Nearly 3.5 billion yuan in total, two embodied AI companies that appeared on the Spring Festival Gala announced new financing on the same day.

The embodied intelligence track continues to heat up, and two more companies have officially announced new rounds of financing, with a total financing amount of nearly 3.5 billion yuan.

On March 2nd, Galaxy Universal Robotics announced that it had recently completed a new round of financing worth 2.5 billion yuan. The investors include the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Sinopec, CITIC Investment Holdings, BOC Assets, SAIC Financial Holdings, SMIC Juyuan, Yizhuang State - owned Investment, Kunpeng Fund, Wuxi Venture Capital, Fujian Industrial Investment, Chengdu Science and Technology Innovation Investment, etc. Many old shareholders continued to increase their investments.

Galaxy Universal said that after this round of financing, its cumulative financing amount ranks first in China's embodied intelligence field, further consolidating its leading position as the highest - valued unlisted enterprise in the humanoid robot field.

Jiemian News learned from Tianyancha that before this round of financing, Galaxy Universal had completed a total of five rounds of financing, including the seed round, angel round, Series A, Series B, and Series B+ rounds. The previous round of financing took place at the end of last year, when Galaxy Universal announced the completion of a financing round exceeding 300 million US dollars. At that time, according to media reports, people close to Galaxy Universal revealed that the cumulative financing amount of Galaxy Universal Robotics was about 800 million US dollars (equivalent to more than 5 billion yuan), and its valuation reached 3 billion US dollars (equivalent to more than 20 billion yuan).

Galaxy Universal was founded by Wang He, a researcher at Peking University and a Boya Young Scholar. Wang He graduated from Stanford University and studied under Professor Leonidas J. Guibas, an international master in computer vision. He is one of the earliest scholars in the world to conduct end - to - end embodied large - model research. After returning to China, he founded the first academic laboratory in China focusing on embodied intelligence. The core team of Galaxy Universal brings together AI and robotics experts from universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Stanford, and Beihang University.

In the industrial manufacturing field, Galaxy Universal has obtained cooperation from enterprises such as CATL, Bosch Germany, Toyota Motor, BAIC Group, and SAIC Group, with a cumulative order volume of thousands of units.

On the same day that Galaxy Universal officially announced its new round of financing, Songyan Power announced the completion of its Series B financing. This round of financing was led by Chendao Capital, an industrial investment platform affiliated with CATL, and followed by well - known institutions such as Guoke Investment, Jingguosheng Fund, and Jiuhe Venture Capital. The total scale of the Series B financing was nearly 1 billion yuan.

It is understood that Songyan Power, founded in 2023, has completed a total of 9 rounds of financing. The founder of the company is Jiang Zheyuan. Public information shows that Jiang Zheyuan was admitted to the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University with the 28th place in Beijing. He dropped out of school to start a business during his doctoral studies in 2023. In September of the same year, he founded Songyan Power, focusing on the R & D of humanoid robot and embodied intelligence technologies. The management and technical teams of Songyan Power are mainly composed of post - 95s, and the company has formulated a technical route driven by "biped + bionic" dual lines.

It is worth noting that both of the above - mentioned embodied intelligence companies participated in the performance of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Horse. Among them, Galaxy Universal Robotics was designated by China Media Group as the "Designated Embodied Large - Model Robot for the 2026 Spring Festival Gala". This is the first time that working robots have appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage. In the program, the robots completed tasks such as playing with walnuts, picking up glass fragments, accurately retrieving items from the shelves, folding clothes, and skewering grilled sausages beside the actors Shen Teng and Ma Li.

Songyan Power was the humanoid robot partner for China Media Group's "2026 Spring Festival Gala". Four bipedal humanoid robots and one bionic humanoid robot under its banner cooperated with the actress Cai Ming to complete a 12 - and - a - half - minute sketch. This is also the first time that humanoid robots have appeared in a language program on the Spring Festival Gala.

After the start of the Year of the Horse, embodied intelligence enterprises have continuously received financing. On February 23rd, Zhipingfang announced the completion of its Series B financing, with a financing scale exceeding 1 billion yuan, and the company's valuation officially exceeded 10 billion yuan. Just one day later, Qianxun Intelligence announced that it had recently completed two consecutive rounds of financing totaling nearly 2 billion yuan. With the implementation of the financing, Qianxun Intelligence's valuation exceeded the 10 - billion - yuan mark at one go, becoming another 10 - billion - yuan unicorn in the embodied intelligence field.

The year 2026 is considered a crucial year for the commercialization of humanoid robots. Capital is concentrating on well - known leading enterprises, and the industry has fully shifted from concept competition to competition in mass production and delivery.

This article is from Jiemian News, author: Chen Xiaotong, published by 36Kr with authorization.