On March 31, 2025, Spirit AI, a leading company in embodied AI, announced the completion of a Pre-A round of financing totaling 528 million RMB (approximately US$74 million). This round was led by Prosperity7 Ventures (P7), a subsidiary of Aramco Ventures, with participation from several prominent investors including China Merchants Venture Capital, GF Securities, Jingya Capital, Orient Fortune Capital, and Huakong Fund.
Furthermore, Shanfu Science and Technology Innovation Sub-fund, jointly established by Huafa Group, Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Mother Fund, and Zhejiang Oriental (a listed company) in Hangzhou, also strategically invested in Spirit AI. Existing investors Dacheng Capital, BR Capital, Honghui Fund, and Qiancheng Capital continued their investment in this round, further highlighting the capital market's strong recognition of Spirit AI.
Founded in February 2024, Spirit AI is a leading Chinese company specializing in full-stack, production-level embodied AI technology for robots. The company's team comprises members from top universities such as UC Berkeley, CMU, Tsinghua University, and Peking University, as well as renowned companies like ByteDance, Xiaomi, and Tencent. In just over a year, Spirit AI has successfully completed multiple rounds of financing, driven by its exceptional technical capabilities and innovative ideas. It is dedicated to creating world-class general-purpose humanoid robots and next-generation embodied large models and learning algorithms, thereby advancing the development and application of embodied AI technology.
Spirit AI's core competitiveness stems from its world-class team and leading technological capabilities. Co-founder Gao Yang, a graduate of UC Berkeley and a student of embodied AI pioneer Pieter Abbeel, focuses on cross-modal interaction research for robots. His academic achievements have been featured in top conferences such as NeurIPS and ICRA. The company also boasts a world-class robotics hardware and software team, possessing both development and implementation capabilities, committed to creating truly deployable high-performance embodied AI robots.
Recently, Spirit AI has achieved several key technological breakthroughs in the field of embodied AI. In AI, the company unveiled its self-developed VLA Spirit v1 early access version. A video demonstrates the robot smoothly completing the entire process of folding clothes, accomplishing a long, complex continuous task – a first in China for solving the challenge of long-range manipulation of flexible objects. In robotics, Spirit AI's first commercially available humanoid robot, Moz1, is about to be officially released. Moz1 is China's first high-precision, full-body force-controlled embodied AI robot, featuring 26 degrees of freedom (excluding the dexterous hand). Built using the world's highest power density integrated force-controlled joint, it achieves the highest industry standards in speed, accuracy, safety, and biomimetic force control.
