HeTan Intelligence
合碳智能
HeTan Intelligence (合碳智能, also known as C12.ai) is a Chinese startup building embodied-intelligence robots for pharmaceutical R&D labs . Founded and led by Zhigang Chen, a veteran of internet healthcare and pharma who previously served as chief architect at Alibaba Health, founded Tencent Medical Big Data Lab, and was WuXi AppTec's first chief digital officer . The company was an angel-round investment of Yunqi Capital, which featured it alongside Stardust Intelligence and RealMan Intelligence at its 2024 embodied-intelligence demo day .
In March 2026, HeTan raised 50 million yuan in a funding round that included Eminence Ventures as a co-investor, with Yunqi Capital again participating . The company's robot system Talos, built on a proprietary VLA (vision-language-action) architecture, had by then completed over 3,000 experimental operations across 50 days in real lab environments with zero errors, demonstrating skill levels approaching senior medicinal chemists .
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