Chinese robot-chip company D-Robotics has closed a US$400 million Series C led by Mirae Asset, with strategic participation from Meituan and Hefei State-owned Capital Investment and follow-on capital from existing shareholders including GL Ventures, 5Y Capital and Vertex Growth. It is one of the largest robotics-infrastructure rounds of 2026 and lands as Chinese humanoid and home-robot makers scale up to volume.
What D-Robotics builds
Rather than making end-product robots, D-Robotics designs the compute and developer platform underneath them. Its Sunrise SoC family and RDK developer kits are used by more than twenty embodied-AI programs, from Tars Robotics and UBTECH to Booster, Astribot and X Square Robot, and cumulative Sunrise shipments passed eight million units in the first half of 2026. The company reports developer numbers north of 100,000 across 500-plus universities in 20 countries.
Where the money goes
The new capital targets the next tier of the Sunrise line — anchored by the higher-performance Sunrise S600 introduced late in 2025 — and a full-chain software stack covering data collection, model training, simulation and inference deployment. Management framed the goal as "one platform, every category," from mature quadrupeds and delivery robots to general-purpose humanoids.
Why this round matters
Chinese physical-AI investors have poured capital into humanoid and warehouse platforms this year — see the UBTECH Liuzhou factory ramp and the Hello Robotaxi $100M raise — but that hardware wave still runs on a thin bench of local chip suppliers. Mirae Asset's lead check, alongside Meituan's strategic dollars, is a bet that D-Robotics can be the domestic answer for the Sunrise-class SoCs and developer tools that all of those factories are buying today.
Reporting based on coverage from PR Newswire, AAStocks, TechStartups and D-Robotics.