- Startup delivers its first 100 robots less than a year after its founding
- Company also unveils what it says is the world’s first CNC embodied robot production line
Chinese embodied AI startup Simplexity Robotics (至简动力) delivered the first 100 units of its i7 Pro general-purpose robot in a Suzhou factory on July 6, reaching the production milestone less than a year since the company’s inception.
It also marks what the Hangzhou-based startup described as the industry’s fastest-ever delivery of 100 embodied robots.
The company also unveiled what it said is the world’s first CNC (computer numerical control) production line dedicated to embodied robots, underscoring the industry’s accelerating shift from prototype demonstrations to commercial deployment.
Founded in July 2025, Simplexity has quickly emerged as one of China’s fastest-growing embodied AI startups. Its three co-founders — Wang Kai (王凯), Jia Peng (贾鹏) and Wang Jiajia (王佳佳) — previously worked on autonomous driving at EV upstart Li Auto.
The company has completed five funding rounds within six months, backed by famed investors including HongShan and Vision Plus Capital, as well as internet giants such as Alibaba and Tencent.
One of the fastest-growing unicorns
To date, it has raised a cumulative 2 billion yuan ($295 million) and surpassing a $1 billion post-money valuation, making it one of the fastest-growing unicorns in China’s embodied AI sector.
Simplexity attributed the rapid commercialization of its wheeled dual-arm humanoid model i7 Pro to a vertically integrated development strategy spanning foundation models, robotics hardware and data infrastructure.
The company has developed its proprietary LaST₀ multimodal embodied foundation model alongside a closed-loop data pipeline covering data collection, curation and model iteration.
On the hardware side, the i7 Pro follows automotive-grade engineering standards and integrates mobility, manipulation, 360-degree perception and onboard computing, with reusable core components designed to simplify manufacturing and maintenance.
Within an hour of unpacking
The company said the robot can be deployed within an hour of unpacking, reducing lengthy engineering integration and commissioning work.
Rather than targeting demonstration scenarios, Simplexity has focused on industrial applications with measurable returns, including CNC machine tending and flexible printed circuit board manufacturing.
Its newly unveiled embodied robot production line was developed with Kaiser Drive (开璇智能), a subsidiary of harmonic drive manufacturer Leaderdrive (绿的谐波).
On the production line, i7 Pro robots help manufacture internal components for harmonic reducers, creating what the company described as a hardware “bootstrapping” loop in which robots participate in producing components for future robots.
The company said engineers had to overcome challenging factory conditions, including oil-covered floors and slippery machining environments.
The startup achieved this by optimizing the robot’s mobility system and manipulation algorithms to address issues such as wheel slippage and grasping precision, it said.
Commercialization in retail, smart logistics
Beyond manufacturing, the i7 Pro is undergoing commercial validation in retail and smart logistics, with future expansion planned into community services, exhibition venues and household applications.
Chief Executive Jia Peng said the company aims to build the infrastructure underpinning the embodied AI era.
Leveraging Suzhou’s manufacturing ecosystem, Simplexity plans to establish a “two-hour embodied robotics ecosystem” across the Yangtze River Delta by integrating research, manufacturing, testing and customer deployment within a tightly coordinated regional network.
The company also plans to launch Simple Claw, a developer platform integrating an agent framework, skill library and software development kit to lower barriers for robotics application development and broaden commercial adoption across industries.
