained the official license for the classic Disney IP WALL - E. The WALL - E crawler robot developed by it has the ability of autonomous movement and supports three modes: remote control, motion recognition and voice interaction.

Currently, XDream has completed the closed - loop of the cognitive architecture and implemented the prototype design. It is expected that the tests will start in the first quarter of 2026, and the pre - sales and mass production will start in the third quarter.

This article is from the WeChat account "Robotics Outlook". Author: Xu Lisi. Published by 36Kr with permission.