Poke Robotics

Poke Robotics (破壳机器人) is a home-embodied-intelligence startup founded by Huazhe Xu, a Tsinghua Electronic Engineering alumnus who traces his research lineage back to the 2012 AlexNet era . In April 2026, Yunqi Capital led the company's angel round of "tens of millions of dollars" — the first deployment from the Jiao Tong–Yunqi AI Angel Fund — with Xu and his first investor, Yunqi executive director Sang Yu, publicly framing 2026 as the inflection point when embodied intelligence climbs toward household applications . The firm sits within Yunqi's broader AI-to-application portfolio alongside industrial and infrastructure bets .