Recently, "Accelerated Evolution", a technology company focusing on the research and development of humanoid robots, announced the completion of a 100 million yuan Pre-A round of financing, jointly funded by Bianshi Times, CMBC International, Zhongguancun Science City and iCANX Fund, with the participation of old shareholder Inno Angel. The editor of Downcodes learned that this round of financing will be mainly used to build a universal ontology and improve software development capabilities, marking that the field of humanoid robots continues to gain capital favor, and also indicates that universal humanoid robots are about to usher in rapid development.
According to 36Kr news, a technology company focusing on the research and development of humanoid robots has accelerated its evolution and recently announced the completion of a 100 million yuan Pre-A round of financing. This round of financing was jointly funded by Bianshi Times, CMBC International, Zhongguancun Science City and iCANX Fund, with participation from old shareholder Inno Angel. The company stated that the funds will be mainly used to build universal ontology and improve software development capabilities.
Cheng Hao, CEO of Accelerated Evolution, believes that the current craze for humanoid robots is driven by AI. He emphasized that AGI (artificial general intelligence) requires new carriers, especially carriers that can have an impact on the physical world. Therefore, the company's goal is to promote the transformation of humanoid robots from specialization to generality.
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To achieve this goal, the first phase of "Accelerated Evolution" business positioning is to provide developers with a universal bipedal robot and operation control algorithm development platform. This allows developers to train robots to perform a variety of tasks in different scenarios based on the company's hardware products and software platforms, thus driving productivity changes.
Unlike many humanoid robot companies that choose wheeled forms, Accelerated Evolution chose the more difficult bipedal form. Cheng Hao explained that feet are more versatile and can adapt to most life scenarios and can do things that everyone can do. The Booster T1 currently provided by the company to developers is a bipedal humanoid robot with a height of 1.1 meters and a weight of 29 kilograms. It has sufficient athletic ability and stability.
"Accelerated Evolution" is exploring a variety of application scenarios to achieve high generalization and multi-scenario applications. For example, at this year's World Robot Conference, the company showed a scene of a robot playing football, which not only demonstrated the robot's intelligence and general understanding capabilities, but also attracted widespread attention from the audience.
In terms of commercialization, "Accelerated Evolution" has obtained commercial orders for humanoid robots and plans to carry out small batch production and delivery within the year. The company has also launched a new round of financing.
In terms of team strength, Cheng Hao, founder and CEO of Accelerated Evolution, graduated from Tsinghua University and has nearly ten years of large-scale product development experience. The company's chief scientist, Zhao Guoming, is a researcher at the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University. He has focused on footed bionics, brain-like robots and system research in the past 20 years.
This round of financing and technological development from Accelerated Evolution shows that the field of humanoid robots is attracting more and more investment and attention. With the advancement of AI technology and the continuous optimization of robot hardware, we may soon see more general-purpose humanoid robots used in various scenarios. This will not only promote the development of the robotics industry, but may also have a profound impact on future work and lifestyle.
The successful financing and technological progress of "Accelerated Evolution" have given a boost to the development of the humanoid robot industry. The future is worth looking forward to!