5Y News | Noitom Robotics Completes Pre-A+ Funding Round
Accelerating the construction of data infrastructure for the embodied intelligence era.
Noitom Robotics recently announced the completion of its Pre-A+ funding round. The round was led by Qiming Venture Partners, with participation from 5Y Capital, Legend Capital, and other institutions. Matrix Partners China and Inno Angel Fund made additional investments, and the round was oversubscribed. Following the Pre-A round led by Alpha Startups and this latest round, Noitom Robotics has raised a cumulative total of several hundred million RMB.
The proceeds will be primarily directed toward continued R&D investment in multimodal data collection, processing, and delivery technologies for embodied intelligence; accelerating the buildout of scalable data production systems and engineering platforms; and further strengthening core technical and engineering team capabilities to enhance productized delivery and service capacity — laying a solid foundation for Noitom Robotics' long-term global development.
On this funding round, Dr. Ruoli Dai, founder of Noitom Robotics and a veteran technical expert in motion capture and human-computer interaction, said: "This represents not just validation of our technical direction, but a vote for long-termism. We're grateful to our investors for trusting a 'robot company that doesn't build robots,' and we'll repay that trust through sustained technology investment and product and service capabilities."
Liu Kai, Partner at 5Y Capital, said: "2025 is the year when the entire embodied intelligence industry is just beginning to show signs of data thirst, and this will become a consensus pain point for the industry in the years ahead. The Noitom Robotics team was among the earliest to recognize this. The team possesses end-to-end data supply capabilities and exceptional data industrialization capacity. Dr. Ruoli Dai is also one of the industry's perennial KOLs, with top-tier technical vision and global industry coverage. We believe Noitom Robotics will be the most critical infrastructure supplier for the Embodied AI industry and will significantly advance the development of embodied intelligence."
Noitom Robotics is a data company serving the embodied intelligence and humanoid robotics industry. With "data" as its core deliverable, the company provides high-quality, scalable training data and related infrastructure capabilities to robotics companies and embodied intelligence model teams. As the embodied intelligence industry accelerates, high-quality, multimodal training data is becoming a critical foundational element driving industry progress.
Prior to founding Noitom Robotics, Dr. Ruoli Dai co-founded Noitom Ltd., where he spent over a decade advancing human motion digitization. As the head of technology and product, he helped the company capture 70% of the global professional motion capture market share and successfully delivered tens of thousands of motion capture systems, establishing industry leadership.
In serving robotics and embodied intelligence clients, Dr. Dai and his team observed a structural shift in industry data demands: data acquisition, structuring, and engineering capabilities are becoming critical determinants of embodied intelligence system performance ceilings. The industry is rapidly moving from small-volume data demands oriented toward "demonstration or content production" toward large-volume, scalably deliverable data demands aimed at training. Based on assessments of industry ceilings and business models, Noitom Robotics chose to enter from the foundational layer of data infrastructure, focusing on building industry-facing technology and platform capabilities.
Noitom Robotics focuses on scalable, cross-embodiment reusable real-world data — from ultra-high-precision, ultra-full-modality in-the-factory collection data to in-the-wild data collected in real environments for visual generalization — exploring a human-centric data pathway to enhance data generalization value and long-term usability. The company is progressively advancing "data factory" engineering construction globally, gradually forming differentiated advantages: leveraging mature motion capture and human-computer interaction technology systems to achieve high-precision capture of complex human behaviors; structuring and standardizing behavioral data to refine data processing and delivery pipelines and improve scalable production efficiency; and building infrastructure capabilities for cross-embodiment mapping and data utilization support, adaptable to various embodiments and different levels of training demands. Noitom Robotics' capabilities have been validated through delivery practices serving dozens of humanoid robotics companies and embodied intelligence model clients globally.
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