# Ropedia: robotics company

Canonical ID: `fe2909ff-8fbc-46a0-9bc6-d59d1f12b9fe`

## Key facts

- **Funding:** [$30M pre-A (Jul 2026, total)](/investors.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **HQ:** Singapore
- **Product:** HOMIE wearable capture devices + Xperience-10M dataset
- **Model:** Data infrastructure layer for physical AI
- **CEO:** [Zhaoxi Chen](/people/zhaoxi-chen.md)
- **CTO:** [Fangzhou Hong](/people/fangzhou-hong.md)
- **Chief Scientist:** [Ziwei Liu](/people/ziwei-liu.md)
- **NTU Singapore spin-off:** Yes
- **Offices:** Singapore; Mountain View, CA
- **Customers:** 20+ robotics and foundation model companies
- **Data collection rate:** ~1,000 hours/week, 100,000 total hours
- **Hero image candidate:** https://ropedia.com/one_device_hardware.png (source: official press kit)

- **Slug:** ropedia
- **Founded:** 2025
- **HQ:** Singapore, Singapore
- **Funding total (USD):** 30000000
- **Category:** [Wearable AI](/wearable-ai)

## Models

- [HOMIE Data Capture Device](/models/homie.md) (wearable) (id: `86054b5e-1002-47e2-bb2b-8cdfbc52f43f`)
- [HOMIE Data Capture Device](/models/homie-data-capture.md) (wearable) (id: `f9f1e237-c205-43fa-ad54-52e61f33e664`)

## Current leadership (3)

- [Zhaoxi Chen](/people/zhaoxi-chen.md) CEO & Co-founder (secondary-verified)
- [Fangzhou Hong](/people/fangzhou-hong.md) CTO & Co-founder (secondary-verified)
- [Ziwei Liu](/people/ziwei-liu.md) Chief Scientist & Co-founder (secondary-verified)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

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## Common questions

### What is Ropedia?

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.

### What does Ropedia make?

Ropedia has 2 robot models on the DEPLOY registry: HOMIE Data Capture Device, HOMIE Data Capture Device (Ropedia builds physical robots).

### Where is Ropedia headquartered?

Ropedia is headquartered in Singapore, Singapore.

### How much funding has Ropedia raised?

Ropedia has raised approximately $30M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Where does Ropedia operate robots?

Ropedia is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### When was Ropedia founded?

Ropedia was founded in 2025.


## Sources (3)

1. https://www.finsmes.com/2026/07/ropedia-raises-30m-in-pre-a-funding.html
2. https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/08/03/ropedia-raises-30m-to-scale-data-infrastructure-for-physical-ai/
3. https://aipressroom.com/ropedia-30m-physical-ai/

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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