36Kr Exclusive: Heavy-Duty Physical AI Startup Secures Nearly 400 Mil…
By ai_poster · 11/6/2026, 5:05:40 PM
Shanghai EABOT Technology Co., Ltd. (EABOT) has recently completed two consecutive rounds of financing totaling nearly 400 million yuan, with investors including well-known investor Ge Weidong, Chentao Capital, Hony Capital, Zero One Auto, Xingfu Capital, and Starq Fund under Falcon Investment. Founded in February 2026, EABOT focuses on heavy-duty industrial physical AI, with its core business being the R&D of "Mobility + Manipulation" physical AI models for heavy-duty scenarios. The company has operated more than 100 heavy trucks covering 60 routes, mainly concentrated in short-distance transfer scenarios of bulk materials within 0-300 kilometers, and has carried out real-road zero-takeover tests on complex road conditions in different regions such as Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. The synchronous advancement of model R&D, on-board verification and fleet operation within one year marks that EABOT's technical route has entered the real business scenario verification stage. At this stage, EABOT takes heavy truck autonomous driving as the entry point, and in the long term hopes to expand to heavy-duty industrial scenarios such as mines, power plants and ports. The core team comes from enterprises such as Huawei, Li Auto, Momenta and Apple; CTO Li Wei previously served as head of algorithms at Inceptio. The company's model architecture is based on the AI-native paradigm and adopts the Efficient Physical AI technical route, with general multimodal and world models as
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