Tech Brief (April 22): X Square Robot Raises New Funds, Targets Home Trials by May

X Square Robot raises new funds, targets home trials by May

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. Chief executive officer Wang Qian announced the developments at an event in Beijing on Tuesday. The company is recruiting its first batch of household users, describing the May 25 deployment as an experimental phase rather than a mass-market rollout. At Tuesday’s event, X Square Robot unveiled Wall-B, an embodied AI foundational model based on a “World Unified Model” architecture. The architecture gives the robot an intuitive sense of its physical dimensions and the ability to perceive basic physics such as gravity, inertia, and friction, enabling it to learn from failure and adjust its strategies.