Guoxun Robotics, a Hangzhou developer of industrial inspection robots, has closed two funding rounds totalling tens of millions of yuan within roughly six months, with Jiuzhao Investment, Yueke Financial Group and Liang Venture Capital co-investing, the firm’s backer Chenyuan Capital said.
The new money carries weight because Yueke Financial Group is Guangdong’s largest state-owned fund-management platform and ranks among China’s top five professional state mother-fund managers. State backing of this calibre signals capital’s confidence in the company’s technology and prospects.
Guoxun had already drawn a string of well-known investors before this round, including Zhonghai Investment, Daosheng Capital, Shuimu Capital, Shanda Investment and Yunzhou Capital, each validating the track again. The fresh proceeds will go mainly into research, operations and team building.
Founded in August 2021, Guoxun focuses on smart safety inspection and smart safety operation for industry, a high-tech firm with a Chinese Academy of Sciences technical lineage and state-capital backing. It was first to market complex, hostile-environment multi-function inspection robots, deploying practical first-of-kind units in thermal-power coal galleries, cooling towers, wind nacelles, coking furnaces, outdoor coal conveyors and LNG receiving stations.
Its product lines span rail robots for galleries, conveyors, explosion-proof tracks, coal mines and outdoor belts, plus wind-nacelle units, standard distribution and wheeled inspection robots and quadrupeds, and specialised stop-send-power and belt-tear detection devices. The rail robots handle steep climbs, tight and V- or W-shaped turns and extreme dust, heat, cold and magnetic fields without stopping.
The hardware has earned real credentials. Guoxun’s coal-mine rail robot holds China’s first inspection-robot coal-safety licence, and its thermal-power rail robot leads the industry in shipments. With a software layer for task allocation, live monitoring and cloud analytics, the company serves almost every major central state-owned enterprise in energy and heavy industry, including China Energy, Huaneng, Huadian, SPIC, Baowu Steel, Shaanxi Coal and CRRC.
At a large new China Energy thermal project, hanging-rail robots run a full corridor sweep every two hours around the clock, freeing staff from hazardous inspection. At a north-western coal-chemical plant, explosion-proof rail robots fill the night-time monitoring gap with automatic alarms. Industry data puts China’s smart inspection-robot market at 7,738 units and RMB 2.748 billion in 2025, rising to 9,722 units and RMB 3.185 billion in 2026, with the power sector at 87.3 per cent of demand and 85.27 per cent of value.
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Translated and adapted from OFweek Robot (https://robot.ofweek.com/2026-09/ART-8321204-8120-30702856.html).