ZhiYuan has invested in a startup company focusing on companion robots.

He earned $4 million by selling software at the age of 17 and secured tens of millions in financing for building high - EQ robots.

Robot Outlook reported on November 11th. Yesterday, DreamTech announced the successful completion of multiple rounds of tens of millions of yuan in financing. The investors include well - known institutions such as Hillhouse Ventures, Zhipu Robotics, and Houxue Capital. Gaohe Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor. The funds from this round will be mainly used for the product R & D and team building of the XDream series of companion robots.

DreamTech was established in Shanghai in September 2025, focusing on creating intelligent agents with a "sense of life". Its first product can be adapted for use in multiple indoor and outdoor scenarios. It has high emotional intelligence and weak language interaction capabilities. Without complex instructions, it can naturally perceive and understand the user's emotions and has the ability of "active thinking", being able to learn and grow like a living organism.

To enable the robot to achieve 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 reasoning. Through an architecture that simulates the information processing process of the human brain, this system maps the data received by the robot to "fast brain/slow brain" hierarchical and sequential memory: the fast brain is responsible for instinctive reflexes and immediate feedback, while the slow brain undertakes reasoning and weighing. After superimposing the robot's own personality, emotions, and memory, it forms more human - like behavioral manifestations.

The founder of the company, Li Lintian, has rich entrepreneurial experience. In 2008, when Li Lintian was 17 years old and still in his sophomore year of high school, the "Ranlin Accelerator" software developed by his team gained 200,000 users and was later acquired by Oracle for $4 million. After passing the high - school graduation exam, Li Lintian did not take the college entrance examination and was invited to participate in a confidential project of Oracle, leading his team to the United States.

In 2018, Li Lintian founded "Hurricane Mobility" in Shanghai, which mainly provides one - stop services such as luxury car rental and sales. The company received tens of millions of yuan in angel - round financing from Inno Angel Fund and CMIG just two months after its establishment.

In 2023, Li Lintian founded Scrap Metal Robotic, positioning its product line as "robot + AI + IP" and launched the bionic robot WALL - E. This robot has the ability to capture, understand, and respond to emotions, can communicate with people in an anthropomorphic way, and can identify different users through natural language recognition, facial features, and voiceprint features, giving corresponding feedback.

Later, he also served as a partner in the innovation business of Lexiang Technology, leading the development of the emotion - interactive robot WAWA. Lexiang Technology is also a company that builds companion robots. Not long ago, it announced an official cooperation with Disney and obtained the official authorization of Disney's classic IP Wall - E. The Wall - E tracked robot it launched has the ability of automatic movement and supports three modes: remote control, motion recognition, and voice interaction.

Currently, XDream has completed the closed - loop of the cognitive architecture, and the prototype design has been implemented. It is expected to start testing in the first quarter of 2026, open product pre - sales in the third quarter, and enter the mass - production stage.

This article is from the WeChat official account "Robot Outlook". Author: Xu Lisi. It is published by 36Kr with authorization.