36Kr Going Global Exclusive | From Singapore's National Day to Construction Sites in Europe and the United States, Paitena Robotics Completes Two Rounds of Financing Totaling Nearly 100 Million Yuan
Partner Robotics recently announced the completion of tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing. This round of financing was led by Huachuang Capital, with additional investments from existing shareholders Tongchuang Weiye and Redpoint Ventures. Index Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor. Including the angel round completed at the end of 2024, the cumulative financing from the two rounds is nearly 100 million yuan.
Partner Robotics was founded in 2023 by Wang Kecheng, the former CEO of Bright Dream Robotics, which was once known as the cradle of Chinese construction robots. The company's core team has long been deeply involved in the field of construction robots and overseas expansion. This round of financing will be mainly used for:
1. Iterative R & D and commercial implementation of the core technologies and products of embodied intelligence for robots in construction scenarios, continuously meeting the differentiated needs of the global core markets;
2. Increasing investment in market development at home and abroad, such as expanding the agent system, improving service networks, strengthening market promotion and brand building;
3. Increasing investment in the core supply chain to ensure the quality, speed of supply and optimization of the supply chain.
The "dangerous, complex, dirty and heavy" working environment urgently needs the intervention of embodied intelligence, and the construction industry is a highly representative field with a huge market scale. With the rapid development of embodied intelligence technology for robots and the continuous decline in the cost of core components, and at the same time, the global construction industry generally faces a shortage of labor and rising labor costs, which accelerates the process of construction robots moving from the laboratory to the construction site, and initiates the industrialization and commercialization process.
The application scenario chain of construction robots is very long and involves many links. Partner Robotics currently focuses on niche markets and has two main products: the floor tile laying robot and the intelligent line marking robot. In the future, the company will gradually expand its product line based on the principle of "high value + feasibility". The long - term goal is to become the leader of embodied intelligence robots in the entire life cycle of construction scenarios.
The demand for floor tile laying is huge, with the global annual tile consumption exceeding 10 billion square meters. However, traditional manual tile laying is inefficient, the laying quality is unstable, the labor intensity is high, and the labor cost is also rising. Through the control of laying technology and parameters, Partner's floor tile laying robot can ensure stable construction quality and a low hollowing rate; the construction efficiency can reach 5 - 6 times that of manual labor.
Taking the US market as an example, the average daily labor cost of tile layers in the United States is about several hundred dollars. If Partner's floor tile laying robot is used, the investment can be recovered in about six months.
Partner's floor tile laying robot P900
The line marking robot has strong versatility and runs through multiple links such as construction, structure and decoration. It is the basis for ensuring construction quality and accuracy. The comprehensive construction efficiency of Partner's intelligent line marking robot can be about 4 - 6 times higher than that of traditional manual work; the robot can perform automatic line marking with an accuracy of ±2 mm and a line marking coverage rate of 100%.
In terms of technology, at the "brain" level of the robot, Partner's team has independently developed multi - sensor fusion environmental perception technology and a virtual simulation training cloud platform. By continuously collecting and training a large amount of data in real construction scenarios, the robot's capabilities are improved; at the "cerebellum" level, Partner's robots have several key technologies leading the industry, including a unified control model of vision and movement in construction scenarios, high - load collaborative robotic arms, high - precision optical measurement sensors, etc.
Since officially developing the overseas market in the middle of this year, the company has received orders worth more than 10 million yuan. Deliveries have started in multiple overseas markets, and the actual floor tile laying area completed by the floor tile laying robot has reached nearly 100,000 square meters. Construction robots currently have more advantages in countries and regions with a larger labor gap and higher payment ability. Therefore, Partner Robotics' main markets are overseas, including Europe, North America, the Middle East, etc., and it also has sales in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.
For the overseas market, construction robots first need to meet many technical and standard differences. There are technological differences in floor tile laying in different markets, and there are also different requirements for construction accuracy and materials. For example, the ground accuracy varies in different markets, the properties and bonding requirements of materials are different, and the types and sizes of tiles also vary greatly.
In response to these differences, Partner's products use visual AI technology, which can achieve compatible laying effects for tiles of different colors, patterns and sizes, enabling the robot to complete tile - laying tasks stably and accurately under different regional and technological conditions, and providing professional solutions for the world's major markets. In addition to economic and practical requirements such as quality and efficiency, the reliability of construction robots, as well as sales channels and after - sales services, are also important factors considered by customers. The company has developed agency channels in countries and regions such as Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Singapore to ensure that customers can receive timely pre - sales and after - sales services.
At the same time, Wang Kecheng introduced an application case of Partner's automatic line marking robot overseas: For the 60th National Day celebration of Singapore in 2025, a large and complex pattern with an area of more than 100 meters × 80 meters needed to be drawn on the parade square. Manual drawing was extremely difficult, so a robot capable of automatic line marking was required. The project team evaluated products from international brands such as HP and Hitachi and finally chose Partner's intelligent line marking robot. Partner conducted a large number of tests in China to verify the stability and reliability of the robot in various complex environments such as rain and humidity. During the actual construction, Partner's robot completed the drawing work that was originally planned to take several days in only five hours, reducing the labor intensity and error rate of subsequent manual coloring on the site, and was highly praised by the project team.
Working scenario of Partner's intelligent line marking robot
Final presentation effect of the ground at the Singapore National Day celebration venue
Wang Kecheng observed that, different from the early days of the industry, which were mainly focused on laboratory demonstrations and demos, since 2024, more and more construction robots have been actually used for on - site construction and delivery; secondly, the usability of many construction robots has been significantly improved, and construction practitioners can directly operate and apply them without relying on long - term guidance or training from manufacturers.
Behind this change is the continuous deepening of the matching between products and market demand. Wang Kecheng said that start - up companies need to seek the unity of technology, products, market and capital to ensure that products can truly solve the pain points of construction and be widely accepted by the market. As the market matching degree improves, the actual utilization rate of construction robots on construction sites will show an accelerating upward trend, marking that construction robots are accelerating from the experimental and demo stages to real commercial implementation and market penetration.
Chen Huan, a partner at Huachuang Capital, said that the intelligent upgrading of the construction industry is an inevitable trend. Partner has entered the market through the highly in - demand floor tile laying scenario, with both technological depth and implementation capabilities. Its products have achieved commercial verification in both domestic and overseas markets. Wang Kecheng, the founder of Partner, once led Bright Dream Robotics and delivered thousands of construction robots, showing a deep understanding of construction industry scenarios. We are optimistic about this team with both technological innovation and commercial implementation genes, which can transform embodied intelligence into real productivity and lead the development of "AI + construction industry".
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