Independent Variable Robotics Completes Nearly RMB 2 Billion Series B Financing Led by Xiaomi Strategic Investment and HSG | Exclusive Report from Intelligence Emergence

Text by | Qiu Xiaofen

Edited by | Su Jianxun

According to exclusive information obtained by "Intelligent Emergence", Independent Variable Robotics completed a nearly 2 billion yuan Series B financing between the end of March and the beginning of April. The leading investors are Xiaomi Strategic Investment and Sequoia China.

Not long ago, Meituan, Alibaba, and ByteDance respectively led or solely invested in Independent Variable Robotics in Series A, Series A+, and Series A++ rounds. As of now, Independent Variable has become the only domestic embodied intelligence enterprise invested in by four major Internet companies.

Independent Variable has not responded to this yet.

Xiaomi Strategic Investment has made moves in the field of embodied intelligent robots. Public investment projects in the past two years include Weiti Robotics (tactile sensing), Xinuo Future (dexterous hands), Robo Party (robot body), and Octopus Power (model).

In addition to its external investment layout, Xiaomi's own robot products are also advancing rapidly. Not long ago, in April 2026, Xiaomi's robot CyberOne entered Xiaomi's automobile factory for real - production - line internship. The core goal is to run through the flexible assembly process in automobile manufacturing.

In terms of models, in February 2026, Xiaomi also open - sourced the Vision - Language - Action (VLA) model Xiaomi - Robotics - 0.

An insider analyzed to "Intelligent Emergence" that different from the industry's choice of "fine - tuning open - source models", Independent Variable is one of the very few domestic companies that insist on fully self - developed embodied intelligence basic models and has always adhered to the end - to - end approach.

Specifically, in its self - developed "WALL - A" model, Independent Variable maps visual, language, tactile, and action signals into a continuous high - dimensional Token sequence. These unified languages will be put into a single Transformer architecture to achieve multi - modal joint input and synchronous output.

Wang Hao, the co - founder and CTO of Independent Variable, said in an interview with "Intelligent Emergence" at the end of last year that this native multi - modal unified representation method helps reduce the information loss problem during cross - modal transmission. It not only enables the robot to directly perceive the physical world but also ensures that the robot can synchronously perform perception, decision - making, and operation in a dynamic environment.

"The problem with the 'fine - tuning' approach is that once the upstream stops open - sourcing or the basic model capabilities make a leap, it may lead to the subversion of all fine - tuning work and the inability to form a data closed - loop and scale effect," Wang Hao said.

The end - to - end unified architecture will lay the foundation for the scaling up of the embodied basic model. In the future, with a significant increase in the parameter scale and high - quality interaction data, the generalization ability of the model, especially zero - shot generalization, will be further enhanced.

In addition to the basic technology layout, Independent Variable has also advanced rapidly in commercialization since this year.

In March 2026, Independent Variable cooperated with 58 Daojia to launch the first commercial cleaning service with robots entering households, introducing embodied intelligence technology into civilian household scenarios on a large scale. Recently, this service will be launched in different cities respectively.

In the future, relying on 58 Daojia's "digital household scenario library" covering the whole country, the basic model iteration of Independent Variable will obtain real and diverse data sources, forming a data flywheel effect of "training upon implementation".

According to "Intelligent Emergence", in addition to the household service scenario, Independent Variable Robotics will also enter industrial manufacturing, logistics, and elderly care scenarios in the future, promoting the implementation of embodied intelligence technology in real - world scenarios.

end