Agibot, a humanoid robot developer invested by C Capital, completed a new round of A2 financing on December 1. This round of financing was funded by Lanchi Ventures, Casstar, CDH Fund, YOFC Fund, C Capital, Hillhouse Investment, Luxvisions Innovation, Sanhua Group, CoStone Capital, Lingang Special Area Fund and Yinxinggu Capital.
Since its establishment in February this year, Agibot has completed a total of five rounds of financing, from the angel round to the A2 round. In less than a year, it has rapidly achieved product iteration and commercialization, demonstrating strong development potential and market competitiveness. This round of financing will further accelerate the company’s development.
Agibot is a humanoid robot development company that focuses on the deep integration of AI and robots. It develops and produces general-purpose humanoid robots and embodied intelligence products, aiming to provide related robot products and services for industry users.
Agibot gained fame with its founder, Peng Zhihui, known as “Zhihui Jun” or “Genius Youngster.” In August this year, Agibot launched the Expedition A1 humanoid robot and introduced its self-developed PowerFlow joint motor, reverse-jointed design, and SkillHand.
“Zhihui Jun”, co-founder of Agibot
The Expedition A1 stands at a height of 175cm, weighs 55kg, and can reach a maximum walking speed of 7km/h. It has 49 degrees of freedom, a payload capacity of 80kg, and a maximum load of 5kg for a single arm. The Expedition A1 not only resembles humans in form but also demonstrates industry-leading capabilities in bipedal walking, intelligent tasks, human-robot interaction, and other areas.
Peng Zhihui said, “The Expedition A1 is Agibot’s first-generation general-purpose embodied intelligent robot. It was created by the founding team within half a year based on their experience in the robot and AI industries. This robot will be able to autonomously move and perform tasks in various complex scenarios in the future. We are committed to integrating advanced robot and AI technologies closely with human life and production, making robots valuable assistants to humans.”
At the launch event, Peng Zhihui introduced a series of core components and their technical indicators:
1. Core Joint Motor - PowerFlow
Agibot’s self-developed PowerFlow utilizes a direct-drive joint solution, achieving low cogging torque design. It is paired with high-torque transparent planetary reducers with a speed ratio of less than 10, conjugate coaxial dual encoders, an integrated liquid cooling system, and a self-developed vector control driver. It has a peak torque exceeding 350NM while weighing only 1.6 kg.
2. SkillHand
SkillHand has 12 active degrees of freedom and 5 passive degrees of freedom, with all the drives built-in. It integrates vision-based fingertip sensors and is specifically designed for precision operations. It will become a standard accessory for the Expedition series after further iterations.
3. AgiROS
AgiROS is Agibot’s self-developed robot runtime middleware system. Adhering to principles of lightweightness, easy-to-use, high performance, and high scalability, AgiROS follows modern development paradigms and provides interfaces in multiple languages. It is compatible with major robotics development ecosystems including ROS, ROS2, as well as cloud service ecosystems like GRPC and HTTP.
4. Language Task Model - WorkGPT
Different from traditional AI technologies, Agibot’s WorkGPT fully utilizes the extensive prior knowledge base and strong general understanding capabilities of large-scale language and image models. It achieves complex semantic multilevel reasoning abilities, also known as “thinking chains.”
5. EI-Brain
Agibot’s EI-Brain architecture divides the robot’s cognitive system into the cloud-based superbrain, edge-based brain, cerebellum, and several layers of brainstem, corresponding to the robot’s task level, skill level, command level, and servo level capabilities, respectively. Based on task data feedback, EI-Brain can continuously self-learn and reinforce during robot task execution.
It is reported that the Expedition A1 will quickly enter commercialization and be applied in the field of intelligent manufacturing next year. It will gradually go to home, assisting workers, researchers, and family members in various tasks. Agibot is advancing collaborations with several leading manufacturing companies to apply the Expedition A1 in practical scenarios and plans to promote its use in more fields in the coming years.
