China’s Deep Robotics raises US$70 million in fresh funds as sector draws more investors

Deep Robotics – one of the “Six Little Dragons” from Hangzhou, the capital of eastern Zhejiang province – on Tuesday said it had raised 500 million yuan (US$70 million) in fresh funding from a group of Chinese investors.

According to the company’s statement, its latest round of financing was led by CMB International, China Asset Management and funds under state-owned telecommunications network operators China Telecom and China Unicom.

Deep Robotics founder and CEO Zhu Qiuguo, who also serves as an associate professor and PhD adviser at Zhejiang University, said the new funding would be used for research and the recruitment of top robotics talent.

The start-up, whose Hangzhou-based peers include Unitree Robotics and DeepSeek, was founded in 2017 and has become one of China’s leading developers of quadruped robot dogs and humanoids.

Its latest funding round underscored the sharpened focus of venture capital firms and institutional investors in China’s fast-growing robotics sector.