Weilai Buyuan
未来不远
Weilai Buyuan (未来不远, "Future Not Far") is a home-robotics startup founded by Zhang Yi, positioning itself as a maker of general-purpose consumer home robots. The company took an unusual path: three years in stealth without fundraising, during which it placed robots in 300 real Shanghai households and used long-term household scenario data to iterate the product, before releasing its next-generation home robot F2 in April 2026 . It closed a 200-million-yuan angel round in January 2026, led by ZhenFund with participation from Lianxin Capital, Yuanlai Capital and some existing Zhangmen shareholders — Zhang Yi has framed the bet as "robot technology can only be fully tested in real scenarios" . ZhenFund later listed it among its EAI (embodied AI) deployment exemplars of 2025 .
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