- Suzhou-based company develops AI-powered robots that can identify and pick unfamiliar products without prior training data
- Funding will support product development and wider deployment in retail and logistics warehouses
Ultirobotics (韦特嘉), a Chinese warehouse automation startup, has closed a Series A funding round worth tens of millions of yuan as it scales a robotic system that can handle goods it’s never encountered before.
State-run Changshu Economic Development Juyuan Equity Fund and Shenzhen innoX Academy co-led the investment, which will fund R&D and product iterations for unmanned warehouse solutions.
innoX is a robotics, AI and automation-focused incubator founded in 2021 by Professor Li Zexiang, an legendary angel investor of DJI and other top-tier Chinese tech startups.
Ultirobotics completed an angel funding round in September 2025, though it did not disclose the amount.
Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Changshu, Jiangsu province, Ultirobotics builds AI-powered systems combining proprietary vision models with robotic arm control and mobile robot coordination.
Its primary customers operate instant retail fulfillment centers and rapid-delivery warehouses, including a partnership with Meituan.
Without prior data colleciton
The company’s Ulti-Brain model uses layered architecture merged with a “world model” approach, processing continuous RGBD video streams to achieve zero-shot sorting.
This means robots can identify and pick items without prior data collection from customer sites, reducing the need for massive and costly data acqusition and pre-training.
Traditional warehouse systems require pre-capturing images of each SKU before operations can begin, a significant barrier when facilities stock tens of thousands of product varieties.
“The warehouse is the world’s best robot training ground,” said Zhao Jiangting, founder and CEO. “Every failed grasp becomes raw material for model evolution. We chose warehousing because it offers sufficient data density, complex real-world pressure, and the clearest commercial loop.”
Validated technology
Zhao spent over a decade at leading warehouse robotics firms including Geek+ (极智嘉), Hai Robotics (海柔创新) and Quicktron (快仓科技), focusing on European markets.
Ultirobotics’ core team includes veterans from Beihang University and University of Science and Technology Beijing with nearly 10 years’ experience in mobile robotics, machine vision and retail.
The company has validated its technology across complex SKU recognition, autonomous grasping strategies, exception handling, task planning and continuous learning in live customer environments.
Its product line spans humanoid robots, unmanned sorting systems, robotic picking workstations and in-warehouse picking systems for e-commerce, third-party logistics, retail and manufacturing clients.
