Poki Robotics Raises $100M+ in 4 Months to Build Brains for Home Robots
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-08-06
Embodied AI startup Poki Robotics announced a $100 million+ Pre-A round led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners China just 4 months after its founding. Led by Tsinghua's Xu Huazhe, the company focuses on building the "brains" for general-purpose home robots.
Technologically, Poki built a WAM × RL × DATA flywheel and developed a UAG architecture that improves training efficiency by over five times. Its robots can independently complete long-horizon tasks like cooking Mapo Tofu. The article also compares the commercialization and tech progress of peers like Weilai Buyuan and Norway's 1X Technologies.
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