Simplexity Robotics

Simplexity Robotics (至简动力) is an embodied-intelligence startup founded by CEO Peng Jia , built around the premise that "simple is scalable" — applying a unified, minimal framework to hardware, models and data pipelines rather than tackling robotics problems in fragmented pieces . The company pursues a "four O" technical architecture (one model, on device, one body, one hour) and has developed LaST, a foundation model that fuses world-model reasoning with VLA action generation, plus ManualVLA for long-horizon task planning — the latter accepted at CVPR 2026 .

The company has moved fast on both product and capital: it closed five funding rounds within six months, raising RMB 2 billion in total, with a post-money valuation exceeding $1 billion less than five months after founding . Backers include BlueRun Ventures, which invested from the earliest rounds and has re-upped continuously , as well as Gaorong Ventures (which led a recent round) , Sequoia China, Vision Plus Capital, Legend Capital, and strategic investors including Alibaba Group . Peng frames the firm's differentiation as systematic execution — borrowing automotive-grade manufacturing discipline and maintaining radical internal transparency around strategy — while pursuing global markets from the outset on the logic that overseas labour costs make embodied-AI ROI work sooner .