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X Square Robot Raises New Funds, Targets Home Trials by May

Published: Apr. 21, 2026 11:15 p.m. GMT+8

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Humanoid robot company X Square Robot held a press conference in Beijing on April 21. Photo: X Square Robot

Chinese humanoid robotics startup X Square Robot said it has secured Series B funding led by Xiaomi Corp.’s strategic investment arm and plans to begin testing its new generation of robots in real households by late May.

The aggressive timeline runs counter to broader industry expectations that deploying robots in unpredictable domestic settings remains years away, underscoring the rapid advancement and heavy investment in China’s embodied artificial intelligence sector.

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X Square Robot secured Series B funding led by Xiaomi; plans household robot testing by May 25.
Previous rounds: Feb hundreds of millions yuan (valuation >10B yuan), Jan 1B yuan Series A++, Sep 2025 nearly 1B yuan Series A+.
Unveiled Wall-B AI model with joint vision-language-action training for physics intuition; trained on real-home data.

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Who’s Who

X Square Robot: X Square Robot, a Chinese humanoid robotics startup founded in Dec 2023, secured Series B funding led by Xiaomi's investment arm. It plans household robot testing by late May 2025, unveiling Wall-B AI model for physics-aware tasks. Backed by ByteDance, Alibaba, SAIC; valuation over 10B yuan. Experimental phase starts May 25. (58 words)

Xiaomi Corp.: Xiaomi Corp.'s strategic investment arm led the Series B funding for Chinese humanoid robotics startup X Square Robot.

SAIC Capital: SAIC Capital led X Square Robot's funding round in late February, alongside a CICC-SAIC fund, raising hundreds of millions of yuan and pushing the company's valuation above 10 billion yuan.

CICC: CICC, via the CICC-SAIC fund, co-led X Square Robot's late February funding round, raising hundreds of millions of yuan and boosting valuation above 10 billion yuan.

ByteDance Ltd.: ByteDance Ltd. backed X Square Robot's 1-billion-yuan Series A++ funding round in January.

HongShan Capital Group: HongShan Capital Group backed X Square Robot's 1-billion-yuan Series A++ funding round in January, alongside ByteDance Ltd. and Shenzhen Capital Group.

Shenzhen Capital Group: Shenzhen Capital Group backed X Square Robot's 1-billion-yuan Series A++ funding round in January, alongside ByteDance Ltd. and HongShan Capital Group.