Juweikeji Secures Hundreds of Millions in Four Rounds of Funding in Just Two Months, with an All-Star Team of Industrial Investors Making a Strong Entrance | Exclusive from 36Kr
36Kr learned that Hangzhou Juwei Technology Co., Ltd., a full - domain mobile intelligent robot company (hereinafter referred to as "Juwei Technology"), recently completed its A++++ round of financing. This round of financing was jointly led by Binzhou State - owned Investment, Weiqiao Group, and BinHua Co., Ltd., with Heda Holdings and Denuo Capital participating as follow - on investors. Among them, Binzhou State - owned Investment continued to increase its investment. The funds will be mainly used for the continuous in - depth R & D of core technologies, as well as the large - scale implementation and commercial promotion of special application scenarios across the country.
Juwei Technology was founded in Hangzhou in early 2025. It focuses on the R & D and application of wheeled quadruped robots, creating a "full - domain mobile intelligent agent" with all - terrain autonomous operation capabilities, and providing intelligent solutions for special scenarios such as strong magnetic fields, blasting, and extremely cold environments. Its products have advantages such as large load capacity and long endurance.
At the beginning of 2026, Juwei Technology completed 3 rounds of Series A financing in 30 consecutive days, continuously receiving investments from leading listed companies in the industry, state - owned industrial platforms, and market - oriented institutions. In the Series A financing, listed companies and professional investment institutions such as Zhengqiang Co., Ltd., Yilian Technology, and Luxin Venture Capital strategically entered the scene; in the Series A+ and A++ financings, high - quality industrial capital and state - owned capital such as Jianyuan Tianhua and Binzhou State - owned Investment successively made strategic investments. Including this A++++ round of financing, the total financing amount has reached hundreds of millions of yuan.
Wang Zixuan, the founder and CEO of Juwei Technology, said that Juwei Technology hopes to create a sustainable development model of "self - developed technology + supply chain binding + closed - loop implementation of scenarios" by integrating industrial resources from all parties, accelerating the large - scale and commercial implementation of embodied intelligent technology, and continuously consolidating its leading position in the industry.
As a Fortune Global 500 company in the energy and aluminum industries, Weiqiao Group has a prominent demand for special - purpose operating robots with anti - magnetic, anti - interference, and high - reliability features in its core industries such as electrolytic aluminum, which forms a natural industrial synergy with Juwei Technology's robot business. As a leading enterprise in the chemical industry, BinHua Co., Ltd.'s production scenarios are generally characterized by flammability, explosiveness, and strong corrosiveness, which can directly provide rich implementation applications for Juwei Technology's explosion - proof robots. Collaborating with Zhengqiang Co., Ltd. to develop the core hardware of robot joint modules and working deeply with Yilian Technology on the integrated matching of electrical connection components helps Juwei Technology to open up the underlying supply chain of embodied intelligent hardware.
Wang Zixuan has experience in consecutive successful entrepreneurship and the industry. He has led investments in projects such as Leapmotor and Sunwoda, founded a leading sodium - ion battery company, and completed the construction of production lines and the implementation of major orders. Li Qinchuan, the company's chief scientist, is a senior expert in the field of quadruped robots and enjoys the State Council's special allowance. Most of the core members of the R & D team come from domestic and foreign universities such as Stanford University, Zhejiang University, and Zhejiang Sci - Tech University.
1. Targeting Extreme Environment Positions "People Are Unwilling to Go To", Creating a Wheeled + Quadruped Full - Domain Mobile Intelligent Agent
In 2025 when humanoid robots were extremely popular, Wang Zixuan clearly saw the real bottlenecks in the industrial implementation of the industry. "We observed that the core problem in the industrial implementation of the embodied field at present is that the pain points are not painful enough and the rigid demands are not strong enough. The real rigid demand for mobile robots is not to replace people sitting in the office, but those dangerous and arduous positions that should not be done by people in the first place."
Based on this thinking, Juwei Technology did not choose to polish algorithms in structured scenarios or achieve commercialization from scenarios such as performance and education. Instead, it targeted special work scenarios: sending robots to harsh environments such as strong magnetic fields, nuclear radiation, high altitudes, oxygen - deficient areas, extremely cold, and extremely high - temperature environments to engage in work that humans do not want to do, dare not do, or cannot do. Wang Zixuan said, "Currently in China, there are as many as 20 million such high - risk special work positions."
Focusing on these specific scenarios, Juwei Technology focuses on achieving the "four - proof" capabilities of robots: anti - magnetic, anti - explosion, anti - freezing, and anti - water. To achieve these capabilities, the premise is that the robot has a large enough load capacity to ensure its movement ability and stability after protective modifications such as adding an explosion - proof shell, anti - magnetic shielding, and insulation layer. For this reason, Juwei Technology breaks the traditional design paradigm of narrow - bodied and long - legged quadruped robots, adopts a rare "wide - body + short - leg" configuration, and combines traditional wheels with quadruped legs.
Juwei Technology's robots
"We believe that the form that combines the efficiency of wheels and the all - terrain ability of legs is the ultimate solution for future full - domain movement." Wang Zixuan believes that although traditional quadruped robots have obstacle - crossing capabilities, their continuous leg - lifting movement mode has high energy consumption, limited average fault - free endurance time, serious mechanical wear and tear, and the hardware is easily damaged, making it difficult to meet the large - scale and long - term operation requirements in industrial scenarios.
In addition to product form innovation, Juwei Technology has achieved self - research and self - production of components such as high - power joint motors, and has broken through the load limit of robots through high - strength structural design. The dynamic load can reach 200 kilograms, and the static standing load can reach 400 kilograms, more than five times the industry average, enabling it to stably carry various professional equipment such as heavy - duty detection and emergency rescue equipment.
To ensure that the robot can maintain a working state for a long time in extreme environments, Juwei Technology integrates technologies such as the energy recovery system and liquid - cooling solutions from the automotive industry into the robot design through cross - industry combined innovation, improving the energy consumption efficiency of the robot. The measured no - load endurance of the robot has been increased to 12 hours, and the loaded endurance has been increased to 8 hours, breaking through the industry bottleneck and performing several times better than the industry average.
At the algorithm level, Juwei Technology has created an integrated "sensing, planning, control, and driving" system from the underlying FOC control to the upper - layer motion control and perception decision - making, using a modular expansion platform to be compatible with diverse operating equipment, thus taking into account both heavy - load performance and scenario adaptability.
"Only when the underlying system is connected can the performance of the hardware be improved from 70 points to over 95 points, achieving the 'unification of writing and gauges' for robots." According to Wang Zixuan, at the 2025 World Robot Conference, the robot products displayed by Juwei Technology achieved the ability of autonomous following and obstacle - crossing completely without a remote control, and were able to complete autonomous navigation without a map and remote control in a three - dimensional space.
2. Building Higher Technical Barriers Upward and Deeply Tapping into 20 Million Special Work Scenarios Downward
In Wang Zixuan's view, the development of the embodied intelligent industry can be divided into three stages: "The first stage is element innovation, that is, the breakthrough of underlying technologies such as reinforcement learning, which has basically passed. Now, with the results of the first stage, Juwei Technology is entering the second stage of supply chain integration, engineering implementation, and scenario solution, and at the same time moving towards the third stage of business model innovation, ultimately forming a growth flywheel."
Based on its market positioning of focusing on special industrial scenarios, Juwei Technology currently focuses on expanding large state - owned and central enterprise customers in fields such as electrolytic aluminum production, petroleum and petrochemical, fire emergency, and public security and security. "Such customers have higher requirements for safety production, ESG, and social responsibility, and also have stronger payment ability and innovation willingness." Wang Zixuan said.
Customers in these scenarios do not simply calculate the economic accounts of labor replacement, but first focus on the "safety accounts" and "social value accounts". Therefore, the product's technical ability and stability are also the core competitiveness that Juwei Technology needs to focus on building in the long - term to serve the above - mentioned customers well.
Wang Zixuan said that to continuously build higher access barriers, Juwei Technology has obtained the first Ex db eb IIB T4 Gb "flame - proof plus increased - safety" composite explosion - proof qualification for embodied intelligent robots, and also plans to complete a full - series of explosion - proof certifications from the International Electrotechnical Commission (IECEx), the European Union's ATEX, North America, and China's CNEX within this year.
In addition to robot hardware products, Juwei Technology provides full - stack special - purpose operating solutions for customers in complex industrial scenarios, including local deployment, upper - body adaptation, and algorithm platform integration, achieving one - stop closed - loop services from equipment delivery to scenario implementation. In 2025, Juwei Technology achieved an order amount in the hundreds of millions of yuan. Currently, the order scale is hundreds of millions of yuan, and it is expected that the shipment volume of robot products will reach over a thousand units in 2026, achieving revenue in the hundreds of millions of yuan.
When talking about future plans, Wang Zixuan said that the core strategy of Juwei Technology is not to pursue premature horizontal expansion, but to first do in - depth work in the vertical field. "I summarize it as a width of 10 meters and an extension of 100 meters both upwards and downwards."
The so - called "upward" refers to the continuous R & D of core technologies. On the one hand, it further improves product performance, aiming to increase the average fault - free continuous working time to over 10,000 hours by the end of 2027, truly reaching the industrial - grade standard; on the other hand, it strengthens the R & D of the operating system, creating a robot "app store" open to third - party hardware developers to meet the differentiated needs of various segmented scenarios. On the basis of the independent work of a single robot, Juwei Technology is also researching group intelligence technology, and it is expected to achieve the collaborative operation ability of "AI intelligent agents + multiple robots" in the second half of this year.
"Downward" means continuing to deeply tap into 20 million special position scenarios and access qualifications. After the product reliability and algorithm maturity are further improved, it will then migrate to more daily life service scenarios. "From technological breakthroughs, engineering and scenario deep - diving, to ecological and business model innovation, what Juwei Technology has to do is to run through these three stages from the bottom to the top, providing a brand - new paradigm for the industry." Wang Zixuan said.