Yushan Intelligence Secures Another Pre-A+ Round of Financing to Accelerate the Arrival of the Robotic Kitchen Era

An embodied robot company that uses robots to "replicate" and "surpass" human chefs has once again won the favor of capital. Recently, Shenzhen Imperial Cuisine Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. completed a new round of rapid financing. After previously completing a Pre - A round of financing worth tens of millions of yuan, the company secured another Pre - A+ round of financing.

This round of financing was jointly led by Bick Venture Capital and Bick Internet, and South China Institute of Industrial Technology, Zhejiang University participated by contributing scientific and technological achievements. The rapid completion of consecutive financings fully demonstrates the capital market's high recognition of Imperial Cuisine Intelligent's disruptive technological achievements and its commercial potential. As a core achievement, Imperial Cuisine Intelligent has launched the industry's first fully automatic AI cooking robot based on a small six - axis linkage mechanical arm, achieving a revolutionary leap in cooking from human experience to data - driven execution.

Currently, the product has been successfully applied in diverse scenarios, fully verifying its mature business model in large - scale operations, standardized production, and cost control. By continuously optimizing the in - depth integration of the large AI model and the robot control system, the company has further strengthened its systematic advantages in the field of intelligent cooking, laying a solid technological and operational foundation for expanding into a wider range of people's livelihood scenarios and industry ecosystems, and truly opening a new era of large - scale commercial implementation of robot - based catering.

Industry Recognition: Winning Awards and Gaining Authority's Affirmation for Innovation Capability

Since 2025, Imperial Cuisine Intelligent has won multiple national, provincial, and industry - level heavyweight awards due to its technological breakthroughs and commercialization achievements in the digital catering field. At the 8th American Chinese Cuisine International Forum in Chicago, North America, the company won the "Outstanding Award for Promoting Chinese Food Culture Globally"; at the Bay Area New - Quality Productivity Ecosystem Conference, it was awarded the "Excellence in Innovation Enterprise Award"; in the Intelligent Robot Cooking Competition hosted by the China Cuisine Association, it was the only company to win the Gold Award, the Best Design Award, and the Popularity Champion Award simultaneously.

In addition, the company was also included in the "Top 100 Rising Stars in the Bay Area" at the Guangdong - Hong Kong - Macao Science and Technology Innovation Conference and was awarded the "AI Pegasus High - Growth Enterprise" at the Guangdong - Hong Kong - Macao Greater Bay Area AI Leaders Summit. These honors, endorsed by the human resources and social security department, the science and technology department, and authoritative media, are not only a strong recognition of the company's technological innovation and industrial implementation capabilities but also further confirm its long - term value and growth potential in the capital market.

Strategic Focus: In - depth Integration to Build a New Intelligent Catering Ecosystem

The funds from this round of financing for Imperial Cuisine Intelligent will be mainly used to promote the in - depth integration of the fully automatic AI cooking robot with the real economy, specifically in the following directions:

Expand Solutions for Diverse Scenarios: Based on the existing scenarios such as chain restaurants, hotels, government and enterprise canteens, schools, and communities, strategically enter broader people's livelihood service fields such as big health (elderly care, medical care), cultural and sports tourism (cultural and tourism, large - scale events), and special environment support (such as group camps, marine facilities), and provide customized digital kitchen overall solutions;

Strengthen Technological Collaboration and System Upgrade: Continuously invest in the research and development of the next - generation embodied intelligent cooking robot, deepen the collaboration ability between the robot and cloud computing power, and build a safer, more efficient, and scalable intelligent cooking system;

Build an Open and Win - win Industry Ecosystem: By integrating embodied intelligence, the Internet of Things, and AI technologies, promote the platformization and ecologicalization of technology to help the catering industry achieve systematic digital upgrading.

Industrial Collaboration: Joint R & D and Expansion of the Digital Catering Map

Bick Venture Capital and Bick Internet: As investors with a profound industrial background in the energy and intelligent fields, their joint investment this time reflects their high recognition of Imperial Cuisine Intelligent's "AI + Robot + Catering" model. Bick's accumulation in battery technology, the Internet of Things, and industrial chain resources will provide strategic support for Imperial Cuisine Intelligent in equipment energy optimization, intelligent collaboration, and market expansion.

South China Institute of Industrial Technology, Zhejiang University: As a top industry - academia - research platform of Zhejiang University in the Guangdong - Hong Kong - Macao Greater Bay Area, relying on the university's strong scientific research foundation and core advantages in achievement transformation, it has deeply cooperated with Shenzhen Imperial Cuisine Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. By contributing scientific and technological achievements as a cooperation link, they have successfully created a classic demonstration case for the transformation of university scientific research achievements. Based on the common vision of promoting industrial intelligence, Imperial Cuisine Intelligent and South China Institute of Zhejiang University jointly established the "Joint Innovation Center for AI Cooking Robots" in Guangzhou in July 2025. This center is dedicated to tackling key technologies and system integration, marking a new stage of collaborative research and development in the fields of embodied intelligence and digital catering. This industry - research integration platform will continuously drive product performance optimization and scenario implementation, and build an open and sustainable technological innovation ecosystem for Imperial Cuisine Intelligent.

The representative of the investors said: "Imperial Cuisine Intelligent has not only automated and digitized the entire cooking process but also shown a clear path to promote systematic changes in the catering industry. We look forward to redefining the operation mode of modern kitchens through the multi - dimensional empowerment of capital, technology, and industrial resources, and are willing to accompany and jointly promote the continuous evolution of the digital catering ecosystem in the long term."

Founder's Vision: Driving the Industry with Technology to Serve the People's Livelihood

Xie Junda, the founder and CEO of Imperial Cuisine Intelligent, said: "The success of consecutive financings is a recognition of the team's technological accumulation and commercialization ability, and it also gives us more confidence to advance the global digital kitchen vision. Next, the company will focus on three key areas:

Deepen Scenario Implementation: Focus on the pain points in the catering industry such as labor, efficiency, standardization, differentiation, and food safety, and promote the large - scale application of products in diverse scenarios;

Lead Technological Standards: Continuously invest in the core research and development of AI and robots, and participate in establishing future standards for the intelligent cooking industry;

Collaborate with Ecosystem Partners: Adhere to the concept of open collaboration and jointly build a reliable and sustainable digital catering ecosystem with upstream and downstream players in the industrial chain."

At the critical turning point when the catering industry is moving from the "experience era" to the "data era", Imperial Cuisine Intelligent is quietly reshaping the operating logic of the cooking industry with its fully automatic AI cooking robot. The completion of this round of financing not only injects momentum into technological breakthroughs and global layout but also means that a new value standard has been recognized: cooking can be accurately replicated; delicious food can be widely shared; and the future of catering can evolve efficiently and sustainably.

What Imperial Cuisine Intelligent is leading is not only a technological revolution in the kitchen but also a systematic industrial upgrade. It enables high - quality catering to break away from the absolute dependence on "master chefs", allows standardization and personalization to coexist, and ensures food safety throughout the data process from ingredients to the final product. Behind this is a technology company's solid contribution to improving social efficiency, reconstructing people's livelihood services, and promoting industry progress.