- Company completes four financings in three months as investors pile into embodied AI
- Proprietary model tops international robotics benchmark, company says
Embodied robotics startup Spirit AI (千寻科技) said on June 3 the company has raised 1.5 billion yuan ($222 million) in a Series A+ funding round, extending a fundraising streak that has brought in nearly 5 billion yuan over the past three months.
The latest raise comes as investors race to back China’s fast-growing embodied AI robotics sector.
The Series A+ round drew participation from an undisclosed top-tier US dollar venture fund, industrial investors and state-backed capital, with existing shareholders increasing their stakes, according to the Hangzhou-based company.
Four rounds in three months
The financing marks Spirit AI’s fourth funding round in three months, following two financing rounds in February and another in April.
The company said its valuation surpassed 10 billion yuan following earlier fundraising rounds this year, making it a unicorn already.
Spirit AI said the latest proceeds will be used to advance its next-generation embodied AI foundation models, expand real-world data infrastructure globally and accelerate deployment across industrial applications.
The startup also announced that its self-developed Spirit v1.6 model ranked first overall on the RoboArena benchmark, an international evaluation platform for embodied AI systems.
Outperforming Nvidia, PI
According to the company, the model outperformed offerings from Nvidia and Physical Intelligence, becoming the first Chinese-developed embodied AI model to top the ranking.
Spirit AI expects to accumulate about one million hours of real-world interaction datasets by the end of 2026, covering a wide range of long-tail and multimodal operational scenarios to support future model development and scaling.
The company has been working with partners including Bosch, JD.com and CATL as it seeks to commercialize its technology across manufacturing, retail and industrial settings.
