UniX AI, the Suzhou-based general-purpose humanoid robot maker, closed a RMB 500 million Pre-A round on 9 November. Existing investors Xienuo Investment and Yonghua Investment both added heavily at above their pro-rata. The new money came from Greenland Group, Keli Sensing, Huagong Venture Capital, Xinjing Fuying, Hongniao Qihang Fund and Yulin Industrial Investment.
The interesting name is Greenland. The property developer is not simply writing a cheque. It joins as a strategic investor and, separately, as a downstream application partner, with the two sides planning to build a closed loop across security, hotels and elderly care covering models, robot bodies, data and solutions.
What the money buys
UniX AI was founded in 2024 and builds both wheeled and bipedal general-purpose humanoids. The commercial focus is business-to-business services, with homes and research education as secondary markets. The company insists on full-stack development, keeping algorithm research and body engineering inside one product loop so that real tasks generate requirements and deployments return field data.
On the software side it runs three models. UniFlex handles generalisation in imitation learning so robots acquire manipulation skills from demonstration. UniTouch fuses vision and touch for object perception and fine manipulation. UniCortex handles long-horizon task planning and execution. The company argues the harder problem is not single-grasp success rate but understanding, sequencing and sustaining a task in a messy environment.
With universities and research institutes it also published UniTac, a unified multimodal tactile model accepted at ECCV 2026, which puts object properties and sensor characteristics into one framework so a robot can generalise touch across different sensors.
On hardware it has two platforms in market, Wanda and Panther, plus in-house joint modules, bionic arms and motion control, with grippers and dexterous hands as interchangeable end effectors.
Three hundred units a month
The delivery numbers are the reason this round closed. Since late 2025 UniX AI says it has consistently shipped more than 100 units a month, peaking above 300, with what it describes as healthy collections and gross margin. It claims repeat orders above 100 units from several flagship accounts.
In security it has batch orders with large property groups and with listed security firms including Certis and Inspur. In hotels its robots run at Hilton, Ji Hotel and Home Inn properties. In retail it operated a 24-hour coffee unit at JD’s 7Fresh for an extended run, completing 2,156 drinks with no errors.
Very few humanoid integrators clear a three-digit monthly delivery rate. UniX AI has done it by binding industrial capital to scenarios and to the supply chain rather than by chasing a general-purpose promise. Greenland brings buildings, security contracts and care facilities. Keli Sensing brings force sensors. Huagong Venture brings a manufacturing base in Guangdong.
The trade-off is that the company is now a supplier to its own investors. That is how Chinese hardware scale-ups get through the trough between prototype and plant. It also means the order book and the cap table are the same document, and the next round has to be priced by someone who is not already on it.
Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original Gasgoo report. It has been trimmed and restructured for readability for an international business audience. The full original (in Chinese) is at https://www.gasgoo.com/apps/e060bad9eca91db7f01403fc7120041f/robot/news/70477374/.