“The Scaling Law is a prerequisite for embodied intelligence to achieve true large-scale commercial deployment, and it is also key to breaking through the industry’s development bottlenecks,” said Kun Xu, Business Partner of the Investment Banking Division at China Renaissance.
Today, RoboScience（（北京机科未来科技有限公司）） announced the completion of a Pre-A financing round totaling several hundred million RMB. The round was led by Puhua Capital（普华资本）, with participation from Fortune Venture Capital（达晨财智）, LongCapital（长石资本）, Radiant Tech Ventures（香港慧科科创）, and Tianqi Capital（天启资本）. Existing shareholders including China Merchants Venture（招商局创投）, and others also increased their investment. China Renaissance（华兴资本） served as the exclusive financial advisor for this round.
The proceeds will primarily be used to further advance RoboScience’s core VLOA large model technology, accelerating the realization of its vision to build general-purpose robots.
RoboScience has introduced an end-to-end VLOA (Vision-Language-Object-Action) large model that integrates an embodied world model with an embodied manipulation foundation model. The system is designed to create a general intelligence framework adaptable to any task, any object, and any robot. Through an efficient closed-loop framework combining a “physics engine – simulation data – end-to-end training” pipeline, the model addresses key challenges in generalization and dexterous manipulation.
RoboScience Founder and CEO Tian Ye received his bachelor’s degree from the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学） and his master’s degree from the Stanford AI Lab. He previously served as Head of AI Platform at Apple.
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Lin Shao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore and earned his Ph.D. from the Stanford AI Lab. As early as 2020, he initiated and completed the Concept2Robot project, exploring the integration of natural language and video for learning robotic manipulation tasks—one of the early works in the Vision-Language-Action (VLA) direction.
Co-Founder Liu Penghai previously served as Vice President of Ecovacs Group. With over 20 years of experience in new product development and introduction, he built Ecovacs’ product development processes and integrated supply chain management system from the ground up, enabling the mass production of more than 50 robotic products.
RoboScience is committed to building world-leading embodied intelligence foundation models and robotic hardware products. In the future, its embodied large models will enable robots designed for different application scenarios to be widely deployed across retail, logistics, industrial, and household sectors, delivering safe and intelligent solutions.