Alibaba Cloud's First Move in Embodied Intelligence: Self-Variable Robot Secures Nearly 1 Billion Yuan in New Funding

X Square Robot, a pioneering company in embodied intelligence, has successfully secured nearly 1 billion yuan in Series A+ funding, according to a report by LatePost. This round was co-led by Alibaba Cloud and Guoke Investment, with participation from SDIC Fund, Sequoia China, and Yingce Capital. Existing investors Meituan, Legend Star, and Legend Capital also increased their stakes.

Prior to this funding round, X Square Robot had already completed seven financing rounds, accumulating over 1 billion yuan in total investment. Notably, this marks Alibaba Cloud’s first investment in an embodied intelligence firm. Earlier, Alibaba Group had invested in several companies within the embodied intelligence ecosystem, including companies like Jaka, Startonic, Unitree Robotics, StarryNift, and Lingxin Qiaoshou.

Founded in December 2023, X Square Robot aims to develop a general-purpose embodied intelligence model to achieve the ultimate goal of universal robotics — enabling robots to autonomously perform tasks through interaction, perception, and action, while demonstrating high efficiency in generalization and transfer capabilities.

The company's founder and CEO, Qian Wang, graduated from Tsinghua University with both his bachelor's and master's degrees. He is among the earliest researchers globally to propose the attention mechanism in neural networks. During his PhD studies, he participated in multiple Robotics Learning projects at a top robotics laboratory in the United States, gaining extensive experience across nearly all areas of robotic manipulation and home service robotics.