Cedarobo Completes Hundreds of Millions RMB in Angel Funding Round

Recently, Cedarobo announced the completion of a new funding round worth hundreds of millions RMB, co-led by INNO Angel Fund and KINZON Capital. This marks a brand-new, accelerated stage in Cedarobo's strategic expansion in the embodied intelligence field.

Officially starting independent operations in 2025, Cedarobo is an innovative enterprise dedicated to R&D and mass production in embodied intelligence. Since its inception, the company has adhered to its core mission: "Change the world with robots, bring robots into millions of households." Driven by technical innovation as its main engine, Cedarobo continues to deepen its focus on embodied intelligence, committing to building an industry ecosystem worth over 100 billion yuan. With solid technical expertise and a clear development strategy, it has emerged as a high-potential rising star in robotics.

Top Talent Matrix Builds Strong Core Technical Barriers

Youfei Cai, CEO of Cedarobo, studied under Yangsheng Xu, a pioneering authority in robotics and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. With over a decade of deep experience in the robotics industry and serial entrepreneurial success, Cai has led multiple consumer-grade robot mass-production projects. He previously served as R&D Vice President at RoboSense and Product Director at an XPeng ecosystem company, possessing exceptional strategic vision and industry leadership.

Furthermore, Cedarobo's core team gathers top-tier talent in embodied intelligence. Core members graduated from premier Chinese universities—such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology—and held key roles at industry leaders including DJI, Huawei, Tencent, and XPeng.

The team possesses full-stack R&D capabilities spanning complete robot hardware design, AI foundation model building, high-speed vision system R&D, and high-coordination control systems with multiple degrees of freedom. Guided by a team ethos of "Lean, Pure, and Courageous to Breakthrough," they share a common goal of changing the world. Rejecting homogeneous trends, they remain committed to engineering precision, providing a rock-solid foundation for continuous innovation and rapid growth.

Standing Out to Showcase Hardcore Robotics Strength

In the 2025 Shenzhen Intelligent Robot Dexterous Hand Competition held in December 2025, Cedarobo stood out among 53 competing teams to win first place, leveraging its high-DOF dexterous hands and core VLA technology.

This victory highlighted Cedarobo's hardcore technical strength in AI robotics, demonstrating capabilities across multimodal data collection, efficient edge deployment, few-shot generalization, "one-brain multi-body" versatility, and continuous evolution. These core capabilities enable robots to independently execute long-horizon, complex mobile manipulation tasks, building a comprehensive technical barrier from foundational tech to real-world applications.

Investor Perspectives

INNO Angel Fund commented:

"Embodied intelligence is undoubtedly one of the hottest fields today, with real-world deployment scenarios posing both the biggest challenge and endless imaginative potential for entrepreneurs. Cedarobo focuses on end-to-end embodied intelligence solutions. Their team brings practical experience from top-tier companies and leverages strong supply chain resources from industry partners, giving them full-stack delivery capabilities. Inno Angel Fund has made extensive investments across the embodied intelligence supply chain. Co-investing in Cedarobo alongside industry partners and existing shareholders will allow us to better synergize resources and support their growth."

Haibo Yao, Founding Partner of Kinzon Capital, stated:

"Kinzon began systematically investing in the embodied robotics track in 2022, funding key companies across autonomous mobility, dexterous manipulation, and adaptive environmental applications. We firmly believe that embodied intelligence represents one of the most promising industrial directions for the next decade, and Cedarobo stands out as a high-potential target in applied embodied intelligence. We know the team's deep technical DNA and operational track record well; their combined advantages in supply chain integration, iterative manufacturing, and engineering implementation are hard for other startups to replicate. We are confident in Cedarobo's long-term value and look forward to partnering with them to drive industrial deployment and unlock commercial value."

This hundreds-of-millions RMB financing round reflects strong capital market recognition of Cedarobo's team strength and growth potential, serving as a critical catalyst for accelerating embodied intelligence deployment. Looking ahead, Cedarobo will push the boundaries of human-robot interaction through relentless innovation. Staying true to its mission to "change the world with robots," the company aims to make intelligent robots a key force in reshaping productivity and elevating daily life—stepping steadily toward its vision of "bringing robots into millions of households" and writing a fresh chapter for the embodied intelligence industry.