ACE Robotics (大晓机器人) has recently completed its Angel round of financing. This round was led by Ant Group (蚂蚁集团), with follow-on investments from Qiming Venture Partners (启明创投), Golden Vision Capital (金景资本), Hony Capital (弘毅投资), Lenovo Capital (联想创投), and Hanyuan Asset of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交大母基金菡源资产). Existing shareholder SenseTime Guoxiang Capital (商汤国香资本) continued to increase its investment.
The funds raised in this round will be used by ACE Robotics to advance the technological iteration of the "human-centric" ACE embodied full-stack R&D paradigm, accelerate environmental data collection and the development of Kairos 3.0 (开悟世界模型3.0), promote the large-scale implementation of the embodied super brain module, and actively expand into more commercial scenarios such as energy, transportation, and cultural tourism.
Wang Xiaogang, Co-founder and Executive Director of SenseTime (商汤科技) and Chairman of ACE Robotics, stated: "We thank the many investors for their recognition of ACE Robotics. Embodied intelligence is a track with infinite potential and rapid growth. ACE Robotics adheres to continuous technological innovation and a deep understanding of embodied intelligence scenarios. We will work with industry chain partners to build an open and collaborative industrial ecosystem, transforming cutting-edge embodied intelligence technology into new quality productive forces that drive industry progress, allowing every robot to possess a 'smart brain'."
ACE Robotics possesses core talent that is top-tier and combines cutting-edge technology with industrial practice. Among the global Top 5 Chinese Computer Scientists (Research.com), ACE Robotics occupies two seats—Professor Wang Xiaogang and Professor Tao Dacheng are both listed. The team also brings together a group of scarce cutting-edge AI scientists including Lu Jianqin, Li Hongsheng, Liu Ziwei, Pan Xingang, Zhao Hengshuang, and Liu Xihui from Nanyang Technological University, the University of Hong Kong, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Deeply cultivating key fields such as environmental intelligence, world models, and embodied intelligence, their continuous innovation capabilities will help ACE Robotics seize the technological commanding heights.
In mid-December 2025, ACE Robotics officially released the industry's first "human-centric" ACE embodied R&D paradigm, building a full-link technical system of "environmental data collection — Kairos 3.0 — embodied interaction," bringing fundamental innovation to industry development. In the ACE embodied R&D paradigm, environmental data collection can achieve ten million hours of data collection per year. Kairos 3.0 continuously amplifies the value of real data, enabling it to achieve the effect of hundreds of millions of hours of data scale, promising to thoroughly solve the "data shortage" constraining the development of the embodied intelligence industry.
Relying on its industry-pioneering environmental data collection solution, ACE Robotics is jointly promoting the data acquisition test site project with partners to build a commercially viable database. Kairos 3.0 is the first open-source and commercially implemented benchmark technical achievement in China, with performance comprehensively leading international mainstream world models. Through open APIs, toolchains, and leading product platforms, it promotes the rapid emergence of various lightweight and customized embodied intelligence products and facilitates the development of the application ecosystem.
The embodied super brain module A1 launched by ACE Robotics flexibly adapts to different forms of robot bodies, allowing various robotic dogs to "understand commands, navigate, and do practical work." It has reached strategic cooperation with many ecosystem partners and has been verified and implemented in diverse scenarios such as inspections and cultural tourism, achieving a large-scale commercial closed loop.
Relying on the innovative ACE R&D paradigm and leading technical products, ACE Robotics continues to reach strategic cooperation with partners in multiple fields such as embodied manufacturers, hardware, chips, cloud services, and data vendors, jointly building a fully independent and controllable embodied intelligence ecosystem, providing a solid foundation for the R&D and application of embodied intelligence.
As the embodied intelligence industry enters a critical period of large-scale implementation, ACE Robotics will further accelerate product commercial expansion and ecosystem layout perfection. It will continue to amplify commercial implementation scale and ecological value with strategic partners, injecting continuous momentum into the industry's prosperity.