DJI Veteran's Robotics Startup Qiuzhi Tech Raises Over $200M in Two Months
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-08-03
Embodied AI startup Qiuzhi Tech announced a $100 million angel+ round, bringing its total funding to over $200 million in just two months and achieving unicorn status.
- Team: Founder Zhou Guxue is a former DJI Chief Product Manager, with a core team heavily featuring DJI and Tsinghua University alumni.
- Strategy: Initially targeting academia and research with its AIRBOT robotic arms to accumulate real-world data before expanding into broader commercial markets.
- Model Release: Simultaneously launched ORION-0, an embodied AI foundation model with a four-layer architecture (thinking-judgment-action-safety) integrating world models and self-evolving reinforcement learning.
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