In mid-August, Zhongjian Technology was fined RMB 3.9 million for fabricating a signing with Huawei’s Embodied Intelligence Innovation Centre and false disclosure, mired in controversy. Amid the storm, the veteran garden-equipment maker did not stop expanding in robotics.
Recently Zhongjian announced that it and subsidiary Shanghai Huazhijian signed an intelligent-robot industrialisation investment agreement with the Yongkang municipal government. Shanghai Huazhijian will set up a project entity in Yongkang, investing in an intelligent-robot industrialisation project with planned total investment of RMB 1.2 billion, building a national smart-manufacturing HQ, a global sales HQ, a postdoctoral workstation and a robot training ground to grow the intelligent-robot chain.
Shanghai Huazhijian was founded in August 2025 to carry Zhongjian’s embodied-AI basic research and industrialisation mission. But the books show the capital-favoured startup is not yet profitable: 2025 revenue RMB 126,549, net loss RMB 11.303 million; first-half 2026 revenue 0, net loss RMB 56.557 million, a pure R&D burn.
Alongside the Yongkang signing, Zhongjian said Shanghai Huazhijian introduced external investors and increased capital. The round, joined by Yongkang Puhua Huajian, Guangdong Haomei New Materials, Suzhou Zhuoyu Electric, Hainan Runze and Sanya Shenguang, totalled RMB 300 million for 4.6667 million new shares at RMB 64.29 per share. Pre-money valuation reached RMB 4.5 billion, a valuation the market backs.
After the increase, registered capital rose to 74.6667 million; Zhongjian holds 53.1696 per cent and keeps control, consolidated into the listed company.
Clear subsidiary roles, a stepped robot matrix
As a leading garden-equipment maker, Zhongjian built a multi-subsidiary, multi-product robot ecosystem: mowing, quadruped and humanoid, plus self-made core parts. R&D sits with Zhongjian Gaocre, Jiangsu Jianmi and Zhongjian Zhike.
Mowing robots, Zhongjian Gaocre: founded 2023, focusing smart mowers, leveraging the parent’s garden-machinery strength. Its GOATBOT smart mower needs no boundary setup, runs fully unattended, with RTK plus VSLAM, 3D lidar plus vision and PureVSLAM schemes, covering 300 to 30,000 square metres. First-half 2026 its lead ODM project finished final pre-mass trial, with volume delivery in the second half. Revenue was RMB 1.659 million, still at a RMB 15.867 million loss.
Quadruped, Jiangsu Jianmi: founded May 2024, building foot, wheel-foot and humanoid robots; core product Lingrui P1 quadruped is in mass production. Lingrui P1 tops 6 metres per second, clears 40-centimetre obstacles, climbs over 45 degrees, autonomously climbs over 25-centimetre steps, for power inspection, emergency, security and logistics. First-half 2026 revenue RMB 3.1575 million, the highest of the three, yet a RMB 3.3184 million loss.
Parts, Zhongjian Zhike: founded 2024, offering full-chain build from joint modules to whole-machine design and delivery. It self-develops and mass-produces a full planetary joint-module line, heavy-duty flagship, mid-load general and high-speed agile, forming an integrated core capability, a “technical moat”. Its pilot line opened in 2025. First-half 2026 revenue only RMB 111,700, net loss RMB 10.1596 million.
To push the robotics pivot, Zhongjian sharply raised R&D: first-half 2026 total R&D RMB 139 million, up 257.13 per cent, with 62.31 per cent into intelligent robots, an unprecedented tilt. That hurt the whole company: first-half 2026 revenue RMB 701 million, up 39.50 per cent from RMB 503 million, but profit turned to a RMB 7.6147 million net loss, down 114.91 per cent; non-recurring net loss RMB 6.9455 million, down 114.43 per cent.
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.