ByteDance leads $100M funding round for home robot startup

量子位 · wechat · 2026-08-25

Home robot startup "Future Not Far" received a strategic investment from ByteDance, closing three rounds exceeding 1 billion RMB in six months. The company claims to be the first to achieve commercial home deployment, entering over 500 households for cooking and cleaning tasks. It demonstrated end-to-end pasta cooking at WRC. Founder Zhang Yi emphasizes full-stack self-research and cost control, building barriers via real-world scenario data.

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