BlueRun Ventures Leads Investment as Critical Point AGILINK Closes Two Consecutive Funding Rounds | BlueRun Family

Recently, AGILINK, the dexterous-hand subsidiary of AgiBot, completed two consecutive funding rounds, co-led by BlueRun Ventures and Hillhouse, with further strategic financing in the pipeline. As a critical piece of the AgiBot ecosystem, AGILINK will operate as an independent entity, defining the "last 10 centimeters" for embodied intelligence entering factories and homes through its "full product matrix + full-stack dexterous data + universal ecosystem" — breaking through the critical point for artificial general intelligence (AGI) in the physical world.

BlueRun Ventures stated: "As the critical interface extending embodied intelligence into the physical world, the dexterous hand is the crown jewel of the robotics technology stack. Its R&D and manufacturing require integrating multiple disciplines — mechanics, electronics, computing, software, and materials — creating high barriers to entry both technically and commercially. AGILINK's sustained investment in product innovation, engineering iteration, mass production validation, and real-world scenario闭环 reflects the team's deep understanding of industrial value. We look forward to the company further developing data and system capabilities centered on dexterous hands, accelerating humanoid robots toward 'general operational intelligence,' and becoming essential infrastructure in the embodied intelligence era."

The dexterous hand represents the most formidable challenge in humanoid robotics — it determines both the upper limit of application intelligence and the lower limit of physical practicality. As the most complex component in humanoid robots, dexterous hands account for 20% of total machine cost while harboring a hundred-billion-yuan market opportunity. In 2025, AgiBot topped global humanoid robot shipments. Entering 2026, leading humanoid robot manufacturers are racing to scale production, core scenarios are accelerating toward deployment, and the competitive focus of embodied intelligence has shifted to "strong operational capability" — with dexterous hands becoming the primary battleground. Leveraging its three core advantages in product technology, mass production engineering, and universal ecosystem, AGILINK is positioned to define industry standards for dexterous hands, break through first at this inflection point, and secure a leading market position.

For a long time, the global dexterous hand market existed as high-cost, low-volume "research equipment." Backed by AgiBot, AGILINK has pioneered the scaled application of dexterous hands on humanoid robots, successfully penetrating core scenarios including industrial manufacturing, logistics sorting, data collection and training, education and research, and entertainment/commercial performances. It has established a positive闭环 of "real-world scenario feedback + rapid product iteration," creating a dual-wheel drive synergy of "hand + body," becoming the dexterous hand manufacturer that best understands end-user needs. In 2025, the team achieved mass production and shipment of multiple dexterous hand models, with quarterly sales in the thousands of units, setting industry records and accompanied by rapidly growing orders; in 2026, AGILINK's shipments will achieve a cliff-like lead, topping industry market share at #1, leading dexterous hands from "laboratory samples" into the "mass production era."

LG robot equipped with AGILINK dexterous hand demonstration (CES 2026)

In real-world applications, different tasks impose fundamentally different requirements on dexterous hand degrees of freedom, form factors, and precision. Unlike manufacturers focused on single models, AGILINK is the industry's only enterprise capable of covering full scenarios with a full product matrix. This capability stems from long-term insight into scenario patterns: when complexity reaches a certain threshold, technology inevitably converges toward a product architecture of "multiple versions matching multiple scenarios." Under this technical path, AGILINK's dexterous hand products simultaneously achieve performance advantages and cost competitiveness across multiple key scenarios, maintaining leadership through a rhythm of "mass-producing one generation, developing one generation, pre-researching one generation." Beyond hardware, AGILINK has further built systemic moats in data and algorithms. Through highly adaptable, cost-effective dexterous hand products, combined with an open ecosystem and AgiBot's professional data platform, it has formed a stable data collection flywheel and unified data foundation, accelerating toward the ultimate form of dexterous intelligent manipulation.

Though outsiders may view AGILINK as a "born in Rome" beneficiary — with technology and industrial tailwinds converging at precisely the right moment — the team understands that the real challenges lie ahead: what will determine the industry's future is not a single stunning laboratory demonstration, but whether it can sustainably, reliably, and cost-effectively deliver "operational capability"闭环 in the complex real world. An AGILINK executive noted: "The dexterous manipulation we see today is just the tip of the iceberg. The industry's true 'critical point' is not a leap in model parameters, but the moment when hardware, perception, control, algorithms, and data truly fuse as one — that will bring a qualitative transformation to general-purpose robotics and define the industrial landscape for the next decade."

Leveraging AgiBot's systematic validation and large-scale real-world scenarios, AGILINK's product performance, delivery capability, and quality system have been thoroughly proven. Standing on the shoulders of this giant, AGILINK is gaining acceleration and approaching its true takeoff moment.

About AGILINK

AGILINK brings together seasoned product, technology, and process experts from top global technology companies, with deep expertise in complex electromechanical system R&D, cutting-edge algorithm ecosystem construction, and end-to-end intelligent control, plus experience taking products from zero to million-scale launches. Going forward, the company will continue releasing premium products for full scenarios, building a full-stack algorithm and data ecosystem for dexterous hands, and accelerating global market expansion — leading industry innovation, building the #1 dexterous hand brand, with the mission of "empowering robots, accelerating intelligent productivity into thousands of industries," driving the leap forward in robotic capabilities and ushering in the era of embodied intelligence.

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