The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Ropedia: 2 models, $30.0M raised. 3 sources back the record.
CategoryWearable AI
Overview
Singapore-based startup building data infrastructure for physical AI. Its HOMIE wearable head-mounted device captures first-person multimodal human experience data — video, depth, audio, hand tracking, gaze, and body motion — which is processed into structured datasets for training robotics and Embodied AI systems. The company's flagship dataset, Xperience-10M, is among the world's largest egocentric human experience datasets.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
Company-claimedPriced roundSeries A post-money
Key facts
HQ
Product
Model
CEO
Chief Scientist
NTU Singapore spin-off
Offices
Customers
Data collection rate
Hero image candidate
Data & sources
Web sources
3
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Models (2)
View all models →Current platform
HOMIE Data Capture Device
A 320g head-mounted wearable device with 360-degree camera view, four cameras, audio sensor, and motion unit for capturing first-person multimodal human experience data. HOMIE captures egocentric video, depth, audio, hand tracking, gaze, and body motion simultaneously, with each stream timestamped for training robotics and embodied AI systems.
Current platform
HOMIE Data Capture Device
Wearable hardware device for capturing real-world multimodal human interaction data (movement, sensing, manipulation), used to build structured datasets for training robotics and embodied AI foundation models.
Ropedia on the deployment map
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Current leadership (3)
- Zhaoxi Chen CEO & Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Fangzhou Hong CTO & Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Ziwei Liu Chief Scientist & Co-foundersecondary-verified
Founders (3)
- Zhaoxi Chencofounder
- Fangzhou Hongcofounder
- Ziwei Liucofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Ropedia.
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Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Ropedia in third-party press
Ropedia launches next-gen wearable capture device for robotic AI training data
Robots need real-world data, not just better hardware, says Ropedia Co-Founder [Q&A]
Singapore's AI facilitator Ropedia raises 2M pre-Series A for physical AI data infrastructure, 0m in total
Peers
144 peers across 1 segment. Every Ropedia competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- XDOFdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aescapedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allen Control Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amazondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Total funding
- $30.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
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Funding rounds (2)
Ropedia’s 2 disclosed rounds, $30M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series A2026-07-23
$22M(reported) · $132M post
- Seed2026-03-16
$8M(reported) · $32M post
Timeline
Every recorded move in Ropedia’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2026-07-23Series A raising $22000000
Funding roundSeed funding round
2026-03-16Seed raising $8000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 21, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Ropedia.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Ropedia from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Ropedia launches next-gen wearable capture device for robotic AI training data
Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. today announced the launch of HOMIE Gen2, the next generation of the company’s head-mounted wearable that…
Robots need real-world data, not just better hardware, says Ropedia Co-Founder [Q&A]
Q&A with CTO Fangzhou Hong on why Asia is becoming a Physical AI hub and how Singapore can lead in robotics training.
Singapore's AI facilitator Ropedia raises 2M pre-Series A for physical AI data infrastructure, 0m in total
TNGlobal reports Ropedia's 2M Pre-Series A, bringing total to 0M, with plans to expand data collection in SE Asia and North America.
SG's Ropedia bags 2m pre-Series A to scale data infra for physical AI
DealStreetAsia covers Ropedia's 2M Pre-Series A, noting investors with ties to Google, a16z, NVIDIA, and Amazon.
Ropedia raises 2M to scale data collection for training robots
The Robot Report covers Ropedia's 2M Pre-Series A funding and details on HOMIE wearable data capture device.
Ropedia Raises 30M in Pre-A Funding
FinSMEs reports Ropedia's 30M total Pre-A funding across two tranches, led by co-founders Zhaoxi Chen, Fangzhou Hong, and Ziwei Liu.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/ropedia.md
- RSS feed: /companies/ropedia/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/fe2909ff-8fbc-46a0-9bc6-d59d1f12b9fe
- Revision history: /companies/ropedia/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Video
Over the past decade, AI has been trained on internet-scale data — text, images, and videos. But intelligence in the physical world requires something different: experience. Ropedia introduces Xperience-10M — a dataset
Why is a Singapore-based firm raising $22M to record people's daily lives? It’s not for social media—it’s for 𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜. The robotics industry is
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
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
Ropedia draws attention at the 54th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among wearable robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Active fundraising activity with a recent closing. Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
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Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
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DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 5, 2026