Embodied-AI startup PaXini raises RMB1 billion to scale tactile-sensing technology

PokeBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in a pre-A round led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners. The months-old company is developing household robots for tasks including clothes folding and cooking. A demonstration showed one of its robots autonomously cooking mapo tofu in nine minutes. [TechNode reporting]

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PokeBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in a pre-A round led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners. The months-old company is developing household robots for tasks including clothes folding and cooking. A demonstration showed one of its robots autonomously cooking mapo tofu in nine minutes. [TechNode reporting]

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