Tianji Intelligence, a robotics company, has completed a financing round of 1 billion yuan with participation from Meituan and Tencent.

Image source: Official website of Guangdong Tianji Intelligent System Co., Ltd.

On May 25th, the official account of Tianji Robot announced that Guangdong Tianji Intelligent System Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Tianji Intelligent) recently completed a Series B and B+ financing round worth 1 billion yuan, with a post - investment valuation of nearly 10 billion yuan.

It is reported that this round of financing was co - led by Hillhouse Ventures and Meituan Strategic Investment, and co - invested by Tencent, GaoRong Capital, Photosynthetic Ventures, GGV Capital, etc. Gaohe Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor. The funds from this round of financing will be mainly used for technology R & D, large - scale mass production, and the construction of a global sales network.

Tianji Intelligent was established on May 19, 2015, with a registered capital of approximately 180 million yuan. The legal representative is Chen Xi. The company is held by Shenzhen Changying Precision Technology Co., Ltd. with a 27% stake, CLH 142 (HK) Limited with a 19.7212% stake, and Chen Xi with a 15.225% stake, etc.

The company focuses on robots and control systems, concentrating on robot products and applications. It has a full - range product matrix of small and medium - load robots and has self - developed the Tianji Fusion control system. The company claims to be the world's first embodied intelligence company to self - develop MEMS joint torque sensors and apply them to robot joints. According to the official website data, as of the end of 2022, there were more than 800 customers using Tianji's products, and more than 10,000 sets of robots were running stably online.

Data provided by Tianji Intelligent shows that last year, the company delivered more than 2,000 force - controlled humanoid dual - arm robots within 4 months, becoming the world's first company to achieve mass production and delivery of force - controlled humanoid dual - arm robots with the largest shipment volume. In the first quarter of 2026, the on - hand orders exceeded 10,000 units, and the customers covered 45 global humanoid robot complete machine manufacturers and embodied intelligence unicorn enterprises.

Regarding future development, Tianji Intelligent said that in terms of technology R & D, it will continue to deeply explore MEMS sensors, integrated joint modules, and motion control algorithms, maintain its leading position in the industry in core indicators such as force - control accuracy, torque loop bandwidth, and load - to - weight ratio, and plan to incubate humanoid complete machine products and brands.

After this round of financing, Tianji will further increase the automation rate and first - pass yield of the production line, improve the delivery capacity of tens of thousands of units, and meet the upcoming large - scale demand of the embodied intelligence industry. In terms of global sales network construction, on the basis of serving the existing 45 global leading complete machine manufacturers, it will accelerate the layout of local sales and technical support teams in overseas markets such as North America, serve international leading embodied intelligence enterprises, and enter their core supply chain systems.

After the popularity of embodied intelligence last year, the popularity of this track continued to rise in 2026. The financing scale in the first three months alone was nearly 30 billion yuan, and the trend of capital gathering towards leading enterprises became more obvious. For example, in April this year, Xinghaitu, a leading domestic embodied intelligence enterprise, announced that it had received a Series B+ financing of 2 billion yuan, with a valuation exceeding 20 billion yuan, becoming the domestic embodied intelligence enterprise with the highest valuation at present. In February this year, the company just completed a Series B financing of 1 billion yuan in the Hong Kong stock market.

Some analysts believe that different from the early stage when capital chased "technological concepts", the investment logic of embodied intelligence in 2026 has undergone a profound transformation. Capital now pays more attention to the enterprise's ability to verify in real scenarios, commercial closed - loop, and engineering implementation level, shifting from "concept betting" to "actual combat ability" and "engineering implementation". Guotai Haitong also believes that future investment focuses will mainly be on the application and implementation of embodied intelligence, including the new hardware requirements generated by the "perception - decision - execution" closed - loop.

According to IDC's prediction, the global intelligent robot hardware market scale is expected to approach 30 billion US dollars in 2026, and China will undoubtedly become the core engine.

Last year, "embodied intelligence" and "intelligent robots" were included in the key development directions of future industries for the first time and officially upgraded to a national strategy. Local governments have also increased their efforts. Among them, Beijing proposed to break through more than 1,000 key technologies and cultivate a 100 - billion - level industrial cluster by 2027; Shanghai set a goal of exceeding 50 billion yuan in the core industrial scale and provided a maximum of 30% support, not exceeding 50 million yuan, for key technology research. According to incomplete statistics, more than 20 cities across the country have put forward their own development goals for embodied intelligence.

The "China Development Report 2025" shows that the scale of China's embodied intelligence industry is expected to reach 400 billion yuan in 2030 and exceed one trillion yuan in 2035.

This article is from the WeChat official account "Jiemian News", author: Hou Ruining. It is published by 36Kr with authorization.