Huawei's Hubble Investment Backs Hangzhou Pre-Unicorn, Reigniting Embodied AI Boom

Recent corporate filings reveal that Qianxun Intelligent Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. has increased its registered capital from approximately 1.4 million yuan to 1.95 million yuan. New investors include Shenzhen Hubble Technology Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership) under Huawei, China Merchants Group's Shenzhen Innovation Investment Fund Center (Limited Partnership), and other institutional powerhouses like the SME Development Fund (Chengdu) Jiaozi Venture Capital Partnership.

Who Is This Industry "Dark Horse"?

Though young in age, Qianxun Intelligent commands significant influence in the sector.

source: Spirit AI

Founder Han Fengtao is a veteran in robotics with over a decade of industry experience, previously serving as co-founder and CTO of ROKAE Robotics. Under his leadership, teams developed two major product matrices—industrial and collaborative robots—with nearly 100 models and over 20,000 units shipped, successfully commercializing technology across 20+ industries and 100+ specialized scenarios.

In 2024, Han established Qianxun Intelligent—a leading domestic embodied AI company with full-stack AI+robotics production capabilities, dedicated to creating world-class general-purpose embodied intelligence models that drive breakthroughs in robotics technology and applications.

He's joined by two key partners—Gao Yang and Zheng Lingyin—forming a golden "research-production-sales" leadership trio.

Gao Yang holds a PhD in Computer Vision from UC Berkeley, focusing on multimodal robot interaction research under embodied AI authority Professor Pieter Abbeel. Zheng Lingyin brings extensive international market development and commercialization experience as a pioneer in industrial robotics exports.

This complementary expertise has rapidly attracted a world-class robotics software and hardware team. Their staff includes top talent from premier global institutions like UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, Tsinghua, Peking University, and Zhejiang University, as well as industry giants like Xiaomi, Huawei, Tencent, and DJI.

"Using the best steel for the cutting edge." From embodied large model development to robot hardware design, decision algorithms, and motion control, Qianxun has achieved technological self-sufficiency across the entire process, crafting each technical element with watchmaker precision to build a formidable technological moat.

In embodied AI models, Qianxun's self-developed Spirit v1 VLA model transforms robots into "household assistants" capable of completing complex sequential tasks like folding clothes, brewing coffee, and organizing desktops with significantly enhanced generalization capabilities. This marks China's first breakthrough in solving the challenging problem of long-sequence manipulation of flexible objects.

In robotics hardware, Qianxun independently developed Moz1, China's first high-precision full-body force-controlled embodied intelligence robot. Built on globally leading power-density integrated force-controlled joints, it achieves industry-leading standards in speed, precision, safety, and bionic force control.

Market recognition has followed quickly. Recently, Qianxun was selected for multiple honors including "2025 Hangzhou Pre-Unicorn Enterprise" and "2025 China Future Unicorn TOP 100."

This "hardcore" technological prowess has naturally attracted capital investment. In just over a year since founding, Qianxun has completed four funding rounds, including nearly 200 million yuan in seed and angel investments, followed by a Pre-A round of 528 million yuan.

Top-tier investors including Prosperity7 Ventures (under Aramco Ventures), China Merchants Capital, Shunwei Capital (co-founded by Lei Jun and renowned "unicorn hunter" Xu Dalai), Borai Capital (established by CATL co-founder and Vice Chairman Li Ping), GF Xinde Investment, Jingya Capital, Fortune Ocean Fund, and CASH Capital have all placed their bets on the company.

Huawei Hubble's recent entry adds tremendous strength to an already impressive roster.

Previously, Huawei Hubble has invested in "Tsinghua-affiliated" large model company MiniMax, global next-generation vision sensor technology pioneer Sapiens Micro, and Transformer Sensor, which specializes in resolver sensors and decoding circuits.

As the tech industry's "navigator," every move Huawei makes draws attention.

For example, Huawei Cloud's Pangu embodied intelligence model employs an innovative cloud-assisted approach that enables robots to complete complex task planning with over 10 sequential steps, navigating freely through diverse scenarios with generalized applications to handle multiple challenging tasks. The "Kuafu" humanoid robot from Rokid, equipped with this model, serves as an "all-capable butler" in home environments—not only accurately identifying objects and conversing fluently but also performing human-like actions such as high-fives and serving drinks.

Last November, Huawei (Shenzhen) Global Embodied Intelligence Industry Innovation Center officially began operations. Simultaneously, it signed cooperation memoranda with 16 upstream, midstream, and downstream enterprises across the industrial chain, including Rokid Robotics, Zhaowei Machinery & Electronics, Moying Technology, Topstar, and Self-Variable Robotics.

In February this year, Huawei filed a "MATEROBOT" trademark application targeting the scientific instruments category, broadly covering multiple robotics-related contents.

 

Conclusion

In the new wave of technological revolution, embodied intelligence attracts global attention like a magnet, with tech giants, innovative enterprises, and research institutions worldwide eagerly joining a fierce competition that combines top talent, technology, and capital.

The "2025 Humanoid Robots and Embodied Intelligence Industry Research Report" indicates that China's embodied intelligence market is projected to reach 5.295 billion yuan in 2025, accounting for 27% of the global share, while the humanoid robot market will exceed 8.239 billion yuan.

On this new track filled with opportunities and challenges, how will Huawei continue to write its technological legend? And what breakthrough innovations will newcomer Qianxun Intelligent bring to the field? The answers are worth everyone's anticipation.