XYZ Robotics

XYZ Robotics (星猿哲科技) is a Shanghai-based robotics company founded in 2018 by CMU robotics PhD Zhou Jiaji, MIT EECS PhD Yu Guanting, and Peking University master's graduate Xing Lianglibo . The team emerged from the Amazon Robotics Challenge, where they were reportedly the only group to place in the global top three for three consecutive years .

The company specializes in hand-eye coordination for industrial and logistics automation, combining deep learning, 3D geometric vision, motion planning, and a patented quick-change end-effector system to handle unregistered, variably shaped items without prior product information . Its stated vision is "Pick anything. Place anywhere anyway" .

XYZ Robotics raised nearly $8 million in Series A funding led by Gaorong Ventures and Morningside in 2019 , followed by a roughly $20 million Series A+ in 2020 , a $35 million Series B led by Capital Today in 2021 , and a nearly $40 million Series B+ in 2022 also led by Capital Today, bringing total funding to over $100 million . Gaorong Ventures and 5Y Capital have backed multiple rounds .

As of 2022 reporting, the company was deploying solutions for piece picking, mixed-case palletizing, and industrial machine tending across e-commerce, logistics, consumer goods, pharmaceutical, and other sectors, claiming metrics like 99.9% accuracy and two-year payback periods on certain installations . Co-founder Xing Lianglibo, speaking in a 2025 article, described the company as targeting relatively standardized logistics scenarios in the B2B space and emphasized the importance of product-market fit for embodied-intelligence robotics .