Shanghai Zhiyuan Xinchuang Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 2023, Zhiyuan Robot is an innovative enterprise committed to creating an embodied intelligent robot product and application ecology with the integration and innovation of AI robots, and released the first generation of general-purpose embodied intelligent robot - Expedition A1 in August 2023, which has a high technical level in the fields of bipedal walking, intelligent tasks, and human-computer interaction, and will be gradually applied to flexible intelligent manufacturing, interactive services, special stand-ins, warehousing and logistics and other scenarios.
Founded in February 2023, Shanghai Zhiyuan Xinchuang Technology Co., Ltd. is an innovative enterprise committed to building a world-leading embodied intelligent robot product and application ecology with the integration and innovation of AI robots.
The founding team includes a number of industry veterans, including "Zhihuijun" Peng Zhihui, with comprehensive and complementary backgrounds, and profound core technical background, industrial management experience and industrial resources. Up to now, Zhiyuan Robot has completed multiple rounds of financing such as angel round, A round, A1 round, A1 round, A2 round, A3 round, A4 round and so on.
In August 2023, Zhiyuan Robotics released the first generation of general-purpose embodied intelligent robot prototype - Expedition A1;
In August 2024, the Zhiyuan Robot family series of commercial products was released, and commercial mass production will be launched in scenarios such as interactive services, flexible intelligent manufacturing, special operations, scientific research and education, and data collection.
AgiBot, founded in February 2023, is a robot brand founded by Peng Zhihui, headquartered in Shanghai, China, which mainly deeply integrates AI and robots, develops and produces a series of products such as general humanoid robots and embodied intelligence.
In December 2022, Peng Zhihui announced his resignation from Huawei and started his entrepreneurial journey, that is, Zhiyuan Robot. In March 2023, Zhiyuan Robotics completed an angel round of financing, with investors including Hillhouse Venture Capital and MiraclePlus; At the beginning of April, Zhiyuan Robot completed the A round of financing; At the end of April, Zhiyuan Robotics completed a round of financing, with investors including BV Baidu Venture Capital, Jingwei Venture Capital, and Sinan Yuanke; In August, Zhiyuan Robotics completed the A round of financing, with investors including BYD, Wofu Venture Capital, and Lanchi Venture Capital; On August 18, the Expedition A1 intelligent robot was officially released. In January 2024, the "Peking University-Zhiyuan Robotics Joint Laboratory" was officially established; On February 28, Zhiyuan Robot held its first shareholders' meeting; On August 18, Zhiyuan Robot released a total of five new commercial humanoid robots in two series, "Expedition" and "Lingxi"; On August 28, Shanghai Lingang Economic Development (Group) Co., Ltd. and Zhiyuan Robot held a strategic cooperation signing ceremony. On September 3, Shanghai Zhiyuan New Technology Co., Ltd. completed a new round of financing, with investors including Muhua Venture Capital, iSoftStone, LCVPF Holdco Limited, Muhua Capital and Zhongke Chuangxing, of which Zhongke Chuangxing is the old shareholder; On October 24, the Zhiyuan Lingxi X1 humanoid robot was officially announced as an open source; On December 16, Zhiyuan Robot released a video announcing that it officially started the mass production of general-purpose robots.
In November 2023, Zhiyuan Robot was selected into the "2023 Forbes China Top 50 Innovative Enterprises"; In December, it won the 2023 Humanoid Robot Creative Demonstration Award. In November 2024, Zhiyuan Robotics was selected as one of the "2024 Forbes China's Top 50 Innovative Enterprises". On January 6, 2025, the 1,000th universal embodied robot officially rolled off the production line.
In December 2022, Peng Zhihui announced his resignation from Huawei and started his entrepreneurial journey, that is, Zhiyuan Robot.
In March 2023, Zhiyuan Robotics completed an angel round of financing, with investors including Hillhouse Ventures and MiraclePlus.
At the beginning of April 2023, Zhiyuan Robotics completed Series A financing, with investors including Hillhouse Ventures, CDH Investments, Gaorong Capital, and Lingang New Area Fund.
At the end of April 2023, Zhiyuan Robotics completed Series A financing, with investors including BV Baidu Ventures, Jingwei Venture Capital, and Sinan Yuanke.
In August 2023, Zhiyuan Robotics completed Series A financing, with investors including BYD, Wofu Venture Capital, and Lanchi Venture Capital.
On August 18, 2023, Peng Zhihui held a new product launch conference in Shanghai to officially release the Expedition A1 intelligent robot. At the press conference, Peng Zhihui demonstrated the technological advancement of the "new human" of "Expedition A1" from two aspects: humanoid robot ontology technology and embodied intelligence technology, as well as the possibility of "Expedition A1" being applied in industrial applications, biomedical preparation, home services and other scenarios in the future.
On the afternoon of August 28, 2023, Shanghai Lingang Economic Development (Group) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Lingang Group) and Zhiyuan Robotics (the full name of the enterprise is Shanghai Zhiyuan Xinchuang Technology Co., Ltd.) held a strategic cooperation signing ceremony. The two parties will give full play to their respective advantages in the field of industry and technology, closely integrate different resources, and achieve in-depth synergy through a variety of cooperation models.
In November 2023, Zhiyuan Robot was selected by Forbes China as one of the top 50 innovative enterprises in China.
In December 2023, Zhiyuan Robot, an intelligent robot start-up, has completed a round of financing with an amount of more than 600 million yuan, which is invested by Lanchi Venture Capital, Zhongke Chuangxing, CDH Investment, Changfei Fund, C Capital, Hillhouse Venture Capital, Lijing Innovation, Sanhua Holding Group, Cornerstone Capital and other institutions.
In January 2024, the "Peking University-Zhiyuan Robotics Joint Laboratory" (hereinafter referred to as the "Joint Laboratory") was officially established, and the unveiling ceremony was held at the Frontier Computing Research Center of Peking University. Peng Zhihui, co-founder of Zhiyuan, introduced the R&D goals of the joint laboratory at the scene, and emphasized the importance of general humanoid robots and embodied intelligence technology to national scientific and technological innovation and economic development.
On February 28, 2024, Zhiyuan Robot held its first shareholders' meeting. At the conference, the company's plan for 2024 was revealed: Zhiyuan Robotics will start with a new generation of products such as Yuanzheng A2 and Dustless C5 to realize the empowerment of industrial and commercial scenarios and achieve commercialization.
On May 14, 2024, Gong Siyi, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Dean of Shanghai Dianji University, Yang Junjie, Vice Dean of Shanghai Dianji University, and other delegations, together with experts from Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics of Shanghai University, visited Zhiyuan Robotics to discuss tripartite collaborative innovation and cooperation.
On August 18, 2024, Zhiyuan Robotics held the 2024 annual new product launch conference of "Zhiyuan Expedition Commercial Sailing", and released a total of five new commercial humanoid robots in two series, "Expedition" and "Lingxi", including Expedition A2, Expedition A2-W, Expedition A2-Max, Lingxi X1 and Lingxi X1-W. In scenarios such as interactive services, flexible intelligent manufacturing, special operations, scientific research and education, and data collection, five robots have started commercial mass production. At the press conference, Zhiyuan Robotics announced a series of blockbuster open source plans, including: AimRT, a high-performance communication framework for intelligent robots, will be open sourced at the end of September, and Lingxi X1, incubated by X-Lab, will be open source in September, and at the same time, it is announced that millions of real machines and tens of millions of simulation datasets based on AIDEA will be open source in the fourth quarter of 2024.
On September 3, 2024, Shanghai Zhiyuan New Technology Co., Ltd. completed a new round of financing, with investors including Muhua Venture Capital, iSoftStone, LCVPF Holdco Limited, Muhua Capital and Zhongke Chuangxing, of which Zhongke Chuangxing is the old shareholder. This round of financing diluted a total of 5.6205% of the shares, so far, Zhiyuan Robot has completed the A round of financing.
On October 24, 2024, Zhiyuan Robot announced that the Lingxi X1 is officially open source to the world, the software and hardware drawings and code are online on GitHub, and the development guide is online on the official website of Zhiyuan Robot. The Zhiyuan Robot Lingxi X1 is a humanoid robot with a high degree of freedom and modular design, with a height of 133 cm and a weight of about 33 kg.
In November 2024, Zhiyuan Robotics was selected as one of the "2024 Forbes China's Top 50 Innovative Enterprises".
On December 16, 2024, Zhiyuan Robot released a video announcing that it officially started the mass production of general-purpose robots. On December 30, Zhiyuan Robotics released AgiBot World, an open-source project for millions of real machine datasets, and will upload data in batches on HuggingFace, Github and agibot-world.com project homepage as planned.
On January 6, 2025, Zhiyuan Robotics announced that the 1,000th general-purpose embodied robot in mass production officially rolled off the production line, including 731 bipedal humanoid robots (Expedition A2/Lingxi X1) and 269 wheeled general-purpose robots (Expedition A2-D/A2-W). On February 25, Zhiyuan Robotics announced the launch of AgiBot Digital World, a self-developed large-scale simulation framework, to provide simulation data generation solutions, pre-trained large-scale simulation data and model evaluation standards for robot operations, and synchronize open-source massive simulation data.
Main products:
Zhiyuan Expedition A1
The "Expedition A1" is a humanoid robot with a complete humanoid shape, and the "Embodied AI" in the product description also represents the combination of artificial intelligence technology and robotic entities.
The Expedition A1 robot is a humanoid bipedal robot with a complete human shape, with a height of 175cm, a weight of 55kg, a maximum pace of 7km/h, 49 degrees of freedom of the whole body, a load of 80kg, and a maximum load of 5kg in a single arm. The whole body has 49 degrees of freedom, that is, it is equipped with 49 electric joints, and adopts a high-density electric drive mode, with a peak torque of 300 Nm.
Zhiyuan's "embodied brain" includes several parts, such as cloud superbrain, brain, cerebellum, and brain stem, which are responsible for task-level, skill-level, instruction-level, and servo-level tasks. WorkGPT is a task-level embodied multimodal model developed by Zhiyuan, which gives robots the ability to understand user intentions, perceive the environment, and arrange tasks, and can call ontology skills and massive tools to complete multi-level tasks. The self-developed robot task dataset was added to strengthen the perception and decision-making ability of the visual language model. The joint motor PowerFlow uses a collimated drive joint solution to achieve a low cogging torque design, with a high-torque transparency planetary reducer within 10 speed ratios, a coaxial dual encoder integrated liquid-cooled cycle cooling system, and a self-developed vector control driver, with a peak torque of more than 350N·m and a weight of only 1.6KG. SkillHand is a high-freedom dexterous hand designed for precision operations for the next generation of robots, with 12 active degrees of freedom and 5 passive degrees of freedom, all drives built-in, and integrated vision-based fingertip sensors.
Specifications:
Height 175cm, weight 55kg, pace: 7km/h, degrees of freedom: 49, maximum load of a single arm: 5kg, AI computing power: 200TOPS
Zhiyuan Expedition A2
Zhiyuan Expedition A2 adopts the principle of human factors engineering, which is suitable for marketing customer service, exhibition hall explanation, supermarket guide, front desk reception, business consulting and other work.
In terms of configuration, the Expedition A2 refers to the ergonomic design, the height and size ratio is close to that of humans, the appearance of science and technology is very high, and the contour line is elegant without losing a sense of strength; In line with the principle of human factors and engineering, HRI (Human Robotic Interaction) design is closer to the natural human interaction experience; The universal human skeleton structure and modular design support the ability to expand the personalized appearance and meet the diverse needs of user scenarios.
In terms of intelligent experience, based on large voice models, super-anthropomorphic synthesis technology, full-duplex dialogue capabilities, and device-side model deployment, the real-time dialogue of robots is more vibrant and affinity. Based on the large language model RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), the enterprise customized business knowledge base is built, which supports precision marketing discourse, business consulting and guidance, and exhibition explanation, making information transmission more efficient and intuitive. Based on the multi-modal large model, the multi-channel information processing capability makes human-computer interaction easier and more comfortable. Integrating sound source localization, face and lip shape detection algorithms, the pickup accuracy rate is 96% and the face wake-up rate is 99% in noisy and high-noise scenes. Based on the large action model (ActionGPT), hundreds of humanoid natural actions can be dynamically generated according to human voice commands and intentions, and light work tasks can be executed.
In terms of autonomous movement, based on the HIMUS (High-performance Multimodal Mapping System) 3D-SLAM algorithm and VectorFlux control algorithm, it has low latency and low drift performance, and supports L4 autonomous movement in complex and changeable dynamic environments. Mass production of self-developed integrated joints with high reliability, lightweight, and ultra-high groove full rate winding process, with a maximum peak torque of 430N·m and a motor torque density of 50Nm/kg, with good dynamic performance and reliable joints to support long-term stable walking; With the RTMOF (Real-Time Robust Motion Framework) nonlinear model predictive control and reinforcement learning algorithms, as well as the efficient dynamic programming engine, it can quickly generate the global optimal trajectory, continuously optimize the motion strategy, and have strong anti-interference ability, so as to achieve agile, reliable, flexible and comfortable walking in uncertain environments.
Specifications:
Height: 169cm, weight: 69kg Battery: 700wh In-situ U-turn width: 60cm Endurance: 2h (support battery swap) Full-body freedom 40 (active degrees of freedom)
Zhiyuan Lingxi X1 humanoid robot
The Zhiyuan Robot Lingxi X1 is a humanoid robot with a high degree of freedom and modular design, with a height of 133 cm and a weight of about 33 kg.
On August 18, 2024, Zhiyuan Lingxi X1 made its debut at Zhiyuan's 2024 annual new product launch conference, which adopts a modular design, which can be easily disassembled and assembled to meet the needs of changing environments and tasks; The high degree of freedom design shows flexible movement ability; Secure, lightweight, and highly scalable, it is more suitable for human-computer interaction and light service scenarios. In the process of building Zhiyuan Lingxi X1, Zhiyuan Robot innovatively applied the self-developed PowerFlow R86 and R52 joint motors, relying on the modular design concept, which can be easily disassembled and assembled in the form of simple hoops. Compared with ordinary motors, PowerFlow has many functions such as hollow wiring, absolute value coding at the output end, and support for PF-Link intelligent interface, making it simple to apply and powerful to perform.
