- Westlake Robotics secured Pre-A+ funding just two months after its previous round.
- The new capital will primarily fund the research and development of a unified full-body large model.
Chinese startup Westlake Robotics has completed its Pre-A+ funding round, just two months after closing its previous round.
Existing backer Xiaomiao Langcheng led the round with additional investment, while new investors Industrial Securities Capital and Beiyu Capital also participated, according to a statement on Wednesday.
The company, founded by a team led by Professor Wang Donglin of Westlake University, said the fresh capital will be primarily used to develop its unified full-body large model technology.
With the new capital injection, Westlake Robotics aims to further consolidate and expand its technological lead amid the fiercely competitive global industry wave.
The company's core competitiveness lies in its in-house developed General Action Expert (GAE) large model and the industry's only dual pre-training large model architecture.
On March 23 this year, the company officially unveiled a humanoid robot named Titan o1, which can replicate complex human movements in real-time without prior programming.
The research and development team said that this fully in-house original algorithm is at least six months ahead of similar technologies from international peers.
While the industry faces multiple exploratory paths and strong divergence in consensus, the capital market has shown high recognition for Westlake Robotics' technological foundation and innovative approach.
Investors including Xiaomiao Langcheng and Industrial Securities Capital explicitly said their strong optimism about the company's robust ability to transition from cutting-edge laboratory breakthroughs to closed-loop commercialization.
Just this past April, Westlake Robotics won multiple awards for its technological prowess and commercial potential, including a spot on the "Top 100 Future Unicorn Enterprises in Zhejiang Province" list.
Founded in 2021, Westlake Robotics focuses on end-to-end embodied large models integrating both "cerebrum" and "cerebellum" capabilities.
Its founder, Wang, is the director of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory (MILAB) at Westlake University and one of the leading figures in China's embodied AI and robot learning fields.
