Astribot
星尘智能
Astribot (星尘智能) is a Shenzhen-based embodied AI company founded in December 2022 by Lai Jie — a robotics veteran with 16 years of R&D experience who was the first employee of Tencent's robotics lab and led Baidu's "Xiaodu robot" team — with Fang Ke as co-founder and CFO . Its flagship product is the Astribot S1, a cable-driven humanoid designed to mimic human tendon motion, which the company bills as having the strongest manipulation performance in its class and which it claims made it the first in the industry to mass-produce cable-driven AI robots . The company has moved fast commercially: after a Pre-A round of tens of millions of dollars led by Matrix Partners in mid-2024 (Yunqi Capital had led the angel round in 2023 and kept adding), it raised a several-hundred-million RMB A++ round in late 2025 and a Series B of over 1 billion RMB by mid-2026, landing what was described as one of China's first thousand-unit industrial humanoid orders with SEER Robotics and partnerships with ByteDance, Tencent, Baidu, and JD.com . On the research side, it co-published the CLAP framework with Tsinghua, HKU, and MIT, and more recently released SmoothRL, which lifted its dynamic throwing success rate from 39% to 94% .
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On August 8, the **2025 World Robot Conference (WRC)** opened in Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area. As one of the largest and most influential events in the global robotics sector, this year's WRC is themed "Making Robots Smarter, Making Embodied Intelligence More Intelligent," bringing together **over 1,500 exhibits from more than 200 domestic and international robotics companies**, including 100 new products making their debut.
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➤➤ On May 25, 2025, **"Tsinghua EEA · Industry Connect Afternoon Tea #012 — Exploring Embodied Intelligence in the Greater Bay Area"**, co-organized by Yunqi Capital, successfully concluded in Shenzhen. The event was hosted by the Tsinghua University Alumni Association Electronic Engineering Department Branch, the International Center for Advanced Technology Application Promotion (Shenzhen), and the Shenzhen Tsinghua University Alumni Association Electronic Engineering Department Branch. **Over 40 Tsinghua EEA alumni** deeply involved in embodied intelligence gathered in Shenzhen.
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In recent years, as the healthcare industry has yet to emerge from the capital winter, most investment firms have grown more cautious. Dalton Venture, however, has remained active on the investment front thanks to its distinctive strategy and deep understanding of the sector. Recently, **Sun Qi, founding and managing partner of Dalton Venture, sat down with 21st Century Business Herald for an exclusive interview, sharing his unique insights into healthcare industry trends and his confidence and determination to navigate through cycles.**
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Vol.05 Has AI "Woken Up" the Robots? A Look at the Many Applications and Bottlenecks of Embodied Intelligence
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Yunqi Capital | Embarking on Embodied Intelligence: Angel-Round Portfolio Company Astribot Unveils Next-Generation AI Robot Astribot S1
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