Embodied AI Glossary中文TARS Robotics
它石智航TARSCommonA Shanghai embodied-AI company founded by former Huawei and Baidu autonomous-driving executives, training its AWE model mainly on human data.
TARS Robotics was founded in Shanghai in February 2025. CEO Yilun Chen previously served as CTO of Huawei's vehicle-BU autonomous-driving unit and as DJI's chief machine-vision engineer; chairman Zhenyu Li previously led Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group, overseeing Apollo and the Apollo Go robotaxi service; chief scientist Wenchao Ding was formerly a Huawei “Genius Youth” hire and a Fudan University researcher. The company's approach centers on human operation data: data collectors wear its custom capture rig while working in factories, supermarkets, and hotels, producing the WIYH dataset, used to train its general-purpose embodied foundation model, AWE (AWE 3.0 shipped in March 2026); its hardware includes the industrial A-series robots, the general-purpose T-series robots, and the TARS DexHand dexterous hand. In March 2025 it closed a $120 million angel round led by Lanchi Ventures and Qiming Venture Partners; it reportedly closed a $455 million Pre-A round in April 2026 co-led by Hillhouse and Sequoia China at a valuation of about RMB 13 billion.
ExampleAt WAIC 2026, TARS's booth used AWE 3.5 to drive a robot through automotive wiring-harness assembly.
- Also called
- TARS
- Related
- TARS Robotics AWE · World In Your Hands (WIYH) · Human Video Data · Wearable Data Collection · Autonomous-Driving Talent Moving into Embodied AI
- Sources
- 它石智航融资1.2亿美元，创下今年最大天使轮纪录（界面新闻，2025-03-26） (Chinese)
6个月内15家智能家居创企估值突破100亿（36氪） (Chinese)
arXiv 2512.24310: World In Your Hands - As of
- 2026-07