The brief

Analyst view

• Raised close to RMB 5B in four rounds from February to June 2026; valued at over RMB 20B after the April round.
• Backers named in reports include Sequoia China, Yunfeng, CATL, JD.com, Huawei, Xiaomi and TCL.
• Its Spirit v1.6 briefly topped the RoboArena benchmark in June 2026, then was removed for benchmark gaming.

Technical approach

As reported

Model

One model from camera to motor

Spirit models take camera images and an instruction and output arm and hand movements directly, not via separate vision, planning and control modules.

Data

Cheap real-world data at scale

The company says it cut data-collection cost to about a tenth of usual methods and had more than 200,000 hours of real interaction data by April 2026.

Body

Own robot with force-sensing joints

Moz1 uses in-house joints that sense and control force, so arms can push gently or firmly: key for cloth, cables and parts that must seat precisely.

Open

Open-sourced model

Spirit v1.5 was released openly in January 2026, letting outside labs test and build on it, a common way for robot-model makers to win developers.

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