By Su Da
RealMan Intelligent Technology, a developer and manufacturer of humanoid robotic arms, recently announced the completion of a financing round that raised nearly 500 million yuan ($72.5 million), with strategic investments from industrial investors linked to prominent publicly listed companies.
The funds will be primarily invested in three areas to establish a robust ecosystem: product research, development, and iteration; construction of the Autron production line and its flagship super factory; deepening the company’s global ecosystem strategy of “hardware + data + remote operation network.”
Data from Tianyancha, a Chinese corporate information database, shows that since its founding in 2018 RealMan has completed six funding rounds, with the latest round bringing it to Series B.
RealMan recently disclosed that its revenue has tripled for three consecutive years and its operating cash flow is expected to have turned positive in 2025. It said this round of financing is not simply about raising money but about deepening strategic collaboration. The introduction of industrial capital from several well-known listed companies indicates that the firm’s technological roadmap and product definitions have undergone thorough validation throughout the industrial chain.
Global reach
RealMan’s website says the company is built around three foundational capability “flywheels”: hardware, data, and remote operations networks. These link the entire development path from power joints to robotic arms and full robot systems, from reconfiguring human labor capacity across time and space through networks to building data assets, and from global robot super factories to a broader ecosystem. The aim is to continually advance embodied intelligence technologiesand accelerate the vision of robots serving human society.
Since taking its first step toward going global in 2024, RealMan’s business now covers Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. The company has established partnerships with global enterprises and institutions includingSamsung Electronics, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Siemens, Amazon, and ETH Zurich, and currently serves more than 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide. It has accumulated extensive operational experience in industrial automation, research and education, and commercial services, supporting global intelligent manufacturing and innovation applications.
The company has completed compliance testing with German technical testing, inspection, and certification organisation TÜV SÜD and obtained EU regulatory compliance certifications RoHS and REACH certifications.
Its robotic arms have also obtained China’s CR L3 certification, with a mean time between failures of 50,000 hours.The robots can perform real-life tasks such as exerting 14 kilograms of instantaneous force to open refrigerator and washing machine doors, comparable to the force used by an adult male pulling a door open. This marks a fundamental leap in robotics hardware from “usable” to “reliable and durable,” laying the physical foundation for collecting high-quality real-world robot data.
Serving human society
The company’s Beijing humanoid robot data training center, equipped with 108 embodied robot units and 10 real-world application scenarios, has already accumulated tens of millions of trajectory segments covering more than 1,000 tasks. It also recently announced the open-sourcing of the world’s first high-quality real-robot dataset with the largest number of modalities, aimed at breaking data bottlenecks in robotics development.
RealMan said that in 2026 the Autron production-line system will support flexible, co-line, and large-scale manufacturing, enabling annual production capacity of more than 1 million joint modules. This leap in mass production capacity will serve as a key pillar supporting the company’s global expansion.
In the era of Physical AI, scalable and reliable hardware along with high-quality, scenario-based data are prerequisites for the industry’s rapid growth. Once robots truly gain the ability to operate in the physical world, society could see a restructuring of productivity and a leap in efficiency.
RealMan said it will continue increasing investment in embodied intelligence infrastructure and real-world data systems, supporting global supply with million-scale production capacity and connecting the physical world through its GLN remote operations network, while working with global partners to build a new embodied intelligence ecosystem and accelerate the vision of robots serving human society.
Source: caijingtuya
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