PokeBot closes a nine-figure robot round

PokeBot closed a hundred-million-dollar-level Pre-A round four months after its April founding, with Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners China co-leading, according to AI Tech Review’s Chinese-language exclusive; the source describes the scale rather than an exact dollar close. The embodied-AI startup had already shown a robot completing a nine-minute, long-horizon mapo-tofu cooking task using its world-action-model, real-robot reinforcement-learning, and data flywheel. Set against the nearly $2 billion already chasing world-model companies, the signal for operators is narrower: capital is moving from robots that can travel through a room toward systems that can reliably manipulate what is inside it.