The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Lumos Robotics: 2 models, $140.0M raised. 3 sources back the record.
Overview
LUMOS Robotics (鹿明机器人) is a Shenzhen-based humanoid robotics company founded in 2024 by CEO Yu Chao, a Tsinghua University graduate and former head of Dreame Technology's humanoid robot business. The company develops the LUS1 full-size humanoid robot and the MOS heavy-duty wheeled arm robot, powered by its proprietary Nexcore physical AI engine.
LUMOS has raised approximately 1B RMB (~140M USD) across A1 and A2 funding rounds led by Mitsubishi Electric, and offers 100 NIX humanoid robots for global co-creation projects through its Project EDGE initiative.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries A post-money
Key facts
Product
Category
Founding and product milestones (primary Lumos)
NexCore skill platform (reported RAN)
Data & sources
Web sources
3
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (2)
View all models →Current platform
MOS
The MOS (Mobilized Operating System) is a heavy-duty wheeled arm robot developed by LUMOS Robotics, featuring a 50 kg payload dual-arm system. It is deployed in joint labs with Mitsubishi Electric for AI visual inspection on PLC production lines.
Current platform
LUS1
Lumos Robotics is a Shenzhen-based humanoid robotics company founded in 2024; the LUS1 is an industrial-grade humanoid robot built entirely from in-house components, including proprietary joint modules and visuotactile grippers. The robot is designed for agile motion in unstructured environments, has undergone stress testing including uphill/downhill navigation and fall recovery, and entered pre-production as of 2025.
Partnerships
Every company Lumos Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1COSCO SHIPPING1× joint
- 2Mitsubishi Electric1× joint
Most recent
- Lumos Robotics x Mitsubishi Electric2025-01-01with Mitsubishi Electricoperating
- Lumos Robotics x COSCO SHIPPING2025-01-01with COSCO SHIPPINGjust announced
Lumos Robotics on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (3)
- Yu Chao CEO & Founder, Foundersecondary-verified
- Cao Junliang CTOsecondary-verified
- Ding Yan Co-CTOsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Yu Chaocofounderno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for Lumos Robotics.
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 →
Operator customers (1)
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation2 deployments
Recent coverage
Lumos Robotics in third-party press
Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
Financial state
- Total funding
- $140.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
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.
Partnerships
2 total · 1 operating · 1 just announced
Every company Lumos Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Lumos Robotics x Mitsubishi Electric2025-01-01with Mitsubishi Electricoperating
- Lumos Robotics x COSCO SHIPPING2025-01-01with COSCO SHIPPINGjust announced
Most-frequent partners
- 1COSCO SHIPPING1× joint
- 2Mitsubishi Electric1× joint
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Lumos Robotics x Mitsubishi ElectricwithMitsubishi Electricdeployment2025-01-01operating
- Lumos Robotics x COSCO SHIPPINGwithCOSCO SHIPPINGdeployment2025-01-01just announced
Funding rounds (2)
- Series A2026-05-11
$140M(reported) · $840M post
Investors: Mitsubishi Electric (lead), Puhua Capital (co_lead), Wuzhong Jinkong (co_lead), Hengsheng Electronics, Haigao Group, Kunshi Investments
- Pre-A2025-12-01
Investors: CDH Investments (lead), Nanjing Venture Capital, JinJing Capital, Jingu Shares, Shenergy Chengyi Investment (co_lead)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Lumos Robotics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2026-05-11Series A raising $140000000
Funding roundPre-A funding round
2025-12-01Pre-A
PartnershipLumos Robotics x Mitsubishi Electric
2025-01-01Lumos Robotics established a strategic partnership with Mitsubishi Electric Intelligent Manufacturing (China) for industrial deployment of its embodied AI robots, with Mitsubishi Electric also leading its A1/A2 funding rounds.
PartnershipLumos Robotics x COSCO SHIPPING
2025-01-01Lumos Robotics established a strategic partnership with COSCO SHIPPING for deployment of its embodied AI robots in shipping and logistics operations.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 27, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedMay 11, 2026
MOS at Shanghai, China
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedMay 11, 2026
MOS at Suzhou, China
Sources (3)
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-29
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-29
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
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Methodology surface for Lumos Robotics.Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Lumos Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Robots can outrun humans, but can they plug in a cable?
At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, humanoid robots beat Usain Bolt's 100m sprint record but struggled with precision tasks like cable connection, highlighting the gap…
China's Lumos eyes fresh funding, potential listing as factory robot sales grow
Mitsubishi Electric-backed Lumos Robotics is weighing a further funding round ahead of a possible 2027 IPO, targeting 300 deliveries of its wheeled dual-arm MOS factory robot this…
Beyond marathons and backflips, China's robots face a commercial test
China's humanoid robot makers face pressure to prove commercial value at the 2026 World Robot Conference, with Unitree's Shanghai IPO debut and Lumos Robotics focusing on…
Lumos Robotics tops global benchmark test for zero-shot embodied AI - Robotics & Automation News
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Watch This Humanoid Robot Move in Ways Your Hips Wouldn't Like - IEEE Spectrum
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Chinese startup Lumos offers 100 free humanoid robots - Tech in Asia
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Seeds | Lumos Robotics completes a financing round of several hundred million yuan - Gasgoo
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Three Startups Raise New Capital as China’s Embodied AI Race Heats Up - 一财全球Yicai Global
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Lumos Robotics Closes ~1B RMB Across A1 and A2 Rounds, Mitsubishi Electric Leads - Pandaily
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Lumos Robotics Secures Pre-A1 and Pre-A2 Financing Rounds - Pandaily
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Tsinghua-affiliated embodied intelligence company Lumos Robotics completes two financing rounds
Lumos Robotics completed Pre-A1 and Pre-A2 financing rounds totaling several hundred million yuan, with CDH Investments leading. The company launched four robot products in its…
LUMOS Robotics Gives Away 100 Free NIX Humanoid Robots to Global Builders
Lumos Robotics announced it will provide 100 free NIX humanoid robots to universities, robotics labs, and creative technologists worldwide, citing access as the industry's biggest…
Machine-readable surfaces
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- RSS feed: /companies/lumos-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/8dcb0b82-4a2c-45a0-a67c-3a4ab42f1b87
- Revision history: /companies/lumos-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
Video
LUMOS Robotics Founder & CEO Yu Chao officially introduces Project EDGE — inviting global builders, universities, robotics labs, and creative technologists to explore the future of humanoid robotics together. To superch
From the 2nd-gen full-size LUS series to the MOS embodied robot and compact humanoids, our diverse product matrix is expanding fast. Next, we’ll push further—br
In this video, I review general-purpose robots designed to handle a wide range of tasks. We take a close look at current humanoid robots, what they can actually
Not a trick. Not CGI. Lumos Robotics’ AI-powered humanoid robot #LumosNIX performs flying kick backflips, side flips, and rolling transitions — all driven by r
Curious about what happens when street dance meets embodied AI? 🤖⚡ Voila! From smooth choreography to dynamic flips, NIX is exploring movement, rhythm, and re
📍 Booth B121, Hall B | Beijing Beiren Yichuang International Convention and Exhibition Center See you at the World Robot Conference! 🤖✨
Not a stunt. A milestone in humanoid robotics. Lumos Robotics’ AI-powered bipedal humanoid #LumosNIX demonstrates advanced whole-body motion control with a new
We are thrilled to announce that Prime R0, built by Lumos, has achieved the top ranking on the authoritative MolmoSpaces zero-shot leaderboard, competing agains
At iREX 2025, the entire Lumos Robotics family takes the stage—presenting our complete vision for the future of robotics! And don’t miss our special surprise:
At the 2026 China Online Audio-Visual Gala, Lumos NIX, the AI mini bipedal humanoid from Lumos Robotics, opened the show with the performance “Dancing into the
Forget sleighs – our robots are taking over the dance floor this Christmas! 🤖💃 Lumos Robotics presents *Dancing Into Christmas* – the holiday performance wher
Heat Index
Category contender79/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Lumos Robotics draws attention at the 89th percentile but verifies reality at the 68th percentile among other robots. Hype Gap +21, 95th widest among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Well-capitalized with $140M raised and recent funding activity. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category 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.
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Last computed: Oct 2, 2026