Deebot Robotics Closes $100 Million Series A, Monolith Co-Leads

On May 28, 2025, marking its first anniversary of independent operations, D-Robotics, a subsidiary of Horizon Robotics-W (9660.HK), announced the completion of a $100 million Series A funding round. The round drew support from numerous domestic and international investment institutions, with Monolith, Hillhouse, 5Y Capital, Linear Capital, Herun Capital, Unity Ventures, Vertex Growth, Dunhong Asset, Firedian Capital, Plum Ventures, Huangpu River Capital, and others co-investing — injecting strong momentum into D-Robotics' accelerated buildout of its embodied intelligence ecosystem.

Since its founding, D-Robotics has remained committed to its founding vision of "becoming the Wintel of the robotics era," dedicated to building full-stack, hardware-software integrated, edge-cloud collaborative development infrastructure that makes smarter robotics development simpler. Commercially, it has achieved horizontal expansion from scaled deployment in consumer robotics markets, to incubation of diverse emerging robot categories, to collaborative innovation with leading embodied intelligence enterprises — all driving forward the intelligent evolution and scaled deployment of robotics.

First to Build a Full-Stack Product System Spanning Chips, Algorithms, and Software

Drawing on years of technical accumulation and industry experience, D-Robotics has constructed a complete product system covering chips, algorithms, and software. Addressing the rapidly emerging and increasingly segmented scenario demands of intelligent robots from consumer to industrial applications, it has formed a comprehensive product layout spanning 5–500 TOPS* across all compute tiers, fully satisfying edge computing needs for humanoid robots, wheeled-legged robots, quadruped robot dogs, service and companion robots, logistics AMRs, and more.

To accelerate the deployment of embodied intelligent robots, D-Robotics will officially launch the RDK S100 robotics development kit in June, targeting embodied intelligence applications. The platform delivers hundred-TOPS-level compute power with a powerful heterogeneous architecture design, making it the industry's first single-SoC compute-and-control integrated computing platform capable of collaborative perception and motion control computing. The platform has already secured early adoption from several top industry partners including Leju Robotics, LimX Dynamics, RealMan, Tsinghua University Institute for AI Industry Research, QiuZhi Technology, and Guoxunxinwei.

Enabling millions of robots to enter homes annually

Nearly 100,000 robot developers

Across the globe

In household consumer robotics markets with the largest user bases — such as robot vacuums and robotic lawn mowers — D-Robotics' Sunrise series intelligent computing chips have been fully deployed across bestselling products from industry leaders including Ecovacs and Narwal, with cumulative shipments exceeding 5 million units. The chips continue to grow by millions of units annually, bringing intelligent innovation experiences to users worldwide.

While deepening its presence in consumer markets, D-Robotics has actively driven developer ecosystem building, having empowered over 200 small and medium creators to date, incubating nearly 100 emerging intelligent robot categories spanning golf robots, pool robots, tennis robots, home companion robots, and other innovative forms. The platform boasts nearly 100,000 developer users, growing at 100% annually, distributed across more than 20 countries globally including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, and China.

In university ecosystem development, D-Robotics has built a complete embodied intelligence talent cultivation ecosystem spanning graduate education, undergraduate education, vocational education, and K-12 education — a continuous pipeline from primary through higher education. Partner universities have expanded from 20 to over 200, encompassing leading institutions such as Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, gathering momentum for cultivating future professional talent in robotics through comprehensive empowerment support.