Chengdu-based startup building OpenHarmony-based "robot brain" software for single- and multi-robot autonomous task execution.
Chilinbo (奇林波), founded in Chengdu in December 2025, develops core software for embodied intelligence robots, focusing on single-robot autonomous task execution and multi-robot collaboration rather than hardware manufacturing.
Its stack has two layers: the device-side "Lingyan Engine" (灵雁引擎), which handles task understanding, planning, decision-making and autonomous execution for an individual robot, and the cloud-side "Yanzhen System" (雁阵系统), which allocates tasks and coordinates resources across multiple, heterogeneous robots. The software is built on the open-source OpenHarmony (HarmonyOS) platform and is designed to be deployed across different robot forms, including robotic arms, quadruped "robot dogs" and humanoid robots.
The company currently generates revenue mainly through the education market, selling desktop crawler robots and desktop quadruped robots to schools and universities, while working toward industrial use cases such as park night-patrol inspection (using thermal imaging on robot dogs) and other high-risk, low-efficiency scenarios such as oilfields, mines and forest-fire monitoring.
In November 2026, Chilinbo raised a "ten-million-level" RMB (tens of millions of RMB) angel round from Chengdu Fangcun Engine Technology Co., Ltd. and unnamed angel investors, to be used for core technology R&D, team building and market expansion. Co-founder and CEO Tang Zuolin previously worked at Motorola on embedded systems and chip drivers and was a core contributor to the open-source OpenHarmony/HarmonyOS base.