IDG Capital leads near-$100m seed round for nascent embodied AI startup PHYMI

Liu Nianqiu (刘念邱) founded embodied AI startup PHYMI in 2026 after spending over seven years at Shenzhen-based self-driving unicorn DeepRoute.ai as a vice president and partner. Photo from PHYMI

Eudora Wang

09 September, 2026

Edited by: Padma Priya

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