[Guangxiang Technology] Completes Seed-round Financing of Tens of Millions of Yuan, with Tsinghua-affiliated Industrial Embodied AI Upstart Leading Scenario Implementation | Light Source Incubation
Recently, Light Image (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Light Image Technology"), an embodied intelligence enterprise deeply incubated by 3i Industrial Innovation Incubator of Lighthouse Capital, officially announced its establishment and completed a seed - round financing of tens of millions of yuan. The company originated from the technology transfer projects of the School of Vehicle and Mobility, School of Artificial Intelligence, and the Institute of Artificial Intelligence Industry of Tsinghua University, the leading departments in China's automotive industry and artificial intelligence. It has also obtained official equity participation from Tsinghua University. Since its establishment, Light Image Technology has quickly gained high recognition from industrial capital, securing tens of millions of investment, fully demonstrating the market's high recognition of the technical strength and business prospects of this emerging embodied intelligence enterprise.
This round of financing was led by leading robot and manufacturing industry companies, with the participation of a well - known investment institution and Lighthouse Capital. The funds from this round of financing will be mainly used for the company's core technology R & D and productization of embodied robots. The company plans to first implement embodied intelligent agents in real and highly labor - intensive operation stations in automobile manufacturing to solve practical production pain points, and gradually expand to a wider range of industrial manufacturing scenarios based on this. Lighthouse Capital participated in the incubation and served as the exclusive financial advisor.
The Golden Combination of Scientists and R & D Elites Creates an "Elite Force" for Embodied Intelligence
The core team of Light Image Technology brings together top - notch scientists from Tsinghua University and industrialization elites from global technology giants such as Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, and Geek+ to form an "elite force for embodied intelligence" with both profound academic backgrounds and rich practical experience:
Driven by a Top - notch Academic Engine: Professor Li Shengbo, the co - founder and chief scientist, is an internationally renowned expert in the field of artificial intelligence. He has published more than 200 papers, which have been cited over 22,600 times. He has won 12 domestic and international academic best paper awards and has been selected as a highly cited Chinese scholar by Elsevier for four consecutive years. The reinforcement learning DSAC series of algorithms he led to develop have reached the world - leading level (SOTA), and he led the development of the first full - neural - network end - to - end autonomous driving system (IDrive) in China.
Ensured by Industrialization Strength: The industrialization team led by Zhang Tao, the founder and CEO, consists of technical executives from technology giants such as Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, and Geek+. They have successfully led the mass production and implementation of world - leading spatial perception and positioning technology in millions of vehicle - mounted terminals; completed the global delivery of 56,000 autonomous mobile robots; and achieved a ten - fold efficiency improvement in high - precision map lean production.
Supported by Full - Stack Technical Capabilities: 100% of the core technical team members hold doctoral degrees from top universities such as Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University, covering full - stack technical fields of embodied intelligence such as reinforcement learning, visual perception, and optimal control. They have remarkable technical achievements, including winning the international positioning competition championship for three consecutive years, winning the gold medal in the CVPR IMC Challenge, and topping the Argoverse dual - dataset list in autonomous driving.
Entering through Industrial Verticals and Gradually Moving towards General Embodied Intelligence
Strategic Origin (Why)
Since its establishment, Light Image Technology has targeted industrial scenarios as the strategic origin for the implementation of embodied intelligence. This choice stems from the team's in - depth insights: On the business side, there is a strong rigid demand for high - risk replacement and cost - reduction and efficiency - improvement in the industrial field, giving rise to a trillion - level incremental market. On the technical side, the relatively standardized industrial environment and tasks provide the best balance for the phased implementation of technology. On the competition side, the team's understanding of industrial vertical scenarios and professional capabilities form significant market barriers.
The company will start with the vertical scenario of automobile manufacturing. Relying on the team's deep accumulation in the automotive industry, it will create embodied intelligent agents that can truly relieve workers from heavy operations. On this basis, it will gradually expand horizontally to other manufacturing and industrial sectors, and ultimately build a general industrial embodied brain to fully support the intelligent upgrade of the industry.
Way to Break the Deadlock (How)
Light Image Technology believes that the core challenge for the actual implementation of embodied intelligence lies in the huge difference in the evolution rhythm of technology and products. On the one hand, the technology of embodied intelligence is iterating rapidly but is still in its early stage, with a high degree of uncertainty in the technical route. On the other hand, the implementation and application of products in the industrial field require long - term refinement. In response to this core contradiction, Light Image Technology has proposed a unique way to break the deadlock - the GOPS platform. By building an embodied intelligence development platform, the platform realizes the atomic encapsulation of technical capabilities and the unification of development paradigms, thus ensuring the orderly iteration and stable implementation of terminal products while the underlying technology continues to evolve.
Battlefield Verification (What)
Light Image Technology's GOPS platform is the world's first one - stop embodied intelligence system development platform centered on reinforcement learning and targeting industrial scenarios. It integrates a number of independently developed world - class technological achievements, including the reinforcement learning algorithm DSAC - T with industry - leading performance, the neural network training algorithm RAD, and the industry's first general neural network structure Smonet for industrial smooth control.
Relying on the powerful embodied intelligence model development capabilities of the GOPS platform, Light Image Technology has achieved application implementation in a wide range of industrial scenarios such as autonomous driving, warehousing and logistics, industrial manufacturing, and engineering operations. It has provided embodied intelligent robot products or intelligent system solutions for more than a dozen industry leading enterprises, fully verifying the practicality of its technology and the value of the platform.
The industrial investor said: "The team of Light Image Technology has extremely strong robot implementation capabilities and is highly strategically synergistic with us. We hope to work with Light Image Technology to promote the wide implementation of embodied robots in the industrial manufacturing field. We are optimistic about the team's underlying technical accumulation and engineering implementation capabilities, and will carry out in - depth strategic cooperation with Light Image Technology in areas such as robot mass production and sales to continuously empower its industrialization process."
Huang Xinxin, the person in charge of the 3i incubation business of Lighthouse Capital, pointed out: "The team of Light Image Technology has accumulated profound technical strength at Tsinghua University. They directly address the most focused scenario implementation issues in the embodied intelligence industry and have achieved a key breakthrough from core technology to industrialization in the automobile assembly process, becoming an important promoter of technological upgrading and intelligentization in the manufacturing industry. Lighthouse Capital will continue to deepen strategic cooperation with Light Image Technology to jointly help the Chinese embodied intelligent robot industry enter a new stage of full implementation."