"Astribot Closes Tens of Millions of Dollars in Pre-A Funding, Dalton Venture Bets on AI Robotics to Accelerate Commercialization | Dalton Venture News"

Preface

Recently, AI robotics company Astribot announced the completion of a tens-of-millions-of-dollars Pre-A funding round, with Dalton Venture making a strategic entry into the AI robotics track. The proceeds will be used for top-tier talent recruitment, R&D investment, and commercial deployment. The company focuses on developing a new generation of AI robots, and in April this year showcased major progress on its first self-developed AI robot, the Astribot S1.

Founded in December 2022 in Shenzhen, Astribot is committed to enabling billions of people to have AI robot assistants, advancing its vision of human-machine coexistence, co-creation, and mutual benefit. The company focuses on developing "the new generation's most capable AI robot assistant," capable of learning, thinking, and working like a human, engaging in fluid and intelligent interaction with people, using human tools and equipment, and helping people complete tedious, difficult, or dangerous tasks — continuously expanding the boundaries of application scenarios and achieving general-purpose operation capabilities across diverse settings, leading the "AI + robotics" technology revolution.

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First-of-Its-Kind AI Software-Hardware Integrated System Architecture,

Comprehensive Coverage of Complex Scenarios

In April this year, Astribot showcased major progress on its self-developed AI robot, the Astribot S1. S1 is an embodied humanoid robot with comprehensive manipulation capabilities. Supported by multimodal large models, S1 autonomously completes complex tasks such as folding clothes, sorting items, wok-tossing stir-fry, vacuum cleaning, and sport stacking — with the agility, flexibility, and smoothness comparable to an adult — through intelligent human-robot interaction. It can continuously learn and evolve, constantly improving task generalization and transfer capabilities to comprehensively cover all kinds of complex scenarios.

Image source: Astribot

Astribot has introduced an industry-first AI-oriented software-hardware integrated system architecture, deeply combining artificial intelligence with robotics technology, laying the foundation for embodied intelligence technology and core competitive advantages.

On the AI capability front, the S1 robot possesses a supremely powerful "brain," with perception, cognition, and real-time decision-making capabilities in complex environments, intelligent understanding and multimodal interactive execution abilities, achieving general-purpose operational generalization at the object, task, and environment levels.

At the same time, Astribot has achieved a key breakthrough in embodied intelligence data acquisition, able to cost-effectively and efficiently utilize existing real-world video data and human motion data, and through first-person perspective efficiently collect multi-dimensional high-quality data, enabling human-like multimodal data interaction across vision, touch, hearing, and force sensing. The S1 robot demonstrates exceptional ability to understand and analyze like a human and interact fluidly with people, and through massive data-driven continuous learning and evolution, will constantly improve its intelligence and multi-task generalization capabilities, gradually achieving general intelligence.

On the robot hardware front, based on a novel rigid-flexible coupled transmission mechanism design, it achieves high manipulation performance at low cost, giving S1 the "strongest manipulation performance" among robots of comparable specifications.

The company emphasizes human-like upper-body capabilities, with deep technical accumulation in both robot hardware and embodied intelligence algorithms. On the hardware side, it adopts a rigid-flexible coupled technical approach, designing human-like robotic arms that match human manipulation capabilities. On the embodied intelligence side, it employs imitation learning plus reinforcement learning training methods, combining vision, touch, and force sensing to achieve generalization effects.

Jie Lai stated: "Our goal is to let billions of people have AI robot assistants. A new generation of AI robots that can learn, think, and work like humans, that can use human tools and equipment, help people complete tedious, difficult, or dangerous tasks, and even adapt to environments and changes — thus truly caring for the young and old at home. Such a world will require millions, even billions of robots."

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Technology-Driven Cost Reduction Accelerates Scenario Deployment,

Already Partnering with Numerous Industry Leaders

Through rigid-flexible coupled design and a "force-centric" innovative force planning algorithm, the company ensures high flexibility, high compliance, and high interaction safety in its movements. With self-developed key components and clear cost advantages, it lays the groundwork for scenario deployment. The company is already collaborating with leading well-known enterprises and institutions in scientific research, logistics and warehousing, intelligent manufacturing, laboratory automation, retail and consumer services, elderly care and companionship, and personalized education.

The company expects to complete the launch of its first-generation product in the near future, and to achieve commercialization within 2024. Going forward, it will continue iterating products based on the "most capable AI robot assistant" concept, constantly expanding the boundaries of application scenarios.

Dalton Venture stated: Astribot's innovations and breakthroughs in the AI robotics field not only demonstrate the company's strong technical capabilities, but also signal enormous future market potential. We are very optimistic about the company's approach of starting from upper-body manipulation with high technical barriers and strong market demand, having built an advanced robot manipulation large model at the software level. At the same time, we have full confidence in the Astribot team's AI expertise and hardware capabilities. We look forward to Astribot continuing to lead innovation in the embodied intelligence industry, constantly breaking through technical boundaries, and creating greater value for users and society.

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