Lightwheel

A company building simulation assets, synthetic data, and evaluation tools for robot training, a 2026 unicorn.

Lightwheel was founded in January 2023, registered in Beijing; its founder and CEO, Chen Xie, graduated from Peking University and Columbia University and previously led autonomous-driving simulation at NVIDIA, Cruise, and NIO. It supplies simulation assets (3D objects and scenes with physical properties, ready to drop directly into a simulator), synthetic data, and simulation-based evaluation for robot training: it worked with NVIDIA to develop the Isaac Lab-Arena evaluation framework, open-sourced LeIsaac, a simulated-teleoperation tool for the SO-101 arm, and released the industrial-grade evaluation platform RoboFinals in December 2025. In March 2026 it closed combined Series A++ and A+++ funding of RMB 1 billion, with investors including New Hope Group; the company says this made it the first unicorn in the embodied-data space.

ExampleA researcher can use LeIsaac to teleoperate a simulated SO-101 in Isaac Lab with a real leader arm, then fine-tune a GR00T policy on the collected data.

Also called

Lightwheel AI

Related

Simulation Data · Synthetic Data · SimReady Assets · NVIDIA Isaac Lab-Arena · RoboFinals (Lightwheel industrial-grade simulation evaluation platform) · LeIsaac

Sources

界面新闻：光轮智能完成10亿元融资 (Chinese)
Lightwheel: RoboFinals
GitHub: LightwheelAI/leisaac

As of

2026-03