HANGZHOU, 18 September 2026. Per Chenyuan Capital, Hangzhou Guoxun Robotics has closed two funding rounds in the past half year totalling tens of millions of RMB, from Jiuzhao Investment, Yueke Financial Group and Liang Venture. The new entry of Yueke, Guangdong’s largest state-owned mother-fund manager and one of China’s top five state professional mother-fund firms, signals capital confidence in the company’s technology and prospects.
Guoxun had already drawn a roster of well-known investors. Before this round, Zhonghai Investment, Daosheng Capital, Shumu Assets, Shanda Investment and Yunzhou Capital had all taken positions, repeatedly validating thetrack’s value.
Founded in August 2021, Guoxun focuses on industrial smart-safety inspection and smart-safety operation robots, a high-tech firm with both Chinese Academy of Sciences technical heritage and state-capital backing. It was among the first in the industry to launch multi-function smart-safety inspection robots for complex, harsh scenarios, including thermal-power coal corridors and cooling towers, wind nacelles, chemical coking furnaces, outdoor long-distance coal corridors and pipeline LNG receiving stations, all using its own first-of-kind practical inspection robots.
The company also pioneered “compound machine vision”, iteratively raising risk-detection precision and recognition efficiency and building a smart-safety robot inspection product system, while extending into intelligent-operation products. Its harsh-scenario line spans pipe-gallery, standard-corridor, explosion-proof track, coal-track, explosion-proof wheeled and outdoor-belt inspection robots plus wind-nacelle units. Standard safety robots cover distribution, wheeled and quadruped inspection. Specialty products include power-switching and belt-tear detection units.
On core hardware, Guoxun’s track robots handle steep climbs, tight continuous turns, V and W bends and inner-outer curves, and run stably in dense dust, high heat, high humidity, extreme cold and strong magnetism. The company’s coal-track inspection robot earned the first coal-safety licence in the inspection-robot category in China, and its thermal-power track robots lead the industry in shipments.
Beyond hardware, Guoxun built a hardware-plus-software closed loop: proprietary intelligent software with advanced algorithms enables task allocation, full-process monitoring and automatic inspection logging, with cloud-based analytics, remote operation and equipment maintenance. It can quickly stand up customised back-end management platforms for power, smelting, coal, oil-and-gas and chemical scenarios.
Guoxun has deployed across power, mining, chemicals, smelting, grid, pipeline and transport, serving almost every leading central state-owned enterprise in China’s energy and heavy-industry sectors, including China Energy, Huaneng, Huadian, SPIC, Baowu Steel, Shaanxi Coal, Shandong Energy and CRRC. At a China Energy thermal-power project, its overhead-track robot runs along the ceiling, inspects safely while belts operate, and completes a full-corridor sweep every two hours for 24-hour unattended operation. At a northwest coal-chemical plant, its explosion-proof track robot, certified for coal safety, fills the night-shift monitoring gap with two-hour patrols and real-time alarms.
The smart-inspection market is booming. Per Zhiyan Consulting, China’s smart-inspection robot demand reached 7,738 units in 2025, a RMB 2.748 billion market, and is projected to rise to 9,722 units and RMB 3.185 billion in 2026. The power sector alone takes 87.3 per cent of demand and 85.27 per cent of market value.
Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original OFweek Robotics report. It has been trimmed and restructured for readability for an international business audience.