What Synkrotron does

Synkrotron (清科灵境) is a China-based embodied AI company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Hefei's Zhong'an Chuanggu Science Park, building a closed-loop system for physical-world intelligence. The company's central technology is the World Action Model (WAM), a proprietary unified model that encodes task intent, environment state, and human instruction to jointly generate robot actions and predict next-state physical evolution in a single end-to-end architecture. WAM sits on top of Dora Runtime, an open-source, edge-deployable dataflow foundation providing zero-copy tensor pipelines at millisecond latency for real-time perception, inference, and control.

Synkrotron productizes WAM through the Lingo product suite: Lingo Brain (the embodied brain engine embedded in robots and edge devices, providing task understanding, action planning, execution control, and continuous learning), Lingo Trace (a hardware-and-software capture suite using ego-centric head-mounted devices and 6DoF teleoperation grippers for multimodal data collection), Lingo Data (a governance platform for multimodal embodied data covering ingestion, labeling, versioning, and training-set construction), and Lingo World (a simulation and synthetic data platform unifying 3D/4D reconstruction, physics simulation, synthetic-data generation, and Sim2Real evaluation). The four products, together with the Real-Synthetic Flywheel in which real failures feed simulation and model iteration, form the company's core platform.

Synkotron's flagship offering, the AI Lab Solution, packages the full Lingo stack for scientific experiment robots and autonomous labs, with additional go-to-market extension into autonomous driving simulation, synthetic-data production, and industrial digital-twin applications. Revenue is generated through a mix of subscription/recurring fees for the AI Lab Solution, one-time private-deployment licensing for Lingo World, Lingo Data, and Lingo Brain, and hardware sales for the Lingo Trace capture kit, all delivered through an enterprise field sales motion targeting research institutions, corporate R&D centers, and lab automation builders. The firm employs 51–100 people and is privately held, with a 2025 Series 2 round led by Hefei High-tech VC.

Name

Synkrotron

Legal name

Synkrotron 清科灵境

Website

https://synkrotron.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Synkrotron builds an embodied AI platform anchored on its proprietary World Action Model (WAM) and the open-source Dora Runtime, delivered through the Lingo suite (Brain, Trace, Data, World) as a closed-loop system for scientific labs, autonomous driving simulation, and industrial robotics.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Embodied AI / Robotics Software Platform

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (334519)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) & Hyperautomation Platforms (HDAEAKAF), Enterprise Foundation Model Integration & APIs (Connectors, Governance, Deployment) (HDAAACAO), Generative AI & LLM Solutions Services (RAG, Agents, Copilots) (BPAEAHAG)

Keywords

• Embodied intelligence platform
• Robot simulation software
• Synthetic data generation
• Autonomous driving simulation
• Embodied AI infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

Dongcheng

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. AI Lab Solution: Integrated solution for scientific robots and autonomous labs combining Lingo product suite (Brain, Trace, Data, World) with Dora foundation. Delivered through consulting, system integration, deployment and continuous iteration services. Revenue derived from solution consulting fees, system integration projects, platform licensing (private deployment), and ongoing support contracts
2. Platform Licensing & Private Deployment: Lingo World simulation platform, Lingo Data data platform, and Lingo Brain model packages delivered as private platforms with governance modules, processing pipelines, and API integrations. Supports private deployment models for enterprise and research customers
3. Hardware + Software Suite (Lingo Trace): Hardware capture kit (ego-centric devices, 6DoF grippers, sensors) bundled with edge software and on-site deployment services. Includes installation, operator training, and ongoing support

Go-to-market motion1 record

Core offering

Synkrotron builds a closed-loop embodied intelligence system anchored by the World Action Model (WAM). Its Lingo product suite — Lingo Brain (embodied brain for robots), Lingo Trace (hardware + software data capture suite), Lingo Data (multimodal data governance platform), and Lingo World (simulation and synthetic data platform) — together with the open-source Dora runtime, enables robots to understand tasks, generate actions, and continuously improve through real-world feedback and simulation. The AI Lab Solution packages the full stack for scientific experiment robots and autonomous labs.

Product overview

Synkrotron is an embodied intelligence company offering a closed-loop system for physical-world intelligence centered on the World Action Model (WAM). The product portfolio consists of four Lingo products—Lingo Brain (embodied brain for robots), Lingo Trace (hardware/software data capture suite), Lingo Data (data governance platform), and Lingo World (simulation and synthetic data platform)—all built on the Dora open-source low-latency dataflow foundation. The four Lingo products form an integrated flywheel: Trace captures real-world trajectories and expert demonstrations, Data transforms raw multimodal sensor streams into trainable model assets, World generates synthetic scenarios and performs Sim2Real validation, and Brain embeds the WAM into robots for task execution and continuous learning. The flagship AI Lab Solution packages this full stack for scientific experiment automation and autonomous labs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Lingo Brain: Embodied brain product for task understanding, action planning, execution control and continuous learning for robots.
• Lingo Trace
• Lingo Data
• Lingo World
• World Action Model (WAM)
• Dora Runtime
• AI Lab Solution

Products and services

• Lingo Brain The embodied brain product for robots and edge systems. It productizes the World Action Model (WAM) to enable task understanding, action planning, execution control, and continuous learning on real robots. It fuses language instructions, scene observation, task progress, and memory to generate executable, constrained, long-horizon actions. It is sold to research institutions, R&D centers, and lab automation builders developing embodied AI applications.
• Lingo Trace A hardware and edge software suite for standardized capture of real-world operation data, including ego-centric head-mounted devices, 6DoF teleoperation grippers, and edge preprocessing software. Captures multimodal sensor data (RGB, depth, IMU, audio, hand pose, joint angles, and trajectories) and is sold to research labs, R&D centers, and lab automation teams building embodied training datasets.
• Lingo Data An embodied data infrastructure platform that manages multimodal embodied data across ingestion, time alignment, auto-labeling, quality scoring, dataset versioning, and training interface integration. It supports anomaly and quality detection during data refinery processing and is sold to enterprise research and R&D customers building trainable model assets from operational episodes.
• Lingo World A simulation and synthetic data platform for embodied intelligence. Unifies 3D/4D reconstruction, physics simulation, synthetic data generation, and Sim2Real evaluation. Generates long-tail scenarios, corner cases, rare events, and multi-agent interactions, and supports policy testing, benchmarks, domain randomization, and pre-deployment validation. Sold to autonomous driving, industrial, and AI4S customers needing high-fidelity simulation and synthetic data.
• AI Lab Solution Flagship integrated solution for scientific robots and autonomous labs that packages the full Lingo product suite (Brain, Trace, Data, World) with the Dora foundation. Enables lab robots to understand scientific tasks, execute complex operations (sample transfer, instrument operation, reagent management, state confirmation, quality assurance), and evolve through experiment feedback. Delivered with consulting, system integration, deployment, and continuous iteration services to universities, research institutes, and corporate R&D centers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Continuous improvement through failure-to-data-to-simulation-to-deployment cycle

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability11 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Physical Intelligence: US-based startup building general-purpose foundation models for robots. Directly comparable to Synkroton's WAM approach and competes for the same embodied AI foundation-model customer base, though focused on US/European markets.
• Skild AI: Develops robotics foundation models (Skild Brain) targeting cross-embodiment generalization. Closely aligned with Synkroton's WAM in technical ambition and target applications across industrial and service robotics.
• Covariant: Builds AI foundation models for warehouse and industrial robots, with a Brain + data flywheel approach analogous to Synkroton's Lingo Brain + Real-Synthetic Flywheel. Recently acquired by Amazon, validating the embodied-AI platform thesis.
• Galbot (Galaxy Bot / 银河通用): Chinese embodied AI startup building foundation models and dexterous manipulation for humanoid robots. Direct head-to-head competitor in the China market with overlapping AI Lab and industrial robotics use cases.
• AgiBot: Chinese embodied AI company building humanoid robots and the corresponding foundation model stack. Competes with Synkrotron for Chinese AI Lab, industrial, and service-robotics customers with a more hardware-led approach.
• Applied Intuition: Provides simulation and synthetic data tooling primarily for autonomous driving and autonomous systems. Directly overlaps with Synkroton's Lingo World autonomous driving simulation and synthetic data offering, though Applied Intuition is more enterprise-software oriented.
• Galaxea AI: Chinese embodied AI startup focused on cross-embodiment foundation models and dexterous manipulation. Closely comparable to Synkrotron in technical stack, target verticals, and Chinese market positioning.

Broad incumbents

• NVIDIA (Isaac Sim / Isaac Lab): Dominant incumbent in robotics simulation and synthetic data generation through Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab. Synkroton's Lingo World competes for the same simulation workload but must coexist as an NVIDIA-based runtime rather than displace it.

Regional players

• Mech-Mind: Established Chinese industrial 3D vision and robotics AI vendor serving manufacturing customers. Comparable to Synkrotron on the industrial / digital twin side, though Mech-Mind is more vision-centric than foundation-model-centric.

Emerging players

• Astribot: Chinese embodied AI company developing humanoid manipulation robots with foundation-model-style control. Comparable to Synkrotron on the embodied brain and dexterous manipulation thesis, though more hardware-focused and earlier stage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/synkrotron

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors5 records

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M&A

Investments

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