AI² Robotics

A Shenzhen general-purpose embodied-robot company behind the GOVLA model and the AlphaBot humanoid.

AI² Robotics was founded in Shenzhen in early 2023. Its founder, Yandong Guo, holds a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, worked as a Microsoft researcher, and later served as chief scientist at XPeng Motors and OPPO. The company builds its own embodied foundation model, GOVLA (Global & Omni-body Vision-Language-Action, also called AlphaBrain), and its hardware is the AlphaBot (“Aibao”) line of wheeled dual-arm humanoid robots, aimed mainly at factory settings in semiconductors, automotive, and display-panel manufacturing; it reportedly signed a three-year, 1,000-unit order with display maker HKC. In February 2026 it closed a Series B round of more than RMB 1 billion at a valuation above RMB 10 billion, and on June 29 it announced a further series of rounds totaling nearly RMB 5 billion, at a valuation above RMB 20 billion.

ExampleIn a display-panel factory, AlphaBot moves material trays and loads and unloads parts, driven by the GOVLA model.

Also called

AI Squared Robotics

Related

GOVLA (Global & Omni-body Vision-Language-Action) · AI² Robotics AlphaBot · Vision-Language-Action Model · Wheeled Humanoid Robot · Real-world Deployment

Sources

具身公司智平方融资估值超200亿元（财新） (Chinese)
智平方成粤港澳大湾区首个估值200亿具身智能独角兽（电子工程专辑） (Chinese)

As of

2026-06