AI companion hardware company "Luobo Intelligence" has completed tens of millions of RMB in financing, led by Shanghai Film Group and GSR Ventures.

In May 2025, Robopoet, an AI emotional companionship hardware company, completed an angel - round financing of tens of millions of RMB. The financing was jointly led by Shanghai Film New Vision Fund and GSR Ventures, with Zero2IPO Ventures participating in the investment. Gaohe Capital served as the financial advisor for this round of financing.

Product Breakthrough

Robopoet was founded in 2024, focusing on AI - based collectible toys. Sun Zhaozhi, the founder of Robopoet, was the former head of product design at XPeng Robotics (XPeng Mobility). The team members mainly come from technology and collectible toy companies such as ByteDance, Alibaba, Huawei, DJI, SenseTime, and Pop Mart.

Robopoet's first product, "Fuzozo", was launched at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress on March 8, 2025, and officially entered the market for sales in June. Fuzozo is an AI - based collectible toy centered around large - model AI technology, dedicated to providing emotional companionship for Generation Z. It takes the form of a plush keychain, making it convenient to carry around. Through multi - modal interaction and pet - like nurturing gameplay, it builds long - term emotional bonds with users and alleviates feelings of loneliness and anxiety. Meanwhile, the product also features social gameplay, allowing users to make friends by "tapping" their devices together, facilitating rapid social expansion among young people in their social circles.

Technological Advantages

Sun Zhaozhi, the founder of Robopoet, believes that currently, Generation Z has high expectations for AI emotional companionship products, but there is no product on the market that can truly meet their needs. He thinks that the core ability of AI emotional companionship products is not "conversation" but "nurturing". Therefore, Robopoet has invested a large amount of resources in product design and R & D to build the two most core capabilities of "nurturing - style" AI collectible toys: "personality evolution" and "long - term memory".

Robopoet's self - developed multi - modal emotion model "MEM" (Multi - Emotion Model) cultivates the intimacy between users and Fuzozo through daily interactive companionship, and nurtures Fuzozo's diverse personalities, enabling each Fuzozo to form a unique and exclusive bond with its user.

Another core technology of Robopoet, the "EchoChain Bionic Memory System", endows Fuzozo with the ability of long - term memory and learning. It can remember the user's identity, characteristics, preferences, events, etc., and reflect on the memories through self - learning ability, gradually growing into a more understanding and in - sync companion for the user.

Investors' Views

Gu Yuhao, General Manager of Shanghai Film New Vision Fund:

"In the era of the accelerated development of AI hardware, Robopoet has demonstrated extremely sharp market insight, rapid product iteration, and execution capabilities. It has accurately captured the emotional companionship needs of Generation Z and created AI - based collectible toys. The company has solid technological accumulation in multi - modal algorithms, interaction design, and hardware engineering, and also has strong integration capabilities in the supply chain, market channels, and brand marketing. Notably, the Robopoet team has a profound understanding of IP creation and user psychology, and can organically integrate AI technology with interesting gameplay.

As a 'culture + technology' industry fund initiated by Shanghai Film Co., Ltd., Shanghai Film New Vision Fund focuses on investment opportunities in 'IP - empowered cultural industries' and 'technology - empowered cultural industries' and pays high attention to the development of the 'IP + AI' industry. We expect Robopoet to continue to bring breakthrough products to the market and are optimistic about the company's future cross - border co - branding opportunities with many IPs such as Shanghai Animation Film Studio. We believe that IP value, brand operation, and user stickiness can build barriers and help Robopoet become a leader in the Chinese AI companionship hardware market."

Zhu Xiaohu, Managing Partner of GSR Ventures:

"Creating 'emotional value' with AI is a reliable direction in the field of large - model applications today. In this direction, Robopoet's market entry strategy is very precise. Its product plan is very attractive to the target user group, its technical plan can be implemented quickly, and there is also long - term room for imagination.

Robopoet is a team originating from the fields of embodied intelligence and large - scale base models. However, the founding team has chosen a more commercially - oriented entrepreneurial direction. They have keenly perceived the commercial opportunities brought by new technologies in their professional fields and have unhesitatingly plunged into them. We believe that this is an experienced team following the underlying business logic and steadily creating products that are truly needed in the market. Therefore, we are very glad to invest in Robopoet."

Yu Lu (Grace), Partner of Zero2IPO Ventures:

"We are very glad to invest in Robopoet. The accelerated integration of AI and smart hardware has brought about a huge transformation in the field of companion collectible toys. With profound scenario insight and excellent product definition ability, the company has rapidly iterated in a short period of time and found a product form that combines the attributes of collectible toys and AI companionship capabilities. Meanwhile, the Robopoet team has strong product design capabilities, user - centric operation thinking, and in - depth knowledge of large - model technology, and has obvious advantages in scenarios with strong interaction and high - end experience.

We believe that the market for AI - based companion collectible toys has a large base and is growing rapidly. Consumers have a high acceptance of AI products and they are naturally suitable for social dissemination. Innovative teams have great potential in this field. We look forward to the Robopoet team continuing to bring innovative products to the market and achieving long - term commercial success in the domestic and international AI - based companion collectible toy markets."

After this round of financing, Robopoet will continue to build a complete ecological matrix around the Fuzozo series, including deepening its core AI capabilities, expanding online and offline channels, increasing brand awareness, and launching a series of new products such as co - branded IP products, aiming to create a phenomenon - level new category in the field of AI hardware.