The fund will focus on original early-stage technologies emerging from Huazhong University in areas including optoelectronics, biomedicine, new materials and high-end equipment manufacturing.
The companies said they plan to target sectors including spatial design, tourism, cultural heritage preservation, industrial digital twins, film production and gaming.
Unlike many robotics firms focused on a single category, Robot Phoenix expanded across multiple robot types in an effort to become a one-stop automation supplier for manufacturers.
The center combines commercial demonstrations with data collection, skill training and R&D collaboration functions.
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.
