IO-AI Tech, a data infrastructure provider for robotics and embodied intelligence, has announced a financing round of hundreds of millions of yuan, co-led by Shunwei Capital, Pine Capital, and Shenzhen Capital Group. The company focuses on three product lines — teleoperation data collection, human data acquisition, and embodied data management — aiming to lower the barrier for embodied intelligence models to enter the physical world.
Financing Overview: Top-Tier Capital Bets on Data Infrastructure
IO-AI Tech, founded in 2023, recently announced a financing round of hundreds of millions of yuan. The round was co-led by Shunwei Capital, Pine Capital, and Shenzhen Capital Group (SCGC), with strategic investment from a top-tier robotics OEM. Proceeds will be directed toward core product development, team expansion, and global market growth.
The financing event itself is an industry signal: as the competition focus in the embodied intelligence sector shifts from hardware joint parameters to general foundation models, data infrastructure is becoming the key variable determining industrialization progress.
| Financing Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Amount | Hundreds of millions of RMB |
| Lead Investors | Shunwei Capital, Pine Capital, SCGC |
| Strategic Investor | Top-tier robotics OEM |
| Founded | 2023 |
| Fund Usage | Product R&D, team building, global expansion |
Three Core Products: Closing the Data Loop
IO-AI Tech is positioned not as a single data collection service provider or teleoperation device vendor, but as a "data infrastructure builder" for embodied intelligence. The company adheres to proprietary integrated software and hardware development, constructing an end-to-end product suite spanning robot teleoperation, human data acquisition, and embodied data management.
Three core product lines have been established:
- TeleXperience: A general robotic teleoperation data collection system providing unified human-machine collaborative control across different robot configurations, enabling efficient migration of human experience to robotic action capabilities
- SenseXperience: A real-world human data acquisition system responsible for collecting multimodal data from human-physical-world interactions
- EmbodiFlow: An embodied data management platform closing the full loop from data collection and management to training support and feedback optimization
Together, these three products address the core pain point of embodied intelligence: robots need to learn multimodal data generated by human-physical-world interactions, and this data cannot be directly scraped from the internet.
Industry Context: Why Data Is the Bottleneck for Embodied Intelligence
In recent years, the explosion of large language models has ushered AI into a new phase, with embodied intelligence gradually becoming a major direction in global tech innovation. But unlike LLMs that can leverage internet-accumulated text and image data for training, robots require:
- Visual data — Environment perception from the robot's perspective
- Action data — Real trajectories of human limb movements
- State data — Real-time status of the robot body during operations
- Environmental feedback — Real-world responses to robot actions
This data can only come from physical interactions in real scenarios and cannot be directly grabbed from the internet. Therefore, building data infrastructure covering collection, management, training, and feedback optimization has become the necessary path for embodied intelligence to move from technical validation to large-scale deployment.
IO-AI Tech's end-to-end product suite precisely fills this gap, with its client base covering over 150 robotics industry clients globally, including robotics companies, embodied intelligence model developers, and industrial clients.
Capital Logic and Industry Outlook
2026 is regarded as the breakout year for embodied intelligence. From the concept debut year of 2024 to the capital explosion period of 2025-2026, leading humanoid robot companies have raised over 30 billion RMB in the past 18 months, with many entering the Pre-IPO stage.
IO-AI Tech's investment from Shunwei, Pine, and SCGC is no coincidence:
- Shunwei Capital has long been布局 in embodied intelligence, previously investing in PokeBot, Galbot, and other leading projects
- SCGC, backed by Shenzhen state capital, continues to加码 the hard tech sector
- Pine Capital has accumulated deep investment experience in AI and robotics
For investors and practitioners tracking the robotics industry, data infrastructure is becoming an indispensable link in the embodied intelligence value chain. For more in-depth industry analysis, visit EX1000.COM.
