Simate, 3 Months Old, Tops RoboDojo Leaderboard and Raises Hundreds of Millions RMB
新智元 · wechat · 2026-09-24
Simate, a robotics startup just months old, claimed the top spot on the public RoboDojo leaderboard and raised several rounds totaling hundreds of millions of RMB. Founder Zhang Ying was a core tech lead at a top Chinese autonomous driving company; the team includes HKUST professor Zhan Fangneng and ex-ARI founding member Ma Zeyu.
Its core pitch is Physical RSI — automating research itself. The AutoResearch system runs a hypothesis-experiment-validation-iteration loop on a pluggable model framework (SiPAI) with multi-agent orchestration and isolated infra, currently in a 'weak RSI' stage where humans set goals and agents run experiments. The platform is in beta with students from Tsinghua, MIT and others.
The model emphasizes 4D physical perception and hierarchical temporal memory, with real-robot demos showing long-horizon memory and precision manipulation. Caveats: the piece reads as PR, key specs like model size are undisclosed, and leaderboard claims await independent verification.
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