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The Shenzhen-based startup, valued at roughly $3 billion, is preparing to go public amid a wave of Chinese robotics firms heading to Hong Kong's capital markets.
A company that didn’t exist three years ago is now sitting on a valuation of roughly $3 billion and eyeing a public listing. AI² Robotics, the Shenzhen-based humanoid robot maker founded in April 2023, is considering a Hong Kong IPO as it looks to capitalize on surging investor appetite for automation and AI-driven industrial solutions.
From zero to $3 billion in three years #
AI² Robotics’ trajectory has been, to put it mildly, aggressive. Founded by Yandong Guo, the company builds wheeled humanoid robots called AlphaBot and develops an AI system known as the Alpha Brain VLA model, both designed for industrial applications.
The financial milestones tell the story. The company completed a Series B funding round of approximately $144 million at a valuation of roughly $1.45 billion. Then in June 2026, it raised between $735 million and $738 million in a round that pushed the valuation to approximately $2.8 billion to $3 billion.
Total funding raised now exceeds $890 million.
The company completed a joint-stock reform in April 2026, a procedural step in China that is widely understood as a precursor to filing for an IPO.
CEO Yandong Guo first signaled the public listing ambitions back in September 2025, stating plans to take the company public within one to two years in response to increasing industrial demand.
Real contracts, real robots #
The company secured a deal to deliver over 1,000 humanoid robots across three years to HKC Corporation, a semiconductor firm. That’s a multi-year supply agreement with a major industrial customer.
The AlphaBot robots are designed for industrial environments, think factory floors and manufacturing lines, rather than consumer-facing humanoid robots.
Hong Kong’s robotics IPO pipeline #
AI² Robotics isn’t operating in a vacuum. Several other Chinese robotics companies, including AgiBot and EngineAI, are in various stages of filing for Hong Kong listings.
AI² Robotics has not formally confirmed its own IPO filing yet. But between the joint-stock reform, the massive fundraising rounds, and the CEO’s public statements about a one-to-two-year timeline for going public, the direction of travel is fairly clear.
What this means for investors #
The $2.8 billion to $3 billion private valuation gives a rough baseline for where AI² Robotics might price a public offering. The company more than doubled its valuation between its Series B and its June 2026 round.
The HKC Corporation contract provides demonstrable commercial traction: over 1,000 units across three years is a meaningful order book, and it signals that at least one major industrial buyer believes the technology works at scale.
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