Spirit AI

A Hangzhou embodied-AI company building the Moz1 humanoid and the open-source Spirit VLA model.

Spirit AI was registered in Hangzhou in January 2024. Founder and CEO Fengtao Han previously co-founded the industrial-robot maker ROKAE as its CTO; co-founder and chief scientist Yang Gao is an assistant professor at Tsinghua's IIIS with a PhD from UC Berkeley; co-founder and COO Lingyin Zheng leads commercialization. It builds both hardware and models: its humanoid, Moz1, emphasizes whole-body force control, while its VLA model, Spirit v1.5, open-sourced in January 2026, ranked first on the RoboChallenge Table30 real-robot leaderboard at release. Its data philosophy favors “messy data,” including failures and retries, over heavy cleaning. Fundraising has been intense: two rounds in February 2026 totaling nearly RMB 2 billion, another RMB 1 billion in April co-led by Shunwei Capital and Yunfeng Capital, and a RMB 1.5 billion Series A+ round in June — four rounds in roughly three months. Media often cite a cumulative “nearly RMB 5 billion,” though the disclosed amounts add up to about RMB 4.5 billion; valuation had already passed RMB 20 billion by April. It reportedly already does connector-insertion work on a CATL production line.

ExampleAt WAIC 2026, after being told to “tidy up the living room,” Moz1 put a can of cola in the fridge and loaded dirty bowls into the dishwasher on its own, with the screen showing how it broke the task down in real time.

Also called

Qianxun

Related

Spirit v1.5 · Vision-Language-Action Model · Humanoid Robot · RoboChallenge · University / Big-Tech / Autonomous-Driving Founder Lineage

Sources

千寻智能官网新闻（发展历程） (Chinese)
首发 | 3个月近50亿，千寻打破具身融资纪录（投资界，2026-06） (Chinese)
千寻智能韩峰涛：我们坚持使用「脏数据」（证券时报网，2026-07-20） (Chinese)
千寻智能再获10亿元融资，顺为资本和云锋基金联合领投（澎湃新闻，2026-04-07） (Chinese)
千寻智能完成15亿元A+轮融资（中国基金报，2026-06-03） (Chinese)

As of

2026-07