Sudu Tech
苏度科技
Sudu Tech is a Chinese embodied-AI robotics startup that debuted its first product, the Sudo R1 robot system, in April 2026. The system is built on full-stack in-house hardware and software, and the company claims it achieved a 98% first-attempt grasp success rate in zero-shot demonstrations on previously unseen objects — including transparent, metallic, and soft items — without any real-world training data . BlueRun Ventures, which joined Sudu's Pre-A round in September 2025, described the debut as a "blockbuster" in a piece published that month .
The company's investor roster includes CATL's Puquan Capital, Alibaba, Hillhouse, Tencent, Ant Group, IDG Capital, BlueRun Ventures, and Fudan University Science and Technology Innovation, among others . Su Hao, who returned to China to become a distinguished professor at Fudan University and director of the Institute of General Physical Intelligence, serves as Sudu's chief technology advisor .
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