X Square Robot

Robotics · Shenzhen, CN

Chinese general-purpose robotics startup founded in 2023, a rival of Figure AI and Boston Dynamics.

Founders

Wang Qian (China · ♂) — An early researcher of neural-network attention mechanisms who did robotics-learning research at USC and ran a quant fund, he returned to China and founded X Square Robot in 2023 to build foundation models for embodied AI.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Jan 2026	Series A X Square Robot closed an A++ round of RMB 1 billion (~$140M) led by ByteDance, Sequoia China and Shenzhen Capital Group, the first deal of Shenzhen Capital's new AI fund.	$140M
Sep 2025	Series A X Square Robot raised about $100M in an A+ round led by Alibaba Cloud, with HongShan, Meituan, Legend Star, Legend Capital and INCE Capital: its eighth round in less than two years.	$100M
May 2025	Series A X Square Robot closed a Series A of several hundred million yuan led by Meituan Strategic Investment for its embodied AI models.	—

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