ZhuLing Tech Raises Another Eight-Figure USD Pre-A Round, Achieves 0.5mm Tile-Laying Precision | BlueRun Ventures

**Recently, Nanjing Zhuling Technology Co., Ltd. ("Zhuling Technology") completed a Pre-A funding round of tens of millions of US dollars. The round was led by Shunwei Capital, with follow-on investments from existing shareholder BlueRun Ventures and Beijing Hanjian Group. The proceeds will be used primarily for team expansion, product line diversification, and building out manufacturing and sales infrastructure. BlueRun Ventures was the sole investor in Zhuling Technology's seed round.

While the broader real estate sector has entered the second half of a structural transition, its upstream construction industry continues to climb steadily — driven by new infrastructure initiatives under the 14th Five-Year Plan. In 2023, the sector generated over 31 trillion yuan in output value and employed more than 50 million workers, making it one of the most consequential pillars of China's real economy. Yet as cost efficiency and productivity come under increasing pressure, the global construction industry faces a critical pain point: soaring labor costs and urgent demand for automation. Productivity and workforce stability need improvement, and construction robots capable of high-precision operations in complex environments are becoming an industry necessity — poised to emerge as a new quality productive force in construction.

Founded in August 2022, Zhuling Technology fields a team with a rare combination of deep robotics engineering expertise and domain knowledge in construction. Core members have been immersed in construction robotics since 2019, amassing extensive industry experience. The dozens-strong team holds multiple industry-first invention patents, placing it at the forefront of R&D innovation, with shorter decision paths and greater agility. Founder and CEO Angang Dai previously served as VP of listed company Estun Automation and VP of robotics at Country Garden's Bozhilin subsidiary, making him a key figure in advancing construction robotics in China. He is now leading Zhuling Technology to become a pioneering force in the industry.

Addressing the vast and enduring construction market, Zhuling Technology has maintained a clear positioning from day one, anchoring its strategy on complete construction robot products while actively pushing innovation boundaries. By focusing on core components and adopting a model of in-house R&D paired with outsourced manufacturing, the company has achieved high product maturity with lower peripheral hardware costs. It has built a long-term, systematic industrial ecosystem that will support a multi-product matrix, offering the market diverse new options.

Detail design is a defining measure of product quality. Zhuling Technology's self-developed floor-tiling robot features a leading technical architecture, achieving heterogeneous collaborative control on the robot body itself — enabling simultaneous movement and operation for higher efficiency. Its technological sophistication and product competitiveness are industry-leading.

The product also integrates multiple innovative elements at the core technology level. The controller's operational trajectory precision reaches world-leading standards. By fusing multi-modal control technologies including visual guidance and navigation positioning, the robot achieves high versatility, environmental adaptability, durability, and reliability. It can operate in complex, non-standard construction scenarios, rapidly localizing itself on uneven ground and in dusty, high-humidity environments, reconstructing Cartesian and joint-space trajectory planning to maintain operational deviation within 0.5 millimeters. This high accuracy ensures overall tiling quality and completeness far exceeding that of typical craftsmen, with clear innovation spillover effects.

Beyond R&D and application, Zhuling Technology is committed to expanding use cases for construction robots. Building on its autonomous tile-laying robot, the product's highly flexible modules allow adjustable gap spacing during end-effector tiling operations. Combined with digital processing of construction techniques, the robot can quickly draw from its database to accurately identify and properly mix materials — accounting for the construction industry's highly variable, non-standardized materials in terms of color and properties — achieving perfectly level cement-sand mortar application. This flexible operational capability delivers ground coverage rates of 90–95% in public infrastructure projects and 75–85% in fine-decoration residential projects. The product's operational maturity and scenario value have already gained recognition from leading industry players including China Construction Eighth Engineering Division and Shanghai Construction Group.

Zhuling Technology is also actively expanding overseas to provide more precise and efficient solutions globally. In countries like Singapore, where construction worker numbers are declining year by year and labor shortages are severe, the market for construction robots is enormous. Leveraging advanced automated production equipment and technology, the company has already secured batch orders. With capital support, Zhuling Technology is well-positioned to better serve overseas demand for high-quality construction robots, continuously empowering the industry to replace humans in highly repetitive and dangerous work, driving the non-standardized construction sector toward high-quality development, and capturing a blue ocean market with potential scale exceeding one trillion yuan.

BlueRun Ventures commented:

Based on the traditional trillion-scale construction industry, we believe intelligent construction robotics represents a direction with tremendous innovation potential. The Zhuling team brings long-accumulated experience and impressive innovative insight to both robotics underlying module development and intelligent construction robot product definition. The team has consistently pursued a product strategy focused on hit products while continuously driving underlying module innovation. Their newly defined robot products have begun landing in overseas markets, receiving very positive feedback from local industry partners during initial testing.

We believe that as China's macroeconomic environment improves and the real estate and construction sectors recover rapidly, the domestic intelligent construction robot market will enter a new wave of rapid growth. We are very optimistic about the long-term development potential of construction robots in the global market.

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