Name

Lingchu Intelligence

Legal name

Shanghai PsiBot Technology Co., Ltd. (上海灵初智能科技有限公司)

Website

https://psibot.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Lingchu Intelligence (灵初智能 / PsiBot) is a Shanghai-based embodied AI startup building hierarchical Vision-Language-Action foundation models, simulation and data platforms, and dexterous robotic hardware for B2B deployment in manufacturing, retail, and logistics. Its competitive position rests on a 100,000-hour human operation dataset, top-ranked benchmark performance, and a vertically integrated algorithms-to-hardware stack.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Embodied AI Robotics

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Measuring & Controlling Devices, Nec (3829)

akta.pro primary industry

Robot Software, Autonomy Stacks & Simulation (ROS, digital twins) (HDAAAIAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Robot Hardware, Actuators & Components (sensors, grippers, motors) (HDAAAIAL), Robotic Process Automation (RPA) & Hyperautomation Platforms (HDAEAKAF), Human-Robot Interaction & Teleoperation Systems (HDAAAIAM)

Keywords

• Embodied AI platforms
• Dexterous robotics
• VLA models
• Humanoid robots
• Warehouse automation

Headquarters

HQ city

Haidian

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sales: Sale of robotic hardware platforms including PsiBot V1 (mobile manipulator), Psi H1 (dexterous hand), Psi E1 (homomorphic exoskeleton), ψ-SynRobot (mass-produced industrial robot), and SynGlove (data collection glove). Direct hardware unit sales to enterprise and research customers.
2. B2B Enterprise Solutions & Integration: Customized embodied AI deployment and integration services for leading enterprises across manufacturing, retail, and cross-border logistics. Includes scenario-driven skill set development, hardware-software coupling, and ongoing technology commercialization partnerships.
3. Data Collection & Partnership Services: Data collection factory operations (in partnership with Beijing Shijingshan District), high-quality embodied AI training data generation, and ecosystem partnerships with data platforms (Mifeng Technology, Zhiyu Jishi). Provides scalable real-world operational data to support model iteration.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Lingchu Intelligence (PsiBot) builds and sells a vertically integrated embodied AI platform: proprietary Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation models trained with reinforcement learning (Psi R0/R0.5/R1/R2, Psi-W0), simulation and data-collection software (Psi Sim, Psi Data), and full-stack robotic hardware (PsiBot V1 wheeled humanoid, Psi H1 tactile dexterous hand, Psi E1 exoskeleton, ψ-SynRobot mass-produced whole-machine platform, Synglove teleoperation glove). Solutions are deployed for B2B enterprise customers in general industry, retail/logistics, and manufacturing, with phased future expansion into consumer home use. The platform targets general-purpose dexterous manipulation with high generalization, high dexterity, and high task success rate.

Product overview

Lingchu Intelligence (PsiBot) is a leading Chinese embodied-AI company that delivers a vertically integrated platform combining proprietary VLA/RL foundation models with software tools and full-stack robotic hardware. The platform centers on a hierarchical end-to-end fast/slow brain architecture spanning algorithms (Psi R0, R0.5, R1, R2, Psi W0, plus sub-models DexGraspVLA, Retrieval Dexterity, ExDex, SafeVLA, Align-DS-V, and Align-Anything), software (Psi Sim for simulation/IL+RL training and Sim2Real transfer; Psi Data for human/robot data collection), and hardware (Psi V1 wheeled humanoid, Psi H1 tactile dexterous hand, Psi E1 anthropomorphic exoskeleton, the mass-produced ψ-SynRobot whole-machine platform, and the Synglove teleoperation glove). All products are designed around three pillars: high generalization, high dexterity, and high success rate, and are deployed across general industry, retail & logistics, and home service scenarios.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SynGlove: PsiBot's isomorphic exoskeleton dexterous hand teleoperation glove, marketed under a separate subdomain (syn-glove-product.psibot.net).
• ψ-SynRobot

Products and services

• Psi R0 Industry's first end-to-end reinforcement learning embodied VLA foundation model that supports complex dual-handed manipulation through skill-chained joint training, enabling cross-object and cross-scenario generalization with as few as 20 real-world data samples (99%+ success on a Pringles can). Designed for deployment in real e-commerce packaging workstations and dexterous manipulation tasks.
• Psi R0.5 Enhanced hierarchical end-to-end VLA model achieving full object and scene generalization with only ~2 hours of grasping data (250x more data-efficient than Figure Helix). Supports language-driven multi-target sorting, Chain-of-Thought long-horizon planning, stacked-object retrieval, pose closed-loop correction, and integrates the SafeVLA safety alignment model for an 83.58% safety compliance improvement via CMDP-based training.
• Psi R1 First reinforcement learning-driven VLA model with Chain of Action Thought (CoAT) architecture, maintaining 30+ minutes of continuous reasoning-action chains. Slow Brain (S2) consumes Action Tokens for closed-loop multimodal reasoning across vision, language, and action; Fast Brain (S1) executes dexterous manipulation. Validates VLA Test-Time Scaling with self-verification and reflection.
• Psi-R2 World Action Model World Action Model built on the Wan2.2-IT2V-5B-480P video-generation backbone, pretrained on 5,417 hours of Psi-MobiDex robot data and 95,472 hours of human data covering 294 scenes, 4,821 tasks, and 1,382 objects. Outputs both future video frames and executable robot actions; ranked #1 globally on the Molmospace embodied intelligence benchmark.
• Psi-W0 Action-Conditioned World Model Action-Conditioned World Model that takes visual observations, language instructions, and robot action trajectories as input and predicts future video frames. Enables counterfactual reasoning for policy evaluation, reinforcement learning within the world model, and human-to-robot data translation for closed-loop data flywheel construction with Psi-R2.
• Psi Sim Simulation platform supporting high-efficiency reinforcement learning task training, an end-to-end closed-loop system combining teleoperation (remote collection), imitation learning, and reinforcement learning, plus a Sim-to-Real pipeline with high-fidelity environments providing consistent dynamics with real-world deployment for low-cost transfer.
• Psi Data Data collection and annotation platform combined with self-developed exoskeleton equipment. Self-built data collection sites continuously output high-quality real-world dexterous manipulation data, with collection and annotation efficiency above 500 items per day per person. Integrates Psi-W0 for automated data quality scoring.
• PsiBot V1 (Psi V1) Wheeled mobile-base robot with a humanoid upper body and PsiBot's proprietary five-finger tactile dexterous hand, featuring 32 degrees of freedom. Designed for enterprise-level deployment across services, logistics, and manufacturing industries as an economical combination of efficient mobility and precise manipulation.
• PsiBot H1 (Psi H1) The industry's only dexterous hand with deep-coupling manipulation algorithm. Features full-hand tactile sensing, real-time force feedback, 3D tactile perception at the fingertips, slip-locking adaptive force control, and precision force control for safe grasping of fragile objects like tofu and puffed corn snacks.
• PsiBot E1 (Psi E1) Homomorphic anthropomorphic exoskeleton teleoperation system with a 16-DOF exoskeleton glove, 2x RM75-6F humanoid robotic arms, and PsiBot-EXO-Arm-RM75 exoskeleton arms. Uses joint 1:1 precise mapping design so wearing the glove controls every joint of the robotic hand; enables 1:1 real-world data mapping for dexterous manipulation data collection.
• ψ-SynRobot (SynRobot) Self-developed whole-machine general-purpose robot platform launched with mass production for complex logistics, retail, and industrial scenarios. Features an operation-execution plus data-collection integrated architecture that simultaneously performs high-precision tasks and collects multimodal training data (visual, tactile, trajectory). Supports 7x24 continuous operation, multi-joint bionic configuration, and strong spatial perception for warehouse sorting, retail guidance, and industrial assembly.
• Synglove Teleoperation glove designed for high-precision 3D hand pose capture (sub-millimeter accuracy) and tactile sensing. Used for human data acquisition feeding into Psi-R2 and Psi-W0 pretraining; reduces data acquisition cost to less than 1/10 of traditional robot approaches.

Quantifiable outcome

• 250x more data-efficient than Figure (0.4% of data volume needed)
• +8 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability9 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

16 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship ecosystem partner, ecosystem partner, strategic research partner, flagship research partner, research collaboration, academic ecosystem partner, technology ecosystem partner, data ecosystem partner, data infrastructure partner and technical dependency.

• NVIDIA (Inception Program)flagship ecosystem partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2025Member of NVIDIA Inception Program. Featured at NVIDIA Inception Startup Showcase · Volcano Engine Session at the 2025 Volcano Engine Spring FORCE Conference. One of six selected outstanding startups; received exhibition certificate from NVIDIA Inception Ecosystem China Director.
• Volcano Engine (火山引擎, ByteDance)ecosystem partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2025Co-hosted the NVIDIA Inception Startup Showcase Beijing Volcano Engine Session at the 2025 Volcano Engine Spring FORCE Conference at China National Convention Center (June 11-12, 2025), with over 6,000 industry attendees.
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)strategic research partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2025Joint collaboration with Peking University on Align-DS-V multimodal alignment framework for DeepSeek-R1. Backed by the Hong Kong Generative AI R&D Center (HKGAI) headed by HKUST Provost Prof. Qiang Yang.
• Peking University (北京大学) - PKU-PsiBot Joint Labflagship research partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2024北大-灵初智能 具身灵巧操作联合实验室 (Joint Lab for Embodied Dexterous Manipulation). Directed by Prof. Yaodong Yang from the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Peking University. Collaborates with Prof. Yitao Liang on long-horizon planning research; PKU PAIR-Lab team co-developed SafeVLA.
• Stanford Universityresearch collaborationStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-founder Yuanpei Chen was a visiting scholar at Stanford (2023) advised by Professors Karen Liu and Fei-Fei Li, contributing to Sequential Dexterity research (paper co-authored with C. Karen Liu's group).
• Tsinghua University (清华大学)academic ecosystem partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as academic ecosystem partner on PsiBot's website with logo featured alongside other top universities.
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学)academic ecosystem partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as academic ecosystem partner. Prof. Ying Wen from SJTU AI School contributes as RL Leader; his group developed the multimodal decision-making model DB1 that outperformed DeepMind's Gato model.
• Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (香港中文大学（深圳）)academic ecosystem partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as academic ecosystem partner on PsiBot's website.
• Baidu (百度)technology ecosystem partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed as technology ecosystem partner on PsiBot's website.
• Alibaba Cloud / Aliyun (阿里云)technology ecosystem partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed as technology ecosystem partner on PsiBot's website.
• Kingsoft Cloud (金山云)technology ecosystem partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed as technology ecosystem partner on PsiBot's website.
• Tencent (腾讯)technology ecosystem partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed as technology ecosystem partner on PsiBot's website.
• 觅蜂科技 (Mifeng Technology)data ecosystem partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerEmbodied intelligence data platform partner. Mifeng Technology completed hundreds of millions of yuan in seed and angel round led by HSG China. Partnership for embodied data collection infrastructure.
• 智域基石 (Zhiyu Jishi)data ecosystem partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerEmbodied data direction partner for expanding data collection capacity and capabilities.
• Beijing Shijingshan District (北京石景山区) Data Factorydata infrastructure partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration for data collection factory in Beijing Shijingshan District to scale human operation data collection supporting PsiBot's model training needs.
• Wan2.2-IT2V-5B-480P (Open Source Video Generation Backbone)technical dependencyTechnology or IntegrationOpen-source video generation model backbone used as the foundation for Psi-R2 and Psi-W0 model training.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Physical Intelligence (Pi): US-based embodied AI startup building foundation VLA models for general-purpose robot manipulation. Direct competitor on the Molmospace benchmark (Psi-R2 ranked #1 ahead of Pi) and pursues nearly identical VLA-based dexterous manipulation as PsiBot.
• Figure AI: US humanoid robotics company developing general-purpose humanoid robots with Helix VLA model. Direct competitor to PsiBot's hierarchical VLA approach; cited by PsiBot as the 250x data-efficiency benchmark (PsiBot uses 0.4% of Figure's data volume).
• AgiBot (智元机器人): Chinese embodied AI and humanoid robotics company developing dexterous manipulation and full-stack robotic platforms. One of the most direct Chinese competitors to PsiBot, also pursuing foundation VLA models and humanoid hardware.
• Galbot (银河通用): Chinese embodied AI startup focused on general-purpose dexterous manipulation and humanoid robots. Direct competitor in China's domestic embodied AI race, also developing VLA-based foundation models for general manipulation tasks.
• Robot Era (星动纪元): Chinese embodied AI startup founded by Tsinghua alumni, focused on humanoid robots with dexterous manipulation. Direct competitor in the Chinese embodied AI ecosystem pursuing similar enterprise commercialization in retail, logistics, and manufacturing.

Emerging players

• Unitree Robotics (宇树科技): Chinese quadruped and humanoid robot maker with strong in-house hardware capabilities. Comparable to PsiBot on the hardware/platform side, though with less emphasis on VLA foundation models; targets similar enterprise and consumer robotics markets.
• Fourier Intelligence (傅利叶智能): Chinese embodied AI and humanoid robotics startup developing GR-1 and GR-2 humanoid platforms. Direct competitor in the Chinese embodied AI market with overlapping enterprise/manufacturing deployment focus.
• Apptronik: US-based humanoid robotics company developing Apollo humanoid for logistics and manufacturing. Comparable to PsiBot on hardware platform and enterprise commercialization focus, with similar dexterous manipulation ambitions.
• 1X Technologies: Norwegian humanoid robotics startup backed by OpenAI, developing Neo humanoid for home and enterprise use. Comparable to PsiBot's phased GTM strategy (industrial → consumer), with similar VLA-driven manipulation and dexterous hand technology.

Broad incumbents

• UBTech Robotics (优必选): Hong Kong-listed Chinese humanoid and service robotics company with broad product portfolio including Walker humanoids. Larger and more established player in Chinese service robotics, with overlapping enterprise and consumer use cases vs PsiBot.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/PsibotRobotics
• GitHubgithub.com/Psi-Robot
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@PsibotRobotics
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/psibot

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors24 records

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M&A

Investments4 records

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