Overview
Chinese AI/robotics startup. $146.8M Series A (May 2026). AI and robotics technology development.. Series A: $146.8M (May 2026).
Reality check
Visics model (company-claimed)
Founded December 2024 to build Visics, a proprietary model for cross-embodiment dexterous manipulation.
Data and stack (company-claimed)
Combines multi-modal physics simulation and internet-scale video data with an integrated hardware-software stack.
Leadership (company-claimed)
Tian Ye (founder, CEO, ex-Apple AI Platform), Shao Lin (founder, chief scientist, NUS), co-founders Liu Penghai (ex-Ecovacs) and Wang Tao (ex-SenseTime Guoxiang Capital).
Visics release (company-claimed)
A Visics model release is noted for June 2026.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Funding (company-stated)
Data & sources
Web sources
2
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Models (1)
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Ye Tian CEOsecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for RoboScience.
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
RoboScience in third-party press
Mentioned on (1)
Registry pages whose text names RoboScience.
People (1)
Funding rounds (1)
- Series A2026-05-01
Investors: Long Capital (follow), Radiant Tech Ventures (follow), 01VC (lead), JD.com (follow), China Merchants Venture (follow), Puhua Capital (follow), Fortune Venture Capital (follow), Dacheng Capital (follow), Changshi Capital (follow), Hong Kong WiseTech Innovation (follow), Tianqi Capital (follow), China Merchants Capital (follow)
Timeline
Every recorded move in RoboScience’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2026-05-01Series A
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 22, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-13
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-13
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for RoboScience.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning RoboScience from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Tencent Cloud partners with robot AI startup RoboScience
RoboScience Unveils Visics, a General-Purpose Embodied AI Model
May Embodied AI Financing: Hype Recedes, Mass Production Accelerates
After Missing the AI Era, Can JD.com Avoid Playing a Minor Role in Embodied Intelligence?
The engineer who swears by CFD and uses F1 tech to solve real-world problems
China’s Robotics Revenue Soars as Industry Races to Crack Embodied AI
AI in China – after the DeepSeek moment
Thanks to the full support of the Chinese government, a large amount of funds are flocking to Chines..
National-level roboscience competition ‘Sarvavidya Fest 2024’ concludes in Coimbatore
New Robot Dog Called 'PC on Legs'
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/roboscience.md
- RSS feed: /companies/roboscience/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/9cf959e5-48b3-405e-a375-3def1cd36419
- Revision history: /companies/roboscience/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious50/100
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
RoboScience draws attention at the 27th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
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: Nov 3, 2026