"RealMan Intelligent Technology" Closes Series A+ Round, Yunqi Capital Continues to Double Down | Yunqi Capital

➤➤➤ Recently, RealMan Intelligent Technology, a developer of ultra-lightweight humanoid robotic arms, announced the completion of its Series A+ funding round, led by ECOVACS with continued follow-on investment from existing shareholder Yunqi Capital.

Founded in 2018, RealMan is the only domestic company to achieve self-developed breakthroughs across all four core components — controllers, drivers, motors, and reducers — and has created an ultra-lightweight humanoid robotic arm with fully independent intellectual property rights. Its products are currently widely used in new retail, new food service, commercial services, intelligent inspection, healthcare, inspection and quarantine, education and research, industrial production, and aerospace.

Yunqi Capital's Perspective

Yunqi Capital has always focused on "technology innovation, industrial empowerment." Robotics is a key sector that Yunqi has long believed in and continued to invest in. Over the past few years, Yunqi has invested in a series of outstanding projects in robotics and core components, including Keenon Robotics, Chaowei Technology, Dafang Intelligence, Quanyu Automation, Yizao Technology, and Zhigu Tianchu.

Chen Yu, Partner at Yunqi Capital, stated: "Yunqi Capital has been deeply cultivating the service robotics sector since 2016, witnessing the industry's evolution from 1.0-era delivery robots that replaced human legs, to 2.0-era inspection robots that replaced human eyes and brains. We firmly believe that the 3.0 era of service robotics will build upon these foundations by adding compound robots that replace human hands, creating a complete closed-loop capability of perception, analytical decision-making, and operational execution — thereby addressing global labor shortages on a broader and deeper scale. RealMan's underlying R&D capabilities in core components have redefined robotic arms for general service scenarios. We are optimistic about the explosive potential of the service market and RealMan's highly differentiated product and technical capabilities, and look forward to working with RealMan to drive ecosystem prosperity for ultra-lightweight humanoid robotic arms in the service sector, ultimately bringing robots into every household."

Large Models + Robotics: Brains + Hands, Filling the Gap in "Humanoid Robotic Arms"

Large models + robotics has become a clear future trend. The "brain" capabilities of large models have grown increasingly sophisticated, but "humanoid robotic arms" that can actually complete physical execution actions still represent a massive market gap. These humanoid arms differ dramatically from traditional industrial robotic arms — they need to perform everyday tasks like humans, requiring extreme generalization and accessibility, flexibility, light weight, and easy deployment. Only a new generation of robotic arms that meets the criteria of ultra-lightweight, ultra-flexible, humanoid, low-cost, safe and efficient, and easy to use can satisfy this demand.

RealMan is the world's first company to define the ultra-lightweight humanoid robotic arm, creating products that are ultra-lightweight, flexible, humanoid, ultra-high cost-performance, safe and efficient, and low-barrier to use. To ensure the robotic arm better fits ordinary users' scenarios, RealMan adopted a full-chain, strongly coupled design approach for core components, achieving extreme performance: the body weighs 6 kg (7.2 kg including controller), with a rated payload of 5 kg, a payload-to-weight ratio of 1:1.2, and maximum payload of 9 kg.

Software-Hardware Integration: Self-Developed Foundation, Multi-Scenario Solutions Already in Place

Robotic arm intelligence is both a trend and an opportunity. To capture this vast market opportunity, RealMan proactively established AI Labs to explore "embodied AI", building the VRI platform that turns the robotic arm into an entry point for virtual and physical interaction. It has already achieved practical applications in multiple scenarios, and in a short time has developed a series of application solutions including dual-arm compound robots, dual-arm lifting robots, single-arm compound robots, and compound lifting robots.

Beyond the hardware itself, RealMan's self-developed kinematics and dynamics algorithms are highly coupled with the robotic arm, ensuring that the built-in low-cost embedded controller system can simultaneously and stably run kinematics, dynamics, logic processing, user interfaces, safety monitoring, and all other functions — maintaining the robotic arm's flexibility, stability, and ease of operation while also possessing powerful expansion capabilities and wireless communication functions.