Chinese robotics company Ruoyu Technology has completed a Pre-A financing round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, with the funding disclosed on October 15, 2026. Sunway Communication led the investment, with participation from Jinmu Capital, Qindao Capital, Huanghai Capital, and Zhongchuang Capital. The Shenzhen-based company plans to use the capital to advance its robot intelligence platform and expand its industrial deployment.
Funding and Development Priorities
Founded in 2023, Ruoyu Technology develops control and decision-making systems designed to help robots operate in demanding physical environments. Founder and CEO Sun Teng said the financing would support full-stack robot brain research, the collection and use of operational data, and commercialization. The company did not disclose an exact transaction amount or its valuation.
Rather than concentrating initially on general-purpose demonstrations, Ruoyu Technology has focused on specialized applications where reliability and safety requirements are particularly demanding. Its first major use case involves automated vehicle refueling, which requires robots to handle changing outdoor conditions and potentially hazardous surroundings. The company sees these deployments as opportunities to test its technology against problems that controlled laboratory settings may not reproduce.
Testing Intelligence in Real-World Conditions
Automated refueling introduces technical constraints related to explosive atmospheres, temperature fluctuations, positioning accuracy, and interaction with vehicles. Ruoyu Technology has obtained explosion-proof certification as part of its efforts to meet the requirements of these environments. Such constraints influence choices about sensors, onboard computing, communications, and the distribution of processing tasks.
In April 2026, the company began trial operations at a pilot site in Foshan, China. Ruoyu Technology reported a high success rate for refueling tasks involving specified vehicle models in open environments, although it did not provide a precise percentage. It said manual intervention was reserved for abnormal situations, while testing exposed issues that had not appeared in laboratory development.
Developing the Robot Brain Platform
The company's central product is the Ruoyu Jiutian Robot Brain, a system intended to coordinate perception, planning, and robotic execution. Its architecture separates functions across cloud infrastructure, edge computing, and onboard devices, assigning immediate safety controls closer to the robot. Higher-level planning and model development can then draw on information collected during field operations.
Ruoyu Technology describes this approach as an integrated system combining robot intelligence, hardware, and scenario-specific data. With customer authorization and appropriate safeguards, selected operating data is anonymized and transferred for analysis and model improvement. The company uses a combination of semi-automated data processing and human review to prepare information for further development.
The broader product offering also includes modular hardware systems known as Ruoyu Lanyue and Ruoyu Zhaixing. These components are designed to work alongside the company's software while accommodating different operational requirements. By standardizing underlying modules, Ruoyu Technology intends to reduce the need to redesign an entire robot for each new deployment.
Commercialization and Expansion
Ruoyu Technology ultimately wants to apply capabilities developed in refueling to other industrial settings, including charging, port operations, and patrol work. These environments present different tasks, but they share needs for robust perception, dependable control, and responses to unexpected conditions. The company believes experience gained under strict safety constraints could support that expansion.
However, moving from successful trials to broader commercialization will require evidence that the platform can perform reliably across sites and conditions. The company has not disclosed figures for revenue, customer contracts, deployment scale, or commercial rollout timelines. Those measures will be important in assessing whether its field-tested approach can become a repeatable business.
Ruoyu Technology's Pre-A financing provides additional resources for developing its robotic intelligence systems and pursuing deployment beyond initial trials. Its focus on high-risk refueling environments distinguishes its development strategy from approaches centered on general-purpose demonstrations. The next test will be whether technology refined at its Foshan pilot can be deployed consistently across additional industrial applications.
Source: 36Kr