Chinese embodied intelligence startup LimX Dynamics has secured $200 million in a Series B round of financing from investors including Dubai-based Stone Venture to fuel its business expansion in China and overseas.
LimX Dynamics, which specialises in full-size, general-purpose humanoid robots, secured the new financing from investment firms, industry leaders, and existing shareholders, the startup announced on Monday.
Besides Stone Venture, a long list of Chinese investment firms participated in the Series B round, such as Oriental Fortune Capital, CoStone Capital, Tianjin Venture Capital, and GF Xinde Investment.
Strategic corporate investors of the deal included Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, sealing parts producer Anhui Zhongding Sealing Parts, automotive bearings maker Changzhou NRB Corp, and industrial Ethernet tech company Kyland Technology.
Existing shareholders such as Shang Qi Capital, an investment arm of Chinese state-owned automaker SAIC Motor Corp; NIO Capital, and Future Capital also doubled down through the deal.
The Shenzhen-based startup develops embodied intelligence, which is the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into physical robotic bodies that can perceive, learn, and act in the real world. This sector is rapidly transitioning from lab experiments to industrial and commercial deployment in China.
Founded in 2022, LimX Dynamics focuses on three core technologies, namely hardware design and manufacturing, reinforcement learning (RL)-based motion control, and embodied AI training paradigms. Its products and technologies are built to serve innovators, developers, and system integrators to accelerate embodied AI research, development, and real-world deployment across fields such as research, manufacturing, business, and household services.
In 2026, the startup plans to further step up its investment in product R&D and market expansion.
The past two months saw the startup debut two new products, including the shape-shifting embodied robot “Tron 2,” which can be configured to allow for transitions among a dual-armed biped, a wheeled-leg form, and a sole-feet setup for specific research and industrial requirements.
LimX Dynamics also introduced “LimX COSA,” an agentic operating system (OS) that unifies high-level cognition with whole-body motion control, enabling humanoid robots to think while acting in real environments.
As its biggest funding round to date, the Series B deal follows the completion of its Series A and A+ rounds in early 2025, through which the startup raised a combined 500 million yuan ($72 million) from investors including Alibaba Group and China Merchants Venture.
It raised nearly 200 million yuan ($28.8 million) in the angel and pre-Series A rounds in October 2023. FreesFund, Future Capital, and Vitalbridge Capital were among its early backers.
