On 8 September, Guangdong Tianji Intelligence said it had closed a B++ strategic round co-led by Ant Group and Sofina Asia Private, with Gaorong Venture Capital and Tencent following on, and Gaohu Capital as sole adviser.
The funds go to technology research, scaled production and global market build-out.
Tianji was founded in 2015 in Dongguan’s Songshan Lake, spun out of listed firm Changying Precision’s automation unit and independently run since 2021, with Changying still holding about 27 per cent. Founder and CEO Chen Xi, born in 1987, a Cambridge master’s graduate, took over in 2019 and moved the firm from integration projects to product, steering it toward embodied force-control bodies.
Force-control arms and joint modules
Its main products are force-control humanoid dual arms and joint modules. With in-house MEMS joint torque sensors, light integrated joint modules and force-control algorithms, the Marvin line scales by load: the M20S single arm carries 20 kg, a first at that class, and the M6S Lite weighs 8 kg with a 5 kg single-arm load and a 62.5 per cent pay-to-weight ratio. In 2025 Tianji delivered over 2,000 force-control dual arms in four months and calls itself the first to mass-deliver the product; Q1 2026 orders passed 10,000 units across 45 humanoid OEMs.
Its humanoid brand Gento has launched Luna and Skye wheeled humanoids now in scaled delivery. This is Tianji’s second round in three months: in May, Gaoling Venture and Meituan Capital co-led a 1 billion yuan B and B+ at a post-money value near 10 billion yuan, with Tencent and Gaorong following.
Co-lead Ant Group has been active in embodied tech, leading tactile-sensing firm Daimo’s several-hundred-million-yuan round in August; Sofina, a Belgian investor, is there for the global push. The B++ funds research, volume and global reach, with a capacity target of 50,000 units a year.
Two rounds in three months are a race for the production window. Whether the force arm becomes standard kit on humanoids gets its answer from next year’s OEM shipment counts, not from demos.
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.
Translated and adapted from OFweek Robot (https://robot.ofweek.com/2026-09/ART-898890-12005-30702275.html).