The management may consider another fundraising round this year before attempting an initial public offering in 2027, as investor interest in brain-computer interface technologies accelerates.
The partnership will provide integrated testing services covering China’s CR certification as well as international systems including CE and NRTL standards.
Local officials are also leveraging the competition as a platform to court broader industry participation.
Teams were required to guide self-developed underwater robots through a full sequence of search, positioning, retrieval and return tasks across the lake’s thousand-acre natural water area.
Galileo’s “Tiejia Tianbao,” or Iron Leopard, team outperformed rivals with its self-developed quadruped robots, excelling in mobility, motion control and all-terrain obstacle crossing.
Under the agreement, the two sides will jointly develop infrastructure spanning data centers, AI model services and computing platforms.
The launch comes as embodied AI startups face mounting bottlenecks around fragmented computing resources, limited access to training data and a lack of standardized testing environments.
The partnership will combine Rokid’s AR and AI hardware ecosystem with Seichitech’s expertise in Micro LED inspection technology.
The company said the data reflects how intelligent driving systems are increasingly becoming standard features for everyday commuting rather than experimental add-ons.
This year’s competition focuses on industrial, service and special-use applications, with all tasks derived from practical pain points identified by leading companies rather than abstract benchmarks.
