INSPIRE ROBOTS recently completed Series C1 and C2 financing rounds, totaling hundreds of millions of RMB.
Both rounds attracted core industry strategic investors and top-tier market-oriented investment institutions, reflecting strong market recognition of the company’s technological strength and commercial prospects in the dexterous hand sector. Details:
Series C1 was co-led by China Mobile Chain Fund and Shenzhen Capital Group (SCG), with participation from Botrend Capital, Fortune Capital, and Spring Capital.
Series C2 was led by Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, with participation from Qiming Venture Partners, Botrend Capital, Spring Capital, Jinshi Digital Economy Fund, and TCL Ventures.
This financing will accelerate the company’s R&D in dexterous manipulation technology and innovation in core component products; further consolidate its industry-leading position and continuously improve product delivery capabilities; and actively expand global market presence to drive commercialization.
Since its founding in 2016, INSPIRE ROBOTS has been dedicated to the R&D and innovation of dexterous hand technology. As a pioneer in China’s dexterous hand sector, the company has received multiple grants from the National Key R&D Program and has been selected for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s “Revealing and Leading” project. Leveraging its outstanding technological capabilities, INSPIRE ROBOTS became the first in China to achieve mass production and commercial deployment of domestically produced dexterous hands. After a decade of iteration, the company has completed full-stack technology accumulation for dexterous hands—covering software and hardware—and has achieved in-house R&D and production of core upstream components such as miniaturized motors, planetary roller screws, reducers, and sensors—a rare capability in the industry. Additionally, the company has developed comprehensive testing and mass-production processes, establishing standards for salt spray, high/low temperature, vibration, and waterproof testing tailored to various high-intensity and complex industrial and data-collection operating conditions. Product reliability leads the industry, making it the optimal solution for embodied AI deployment.
INSPIRE ROBOTS now offers multiple dexterous hand product series, spanning high, medium, and low degrees of freedom and covering a wide range of application scenarios. These address both the high-reliability and mass-production needs of embodied AI companies and, through high-DOF product lines, support cutting-edge research and development. Beyond the linkage solution, the company is simultaneously advancing tendon-driven and direct-drive technologies across the full stack.
The company boasts a extensive global customer network. While experiencing explosive growth in the domestic market, its business footprint has expanded to the United States, Canada, Europe, and beyond, having successfully completed early-stage validation and achieved large-scale shipments. In 2025, INSPIRE ROBOTS delivered over 10,000 dexterous hands, with a market share far surpassing competitors, further cementing its benchmark status in the industry.
Notably, at the 2026 Spring Festival Gala (Year of the Horse), INSPIRE ROBOTS’ dexterous hand made a successful appearance in the sketch “Grandma’s Favorite.” Behind this debut on a national stage lies the product’s high stability and outstanding quality during high-frequency demonstrations, bringing the core advantages of domestically produced dexterous hands into the view of hundreds of millions of viewers.
Looking ahead, INSPIRE ROBOTS will build on long-term technology investment and engineering capabilities to drive the dexterous hand industry toward higher reliability and stronger performance, providing critical support for the large-scale application of robots.
China Mobile Chain Fund is an industrial development fund initiated by China Mobile. Its investment strategy closely aligns with national strategic directions and China Mobile’s development plans, targeting the “9+6” emerging and future industries and continuously building an open, collaborative industrial investment ecosystem centered on “AI+.” As robots are important carriers for “AI+” scenario integration, the fund prioritizes robotics as a key investment area, having established a full-industry-chain investment portfolio covering “embodied intelligence — robot manufacturing — core components,” contributing to the development of a self-sufficient and controllable industrial ecosystem.
Shenzhen Capital Group (SCG) is a state-owned comprehensive investment group with venture capital at its core. Guided by the mission to “discover and nurture great enterprises” and the vision to “become a world-class investment institution,” SCG is dedicated to being a discoverer and cultivator of innovation value, as well as a pioneer and leader in China’s venture capital industry.
Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund has a scale of 10 billion RMB and is co-managed by Beijing Guoshun Xihui Fund and Qiming Venture Partners. The fund makes direct equity investments in alignment with Beijing’s overall AI industry strategy.
Qiming Venture Partners focuses on investing in early-stage and growth-stage outstanding companies in technology, healthcare innovation, and other sectors. The firm has invested in over 580 high-growth innovative companies, with more than 210 having gone public on major global exchanges or exited through M&A. Qiming is one of the earliest and most active venture capital institutions in Asia to invest in AI, having progressively built a full-industry-chain investment portfolio spanning infrastructure, model layers, and application layers.
Botrend Capital is a market-oriented investment platform established by the Bosch Group focused on China’s deep technology sector. Leveraging Bosch’s global business network and R&D resources, Botrend Capital is committed to driving the reconstruction and upgrading of China’s manufacturing supply chain with deep technology as the core driving force, helping domestic industries achieve global expansion and ecosystem integration along the value chain. Through the integration of capital and industry, Botrend Capital aims to foster the implementation and growth of innovative technologies within China’s manufacturing system, bringing long-term strategic value and international development momentum to China’s deep technology industry.
