Beijing Zhongke Yuandongli Technology has closed a B2 round of several hundred million yuan led by Chery Intelligent Technology, under Chery Holdings. Tianyancha records eight rounds to date. Spun out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Microelectronics, it is a national little giant specialised SME for agricultural robots, led by academician Li Deyi as chief scientist and founded by his student Han Wei.
The Chery tie is more than money. The carmaker brings R&D, engineering validation, supply chain, production quality control and global channels, speeding productisation and internationalisation of new-energy smart farm machinery and embodied agricultural robots. Zhongke Yuandongli runs a new energy plus intelligence route with pure-electric and methanol-hydrogen series, the world’s first full 25 to 340 horsepower new-energy smart machinery line, and has reached Level 4 autonomy where most rivals sit at Level 1.
Its products span the full farming cycle, tractors, unmanned operation systems, tomato-picking robots and transport units, with all-weather, automated, precise work. In Xinjiang cotton fields the machines plant with centimetre-level straight-line error; abroad, its system has been adapted to Belarusian tractor models. Cumulative unmanned standardised operations exceed 1 million mu across more than 20 provinces, with overseas validation underway. The global agricultural-robot market is set to grow from 17.73 billion dollars in 2025 to 56.26 billion dollars by 2030, a 26.0 per cent compound rate. China’s own market is forecast to pass 16 billion yuan in 2026 as policy and labour shortage drive machines replacing people.
Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original OFweek Robot report. It has been trimmed and restructured for readability for an international business audience.