Smart cooking robot maker raises nearly RMB 100 million as market heads to RMB 13.1 billion
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-07-27
This long WeChat article profiles Zhigu Tianchu, a smart cooking robot company that says it has moved from technical validation to commercial scale. It reports a new nearly RMB 100M strategic funding round, says the company is one of the few in the sector with over RMB 100M in revenue and profitability, and describes its full-stack approach: cooking hardware plus an AI digital dish model, cloud-to-device data feedback, dynamic fire-control algorithms, and an IoT food-safety platform. The article also maps the market, citing a 2025 commercial AI cooking robot market size of RMB 7.72B, projecting RMB 13.12B in 2026, and compares rivals such as Youte Zhichu, Xianglu Robot, and Unstoppable Tech.
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