BlueRun Ventures Seed Project Proto-Sentient Intelligence Raises Over $100 Million to Accelerate Embodied Artificial Intelligence Commercialization

Proto-Sentient Intelligence, a BlueRun Ventures seed portfolio company, recently closed a new funding round exceeding $100 million, backed by state capital, industrial investors, and multiple funds. This marks dual authoritative validation of Proto-Sentient Intelligence's technical approach and commercial value by both the state capital system and industry end-users, formally establishing a three-dimensional development framework of "national policy guidance + industrial scenario deployment + long-term capital support."

This round will focus on two core priorities: first, continuing to advance frontier embodied AI technology, adhering to the human data approach, and deepening world model R&D iterations; second, accelerating commercial deployment in logistics and advanced manufacturing scenarios, driving the translation of technical achievements into industrial value.

Proto-Sentient Intelligence was founded by Dr. Qibin Wang, who brings nearly 20 years of product and industry operations experience. Its core team brings together veteran robotics industry professionals and top scientists, and the company co-established the Peking University–Proto-Sentient Intelligence Embodied Dexterous Manipulation Joint Laboratory with Peking University — making it one of the embodied AI teams with the highest "scientist density" in the industry.**

BlueRun Ventures was the lead investor in Proto-Sentient Intelligence's first round. As early as the company's founding in 2024, BlueRun recognized the potential of Proto-Sentient Intelligence's path from reinforcement learning and embodied models toward conquering dexterous manipulation and reaching real industrial scenarios. BlueRun congratulates Proto-Sentient Intelligence on completing this new funding round and looks forward to the team continuing to do the hard but right things, enabling robots to truly enter industry and solve complex real-world problems.

Proto-Sentient Intelligence leverages Wuhu's position as the country's first national-level robotics industry cluster development pilot zone, with its complete industrial chain advantages enabling rapid connection to over 300 upstream and downstream supporting enterprises. Building on Wuhu's role as a comprehensive transportation and logistics hub in the Yangtze River Delta that connects east to west and north to south, the company's products can efficiently reach national and global markets.

Tuopu Group is a core Tier-1 supplier for Tesla's entire vehicle lineup, while also deeply deploying humanoid robot core actuator R&D and mass production, with full-chain intelligent manufacturing production lines covering complete vehicle manufacturing and precision machining, plus deep industrial scenario accumulation; Chery Holding's Ruicheng Fund is a professional industrial investment platform focused on new energy and intelligent connected vehicle industry chains, deeply integrated with automotive manufacturing's full industrial chain ecosystem resources, with rich industrial layout and post-investment empowerment experience in advanced manufacturing and intelligent technology; Lens Technology is a leading enterprise in consumer electronics precision manufacturing, with large-scale high-end intelligent manufacturing production lines, deep scenario and technical accumulation in non-standard operations such as 3C product precision assembly and inspection, and is a core force driving intelligent manufacturing upgrades across the industry.

This round's investors are leading industrial players and professional investment institutions, motivated by full recognition and long-term confidence in Proto-Sentient Intelligence's dexterous manipulation core technology, data flywheel moat, and the company's commercialization capabilities in logistics and industrial scenarios. They will inject industrial scenario resources covering automotive manufacturing, precision machining, and modern logistics, comprehensively accelerating the deployment of technical achievements.

Proto-Sentient Intelligence remains focused on embodied brain core technology, self-developing a dual-system hybrid architecture combining the Psi-R2 operation policy model and Psi-W0 action-conditioned world model. Psi-R2 takes vision, language, and proprioceptive state as inputs to complete long-horizon task decomposition and continuous action planning, enabling end-to-end driving of robots for complex dexterous operations; Psi-W0 models the operating laws of the physical world to predict, evaluate, and optimize action trajectories. The synergy between both models significantly improves task generalization and operational robustness in unstructured scenarios.**

Following this funding round, the company's core investment will focus on world model R&D breakthroughs. To support world model iteration, the company will further expand human data collection scale, optimize data pipelines, accelerate the layout and construction of data collection facilities across locations, solidifying a high-quality data supply foundation, and leveraging model capabilities to accelerate commercial deployment in logistics and advanced manufacturing scenarios, driving the translation of technical achievements into industrial value.**

Dr. Qibin Wang, Founder and CEO of Proto-Sentient Intelligence, stated: "We sincerely thank all investors for their trust. This funding round is recognition of Proto-Sentient Intelligence's technical approach and commercialization practice. We will continue to deepen our efforts, accelerate product iteration and large-scale scenario deployment, and create tangible industrial value."

To date, Proto-Sentient Intelligence has completed multiple funding rounds, building a diverse shareholder matrix encompassing national-level capital, local state capital, industrial leaders, and market-based institutions. Going forward, the company will continue to take technological innovation as its core, continuously attract top talent, constantly push the boundaries of embodied AI dexterous manipulation technology, and drive humanoid robots from laboratories into thousands of industries, providing solid technical support for China's real economy intelligent transformation. Dexterous manipulation will create enormous value in the near future, and Proto-Sentient Intelligence will continue to explore this path, persisting in doing the hard but right things.**

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