ENCOS, a humanoid robot startup, has closed a tens-of-millions-of-yuan angel round led by Oasis Capital | Oasis Capital Leads

In September 2024, Nanjing INX Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "INX") announced the completion of a tens of millions of RMB angel funding round, led by Oasis Capital, with Waterwood Capital and Ralph Ventures participating. A spokesperson for Oasis Capital said: "We have full confidence in INX's innovation capabilities and rapid responsiveness. As the embodied intelligence robotics market expands, modular joint actuators are becoming increasingly critical to industry development. With its outstanding joint design and strong production capacity, INX not only provides the industry with efficient hardware solutions but also flexibly meets customers' customization needs, enabling rapid iterative growth in this emerging field — a testament to its creativity and vitality. We believe INX will play a pivotal role in the future of core robotics components and continue to drive technological and market advancement."

Founded in 2022, INX is a technology startup focused on high-performance integrated robot joint actuators, concentrating on the embodied intelligence sector and committed to providing the highest-quality joint actuator solutions for next-generation humanoid and embodied intelligent robots. INX's core team hails from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Founder and CEO Zonghuang Zhu had multiple entrepreneurial experiences during university and has been deeply involved in robot joint actuator development since 2018; team members have worked together for many years.

The integrated joint actuator combines the driver, motor, reducer, encoder, and sensor into a single unit, representing the most important hardware component of a robot. This highly integrated module not only simplifies robot structural design but also directly determines the precision, speed, and flexibility of robot motion execution, playing a crucial role in overall robot performance. Joint actuators account for up to 40% of total robot costs.

In recent years, advances in AI technology have endowed robots with intelligent capabilities. Next-generation embodied intelligent robots are expected to break through the limitations of traditional robots, vastly expanding the robotics market and bringing profound transformation to human production and lifestyles. Over the past year, the embodied intelligent robotics industry has seen the emergence of numerous outstanding startups, while major companies have also actively entered the robotics track, driving rapid industry development.

Amid this wave of technological innovation, INX has become the preferred joint actuator partner for many embodied intelligent robot manufacturers thanks to its superior product performance, reliable quality and consistency, and professional service and support system — effectively enabling OEM partners to continuously optimize and iterate their products. Currently, INX has established a leading position in the integrated joint actuator field for embodied intelligent robots, building significant first-mover advantages across R&D capability, production processes, customer resources, data accumulation, service systems, and cost management.

INX's main mass-produced products

Customers have given INX high praise:

"During our supplier selection phase, we rigorously validated over 30 joint actuator manufacturers and ultimately chose INX as our partner. INX meets our needs in collaborative R&D capability and product reliability, and their after-sales support has been very timely, efficiently resolving various issues we encountered in our collaboration. As our cooperation deepened, we noticed that an increasing number of humanoid robot companies are also selecting INX's joints, further demonstrating its technological leadership and exceptional support services in this field. We look forward to maintaining our long-term partnership with INX to jointly drive rapid industry development."

— CEO of an embodied intelligence OEM company

"Based on INX's strong reputation in the market, we established an in-depth cooperation with them. After comparing multiple actuator manufacturers, we found that INX leads other manufacturers in professional capability, product quality, product performance, and consistency. Given these advantages, we have decided to further strengthen our partnership with INX going forward."

— Head of an OEM unit at a national-level embodied intelligence innovation center

INX production facility

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—Zonghuang Zhu, Founder & CEO of INX