Recently, XCANBOT, a pioneer in household embodied intelligence, successfully closed a pre-Series A strategic round of financing worth tens of millions, with Lihex Tech (002243.SZ), a key innovation platform on China’s A-share Sci-Tech board, making a major investment. Yinyue Capital served as the long-term financing advisor. With this milestone, XCANBOT has now assembled three listed industrial capital partners—Shandong Yahua Electronics, Zhejiang Yate Investment, and Lihex Tech—forming a fully integrated industrial empowerment loop combining "wellness scenarios + intelligent manufacturing + frontier science & technology," accelerating technological iteration and commercialization at scale.

Diverging from the vast majority of traditional embodied robots reliant on remote control via data centers and offline, static data updates—which suffer from data latency, poor scenario adaptability, and high costs—XCANBOT has established a unique core competitive moat based on spatial intelligence, scenario-specific data closed-loop systems, and a proprietary embodied large model. The company’s core team hails from autonomous driving R&D divisions at Baidu, Alibaba, and Geely, having won global championships at CVPR, with R&D personnel accounting for over 90% of the workforce. Its products have achieved the first civilian deployment of L4-level autonomous driving spatial intelligence technology. The team has independently developed the XcanBrain embodied large model and the full-stack 5D holistic spatial perception system. The key advantage lies in using deployed robots as real-time sensory entry points to collect high-coverage, high-freshness, low-cost real-world scenario data—rather than relying on static cloud-based datasets for model training. Robots autonomously perceive, dynamically collect, and provide real-time feedback across diverse environments such as courtyards, homes, wellness facilities, and hospitals, continuously generating first-hand scenario data that fuels iterative improvements to the XcanBrain model, endowing it with exceptional environmental adaptability and generalization capabilities—effectively creating an unbridgeable technological gap versus conventional cloud-controlled robots.

Empowered by the triple technical foundation of “spatial intelligence perception + real-time scenario-specific data closed-loop + embodied large model,” XCANBOT has built a scalable, deployable, and upgradable dual-track robot product portfolio. The outdoor smart lawn mower leverages high-precision spatial intelligence to achieve centimeter-level real-time mapping and adaptive obstacle avoidance across complex terrains, continuously collecting dynamic environmental data in real-life yard settings. The wellness companion wheelchair robot deeply integrates the XcanBrain embodied large model, enabling seamless adaptation across home, hospital, and elderly care facility environments, capturing multidimensional data—including human-robot interaction, spatial fitting, and wellness services—via real-time terminal sensing. Unlike traditional robots operating under a rigid “centralized cloud data, fixed algorithms” paradigm, XCANBOT continuously acquires high-freshness, high-fidelity, low-cost industry-specific data through massive field deployments, driving ongoing model optimization. This results in products that become smarter with usage and more contextually adaptive upon deployment—delivering significant commercialization and iteration advantages. Currently, the company holds orders exceeding RMB 100 million, with its technology and market validation already confirmed, poised to enter mass production.

XCAN Model X Embodied Intelligence Companion Robot

The consecutive support from three top-tier industrial capital players has solidified XCANBOT’s full-chain industrialization moat in scenario-specific data closed-loop systems, spatial intelligence algorithms, and embodied large model iteration—creating a competitive edge entirely uncopyable by peers. Shandong Yahua Electronics provides access to extensive real-world wellness scenarios in hospitals and eldercare facilities, offering high-frequency, essential offline data collection environments to enrich the wellness data dimensionality. Zhejiang Yate Investment contributes mature intelligent manufacturing supply chains and global distribution channels, accelerating large-scale terminal robot deployment and further reducing data acquisition costs while expanding data volume. Lihex Tech, leveraging Tsinghua University’s academic-industrial-research ecosystem, drives upgrades in spatial intelligence algorithms and optimizes training for the XcanBrain embodied large model. Together, these synergies create a positive flywheel: “scenario deployment → data collection → model iteration → product enhancement → broader deployment,” effectively overcoming the industry-wide bottlenecks of data scarcity and weak scenario adaptability in traditional embodied intelligence.

A representative from Lihex Tech’s investment team stated: “Embodied intelligence and spatial intelligence are pivotal breakthroughs for AI industrialization, but real-world data closed-loops remain the core bottleneck. Traditional robots depend on static cloud datasets, limiting their adaptability to complex, ever-changing home and wellness environments. XCANBOT’s pioneering scenario-driven, real-time terminal data acquisition model enables cost-effective access to high-value, live data, continuously strengthening the XcanBrain model’s contextual adaptability and autonomous decision-making capabilities. This creates deep technical barriers and exceptional commercial scalability—making it a rare, hard-tech gem within the sector. We will provide comprehensive support to accelerate the company’s technological evolution and industrialization speed.”

XCANBOT founder Li Zhanbin said: “The backing from these three industrial capital partners completes our full growth chain—from in-house R&D to terminal mass production, scenario deployment, data iteration, and global expansion. Moving forward, we will continue to deepen core technologies in spatial intelligence and embodied large models, firmly adhering to the real-time data iteration path driven by real-world scenarios. By continuously refining model capabilities with high-freshness, high-density frontline scenario data, we aim to break the technological limitations of traditional embodied intelligence, accelerate the large-scale commercialization of multi-scenario embodied intelligence products, and establish a globally recognized brand in household embodied intelligence services.”

In the broader industry context, AI and robotics continue advancing rapidly—but most embodied intelligence products remain constrained by static cloud-based data paradigms, resulting in poor scenario adaptability and slow iteration speeds. By leveraging its three core strengths—exclusive real-time scenario-specific data closed-loop systems, advanced spatial intelligence technology, and self-developed embodied large models—combined with a top-tier R&D team, a proven product matrix, and leading industrial resources, XCANBOT precisely addresses the industry’s fundamental pain points. It is well-positioned to maintain leadership in the household embodied intelligence space and capture substantial value in the burgeoning billion-yuan consumer robotics market.

Source: 36Kr