Albaba leads $ 100 million investments in the start of the Chinese human robot

BEIJING – With the rise in home robots, the Chinese company Humanoid SQUARE Robot announced on Monday that it had received about $ 100 million in a financing tour led by Ali Baba clouds.

It is the eighth round of financing in the Shenzhen headquarters since the company was launched less than two years ago in December 2023, according to the chief operational employee Yang Qian. She told CNBC that the latest deal to the total investment in X Square Robot to about two billion yuan ($ 280 million).

Hongshan, who was previously Sikoya Capital China, participated in the latest financing round, along with MetanLegend Star, Legend Capital and Ince Capital. She refused to start the comment on her evaluation.

Adventure capital rushed to pour money into human robots on expectations that combining them with obstetric artificial intelligence will turn how machines interact with humans.

“For the moment, we need robots to operate and complete complex tasks independently,” said Yang in Mandarin, translated by CNBC. She pointed out that after decades of trying to develop robots, which were largely able to perform limited tasks such as additional organisms, the industry realized that artificial intelligence is required to enable these machines to expand their capabilities.

X Square Robot was also released on Monday What it calls “The Open Source Foundation for the Edit AI Relationship”, ” His name is the wall. The open source means that developers and the general public can reach the basic code and use it for free. The embodiment refers to the use of integrated technology with devices, such as robots or self -driving compounds.

The startup said it was the first to open an Amnesty International source of its kind designated for robots – and it is expected that the “automated servants” will become a reality within five years. CNBC was unable to check this claim.

Yang admitted that the artificial intelligence of robots is still lagging behind the progress of the gym of chatting or generating the code, and said she expects technology for robots to achieve Chatgpt 3.5 capabilities for at least 12 months. Yang also indicated that “AI embodied” has no very clear criteria that can determine relative progress.

While using the startup Nafidia Yang said that the chips for computing, other jobs only require less powerful cars to be obtained locally.

Chatgpt 3.5 was the US -based Chatgpt 3.5 -based Openei that was launched in November 2022 and that transformed work expectations for artificial intelligence capabilities. Chinese companies did not create an applicable competitor until the release of the R1 R1 from Deepseek earlier this year. Analysts suggest that China is on the road For a global feature in artificial intelligence applicationsIt includes Robots.

In addition to the open source software, X Square Robot also launched its Quanta X2, which the emerging company said it can attach the MP heads to clean 360 degrees, and comes with hands capable of realizing changes in microscopic pressure in a step towards human -like jobs.

X Square Robot said that it currently does not have a product to deliver the comprehensive market, and that the specified prices are determined by the state of robot. The price of Humanoid, according to Humanoid guide for Humanoid is $ 80,000. Current competitor UNITREE Humanoid sells for $ 16,000Although it is unclear how clear its functions are.

Yang said that the robot company is planning to start preparing for a first year offer next year, but he said that the start of the operation has not yet settled on the place where the list will be. She said that X Square Robot has already generated sales revenues to schools, hotels and retirement houses, and it is expected to grow next year.

She added that the start starting was already talking to customers in Japan and Singapore. But in order for robots to really enter the consumer market, the price must decrease to about 10,000 dollars – to a large extent through the discounts in the costs of the devices – an achievement you expect within three to five years.