Company
Cowarobot
Shanghai-based autonomous-driving company making self-driving vehicles and robots for smart sanitation, urban logistics, and commercial applications.
- Founded
- 2015
- HQ
- Shanghai, China
- Status
- active
Funding
$250.0M
Overview
Shanghai-based autonomous-driving company making self-driving vehicles and robots for smart sanitation, urban logistics, and commercial applications. Founded in 2015 by Liu Liyuan, Liao Wenlong, and CEO He Tao, CowaRobot raised 50M in Series C funding and is a leading provider of high-level self-driving full-stack solutions, with the fastest and largest commercial high-level self-driving deployment in China.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
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Key facts
HQ
Shanghai, China
Founded
2015
Focus
Autonomous-driving, self-driving vehicles and robots
Applications
Smart sanitation, logistics, and robotaxi applications
Technology
Own driving AI
CEO
He Tao
Co-founders
Liu Liyuan, Liao Wenlong
Series C
50M
Products
Autonomous sanitation robots, self-driving vehicles
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Current leadership (1)
- He Tao CEOreported, not verified
Founders (1)
- He Taocofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Cowarobot.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Cowarobot in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (1)
- Series C2024-01-01
$250M(reported)
Sources (1)
Common questions
- What is Cowarobot?
- Shanghai-based autonomous-driving company making self-driving vehicles and robots for smart sanitation, urban logistics, and commercial applications. Founded in 2015 by Liu Liyuan, Liao Wenlong, and CEO He Tao, CowaRobot raised 50M in Series C funding and is a leading provider of high-level self-driving full-stack solutions, with the fastest and largest commercial high-level self-driving deployment in China.
- What does Cowarobot make?
- Cowarobot has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Cowarobot builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them.
- Where is Cowarobot headquartered?
- Cowarobot is headquartered in Shanghai, China.
- How much funding has Cowarobot raised?
- Cowarobot has raised approximately $250M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.
- Is Cowarobot a top robotics company?
- On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Cowarobot ranks in roughly the top 15% of companies tracked by the registry.
- When was Cowarobot founded?
- Cowarobot was founded in 2015.
- Is Cowarobot safe?
- Cowarobot has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-02
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-02
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Cowarobot.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Cowarobot from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
CowaRobot collects 50m in series C round
CowaRobot raised 50M in Series C funding for its self-driving robots in sanitation, logistics, and commercial applications.
COWAROBOT - Forbes
Forbes profile of CowaRobot, founded in 2015 by Liu Liyuan, Liao Wenlong, and CEO He Tao in Shanghai.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/cowarobot.md
- RSS feed: /companies/cowarobot/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/14ee1c90-57ed-4d6f-b7c2-2ea2536c500a
- Revision history: /companies/cowarobot/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Cowarobot against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Jul 14, 2026