An industrial mobile-robot veteran in southern China has raised a strategic round after a twelve-year gap, and the investor line-up shows how tightly the country’s robot supply chain is knitting together.
A twelve-year gap, a strategic round
Guangdong Jiateng Robot Automation has closed a tens-of-millions-yuan strategic financing led by HET, a listed smart-control leader, with Daohe Fund and Jinmu Capital following. The deal reconnects a long-standing cap table: Orient Precision Industry has held about 19.84 per cent since a 2014 strategic entry, making it the second-largest shareholder. The new round also links HET, Orient Precision and Leju Robot, who together formed a humanoid-control joint venture in 2025.
Two decades of industrial depth
Founded in 2002, Jiateng is one of China’s earliest mobile-robot makers, with more than 700 patents and software copyrights. It has built six generations of automated guided vehicles across more than 500 models, covering loads from 5 kg to 220 tonnes, with annual AGV capacity of 10,000 units. In October 2025 it won orders for over 1,000 AGVs from two new-energy giants. Across more than 2,000 delivered industrial projects it has accumulated 270 million hours of field operating data.
The embodied-intelligence chassis
Jiateng positions itself as the physical base for industrial embodied intelligence. Its in-house iCORE chassis supports 360-degree in-place omnidirectional steering and a 100 kg maximum load, steered by vision-and-language models, and fits material handling, line feeding and sorting across humanoids, AGVs, AMRs and unmanned forklifts. The chassis is now in volume shipment at 150 to 200 units a month, with annual capacity targeted above 100,000, and the firm is running proof-of-concept work with partners on 15 kg dual-arm humanoid robots for factories.
Jiateng already sells into more than 30 countries and regions, with over 20,000 AGVs deployed outside China and overseas revenue above 60 per cent of the total. Its customer roster spans GAC, Toyota, Volkswagen, Huawei and Midea across transport, manufacturing, power and electronics.
Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original OFweek report. It has been trimmed and restructured for readability for an international business audience. The full original (in Chinese) is at https://robot.ofweek.com/2026-08/ART-8321202-8120-30699077.html.