"Yuequan Bionic" received hundreds of millions of yuan in financing, mass-produced 10,000 units of bionic tensile and compression body dexterous hands, and ordered over 100 million yuan

Text | Hu Xiangyun Editor | Hai Ruojing 36Kr exclusively learned that recently, Yuequan Bionic has completed several hundred million yuan in Pre-A+ round financing. This round of financing was jointly invested by Changfa Fund, Huakong Fund, China Asset Management, Guoli Minsheng, Xingke Venture Capital Fund, etc., and the old shareholder Zhongguancun Qihang Investment followed the investment. According to reports, the funds raised in this round will be used for Yuequan Bionic team building, core product technology research and development and production capacity improvement, as well as strengthening full-stack self-research capabilities, building a complete technology system, promoting the research and development of super bionic neuroskeletal muscle robots, and creating a "brain-body-environment" integrated bionic embodied intelligence system. Currently, the humanoid robot track has passed the initial prototype display stage and has gradually entered a key turning point for commercialization. As the core component of the interaction between robots and the real world, dexterous hands have become the core direction of capital investment. In the first quarter of this year alone, the total financing amount of domestic dexterous hand companies was close to 5 billion yuan. Behind the noise, to some extent, dexterous hand products are also falling into a state of "involution" in which they compete with hardware parameters such as freedom and torque. It is difficult for traditional rigid structures to take into account lightweight, gripping strength and operating accuracy at the same time. When faced with soft and fragile objects, they are inherently "clumsy". But usually, if you want to achieve precise operation, you have to sacrifice load capacity, and improving durability will significantly increase costs. Therefore, you are always trapped in the contradiction between performance, cost, and reliability. If you want to truly break the existing bottleneck, you need to redesign the underlying mechanical structure. Therefore, companies that possess original bionic underlying technologies and realize self-research on the entire chain of software and hardware may become the core force in the next stage of industrial development. Yuequan Bionic is one of the representative companies. Yuequan Bionic relies on the "bionic tension and compression body robot theory and technology" proposed by Professor Ren Lei, a Yangtze River Scholar from the Ministry of Education and a tenured professor at the University of Manchester in the UK, to complete the transformation of scientific research results. In layman's terms, this set of bionic tension-compression body technology completely imitates the logic of human bones, muscles, and ligaments working together. The hard components mainly bear pressure and the flexible components mainly bear tension. This basic theoretical level innovation fundamentally changes the movement logic of traditional robots. Relying on this original underlying technology, Yuequan Bionic has