DaXiao Robot (大晓机器人) has completed its Angel+ funding round, attracting investment from Geely Capital, Dachen Caizhi, and other prominent investors, with existing shareholder SenseTime Guoxiang Capital increasing its stake. Gaogie Capital served as the long-term financial advisor.
In the first half of 2026, DaXiao Robot has accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars in total financing, assembling a star-studded lineup of industrial investors including Ant Group, Geely Capital, and SenseTime, alongside multiple well-known state-owned capital funds and university-backed funds.
The new funds will be directed toward developing the Kairos World Model and creating software-hardware integrated commercial solutions. Leveraging its human-centric ambient data collection approach, DaXiao Robot aims to accelerate breakthroughs in large-scale embodied training and edge-side direct drive control for the Kairos World Model, further solidifying its global leadership in world models.
Simultaneously, the company will build full-scenario solutions spanning smart retail, security patrol, cultural tourism, and hospitality, deepening open collaboration with industry chain partners to create a collaborative embodied intelligence ecosystem.
Wang Xiaogang (王晓刚), co-founder and executive director of SenseTime and chairman of DaXiao Robot, stated: Embodied intelligence is the next era of AI. DaXiao Robot will persist in underlying technological innovation, with the mission of giving every robot a smart brain, transforming cutting-edge embodied AI technologies into new productive forces that drive industry progress, and accelerating the arrival of embodied AI's ChatGPT moment.
