5Y News｜D-Robotics Closes $120 Million Series B1 Funding Round
D-Robotics announced it recently completed a $120 million Series B1 funding round.
D-Robotics recently announced the completion of a $120 million Series B1 funding round. Following its $100 million Series A round in 2025, the company's total raised across both rounds now stands at $220 million.
This round brought together a top-tier investment consortium. Leading strategic investors including Synstellation Capital, DiDi, and Meituan Longzhu joined as new investors, alongside strategic institutions such as Borui Capital, Joyoung Family Office, Yongning Gaoxin, BAIC Capital, Jiukun Venture Capital, Xinlian Capital, and Yarui Capital. First-tier financial investors including Jinqiu Fund, Xingrui Capital, Monad Ventures, Gengxin Capital, and Yunbai Capital also participated. Meanwhile, existing shareholders Hillhouse, Vertex Growth (Temasek's fund), Linear Capital, Hermitage Capital, Huangpu River Capital, 5Y Capital, and Plum Ventures all exercised their pro-rata rights and invested additional capital.
This financing — combining industry giants, core strategic investors, and top-tier institutions — will fully support D-Robotics' full-stack hardware and software R&D and product iteration, strengthening its embodied intelligence-native technology foundation built on hardware-software synergy and edge-cloud integration, and driving the industry toward scaled, democratized development through systematic infrastructure.
Leading from Compute to Scenarios: Becoming the "Greatest Common Divisor" for All Categories of Hit Robot Products
As the "greatest common divisor of the robotics industry" spanning all robot categories and the full cycle from technology R&D to scaled mass production, D-Robotics addresses three differentiated market needs: mass-produced robot products, ubiquitous innovative robot applications, and future-facing general-purpose embodied intelligent robots. The company has built a comprehensive product system from chips to algorithms to software, with complete coverage across the 5–560 TOPS* compute range, horizontally spanning edge computing needs for humanoid robots, wheeled-legged robots, quadruped robot dogs, service companion robots, logistics AMRs, and other full scenarios, while vertically connecting the complete chain from cutting-edge technology innovation to mass production deployment. This has yielded substantial commercial and ecosystem results.
Over the past year, D-Robotics has worked in deep partnership with industry-leading customers to produce a string of hit products, continuously building multiple industry benchmark products in core scenarios including robot vacuums, drones, robot dogs, and desktop companions: enabling Cloud Whale's Xiaoyao 002 to pioneer the AI binocular perception era for robot vacuums; empowering Insta360 to create the world's first panoramic drone, the Yingling Antigravity A1, redefining the flight brain; and supporting VITA Dynamics in launching its intelligent companion robot dog, redefining the home intelligence partner. Supported by full-chain development infrastructure, D-Robotics continues to drive generational leaps in intelligent experience for robot products.
Shared Technology Roots, Strategic Synergy: Accelerating the "Embodied Intelligence-Native" Technology Foundation
The robotics industry is currently entering a critical development cycle of rapid core technology innovation, explosive scaled mass production, and deep penetration of segmented scenarios. As Horizon Robotics' most important strategic partner in the robotics domain, D-Robotics maintains a deep collaborative relationship built on shared technology roots and strategic synergy, with the vision of "becoming the Wintel of the robotics era" and a commitment to providing the optimal solution for intelligent robotics development.
Leveraging Horizon Robotics' BPU intelligent computing architecture — validated through tens of millions of units in mass production — alongside industry-leading Foundation Model capabilities, D-Robotics focuses on building chip, algorithm, and software systems natively designed and deeply optimized for robotics scenarios. By creating an "embodied intelligence-native" technology foundation with hardware-software synergy and edge-cloud integration, the company employs a new computing paradigm of hardware-software collaboration and a full-chain development platform covering everything from simulation validation to physical deployment, continuously lowering industry development barriers and accelerating the evolution and scaled deployment of robotic intelligence.
- Effective TOPS with 1/2 Sparsity, TPP (Total Processing Performance) < 4800
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