What PsiBot does

PsiBot (灵初智能 / Lingchu Intelligence) is a Chinese embodied AI company founded in September 2024 and headquartered at Shanghai's Xuhui AI Town. The company develops Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation models — Psi R0, R0.5, R1, R2, and the action-conditioned world model Psi-W0 — combined with reinforcement learning, using a hierarchical fast/slow brain (S1/S2) architecture to enable long-horizon task execution and dexterous manipulation. Its full-stack offering spans software (VLA models, Psi Sim simulation platform, Psi Data collection pipeline) and proprietary hardware (Psi V1 wheeled robot, Psi H1 dexterous hand with 3D tactile sensing, Psi E1 exoskeleton, and the integrated ψ-SynRobot system that generates training data while operating).

PsiBot targets enterprise B2B customers in three primary verticals — logistics & e-commerce, retail & supermarket, and manufacturing & industrial — with named use cases including warehouse inspection, e-commerce packaging, shelf restocking, and assembly. Revenue is generated through two streams: (1) licensing its VLA models, RL algorithms, and simulation/data platforms as software solutions, and (2) sale of its robotic hardware, with mass production of ψ-SynRobot initiated in April 2026. Distribution is exclusively direct enterprise sales; there are no consumer or self-serve channels. Pricing is not publicly disclosed.

The go-to-market combines direct enterprise field sales anchored on leading-client pilots with a community-led open-source strategy — models (DexGraspVLA, Psi R0/R0.5/R1), datasets (Psi-MobiDex, 1,000 hours of human hand manipulation data), and research papers are publicly released on GitHub, HuggingFace, and arXiv. PsiBot has established the PKU-PsiBot Joint Lab for Embodied Dexterous Manipulation and collaborates with Tsinghua, Shanghai Jiao Tong, CUHK Shenzhen, HKUST, and Stanford. The company has raised approximately $280 million (2 billion RMB) across angel and Pre-A rounds from GL Ventures, Lanchi Ventures, Guokai Finance, Guozhong Capital, Xuhui Capital, a CCTV-affiliated industry fund, SDIC Guiding Fund, and Jingxi Ruiling.

Name

PsiBot

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

51–100 employees

Short description

PsiBot (灵初智能) is a Chinese embodied AI company that develops proprietary Vision-Language-Action foundation models and robotic hardware (dexterous hands, wheeled robots, integrated systems) for dexterous manipulation. It sells integrated hardware-software solutions to enterprise B2B customers in logistics, retail, and manufacturing.

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)

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), Humanoid & General-Purpose Robots (HDAAAIAJ), Human-Robot Interaction & Teleoperation Systems (HDAAAIAM), Agents & Autonomous Workflows (Tool Use, Planning, Multi-Agent) (HDAAACAF)

Keywords

• Embodied AI robotics
• Vision-language-action models
• Dexterous manipulation
• Warehouse automation
• Industrial robot systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Haidian

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Embodied AI Software & Algorithms Licensing: PsiBot commercializes its VLA models (Psi R0, R0.5, R1, R2), RL algorithms, and simulation/data platforms as software solutions. Revenue is generated through licensing proprietary AI models and algorithms to enterprise customers for deployment in logistics, retail, and manufacturing.
2. Robotic Hardware Sales: Sale of proprietary robot systems including Psi V1 (wheeled mobile robot with humanoid upper body, 32 DOF), Psi H1 dexterous hand, Psi E1 exoskeleton system, and Psi-SynRobot full robot. The company has started mass production of Psi-SynRobot, targeting commercial deployment in logistics, retail, and industrial scenarios.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

PsiBot develops and sells embodied AI robotic systems that combine proprietary Vision-Language-Action (VLA) large models with dexterity-focused hardware. Its product portfolio spans end-to-end RL-driven VLA models (Psi R0, R0.5, R1, R2), simulation and data collection platforms (Psi Sim, Psi Data), and physical hardware including wheeled mobile robots (Psi V1), dexterous hands (Psi H1), exoskeletons (Psi E1), teleoperation gloves (Synglove), and complete self-developed robot systems (ψ-SynRobot). Offerings are sold to enterprise customers in logistics, retail, and manufacturing for general-purpose dexterous manipulation tasks.

Product overview

PsiBot (灵初智能) offers a comprehensive embodied AI platform combining software algorithms and hardware products for general-purpose dexterous manipulation. The portfolio includes three generations of VLA models (Psi R0, R0.5, R1) that provide end-to-end reinforcement learning-based robot control from vision-language inputs to action outputs. Supporting software includes Psi Sim (simulation platform for RL training) and Psi Data (data collection system). Hardware products span wheeled mobile robots (Psi V1), dexterous hands (Psi H1), exoskeletons (Psi E1), and the complete self-developed ψ-SynRobot system. The company positions itself as a 'small full-stack' provider covering embodied robotics hardware and the data, training, and deployment systems needed for practical robot applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Psi R0 The industry's first end-to-end reinforcement learning embodied model enabling complex dual-handed manipulation with cross-object and cross-scenario generalization for enterprise embodied AI deployment.
• Psi R0.5 Enhanced hierarchical end-to-end VLA model achieving 250x data efficiency improvement over comparable models, generalizing to thousands of objects with only ~2 hours of training data.
• Psi R1 First reinforcement learning-driven Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model supporting 30+ minute Chain of Action Thought (CoAT) for long-horizon open-world tasks with millimeter-level dexterous manipulation.
• Psi Sim High-fidelity simulation platform enabling parallel strategy learning, exploration evaluation, and policy verification with Sim2Real transfer capabilities for embodied AI development.
• Psi Data Data collection and annotation platform using self-developed exoskeleton equipment for high-quality real-world dexterous manipulation data at >500 items/day per person, with visual, language, joint angle, and tactile modalities.
• Psi V1 Wheeled robot with 32 degrees of freedom featuring humanoid upper body and five-finger tactile dexterous hand for enterprise deployment in service, logistics, and manufacturing scenarios.
• Psi H1 Dexterous hand with deep coupling operation algorithms, the industry's only solution with 3D tactile perception and force feedback for precise object manipulation in enterprise deployments.
• Psi E1 Homomorphic anthropomorphic exoskeleton with 1:1 mapping of human hand movements to robotic hands, enabling high-precision teleoperation with force feedback for data collection and remote robot control.
• Synglove Teleoperation glove with 1:1 joint mapping design allowing natural control of robotic hand joints through wearable exoskeleton for data collection and robot teleoperation.
• ψ-SynRobot Self-developed complete robot system featuring integrated operation and data collection architecture for logistics, retail, and industrial scenarios with 7×24 hour continuous operation and simultaneous task execution and training data generation ('work while learning').

Quantifiable outcome

• 250x data efficiency improvement vs Figure — 2 hours of data vs Figure's data volume for generalized grasping
• +7 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability10 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and moderate.

• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 February 2025Collaboration between Prof. Yaodong Yang's PKU team and HKUST to release Align-DS-V, the multimodal version of DeepSeek-R1 built on the Align-Anything framework. The HKUST side was backed by the Hong Kong Generative AI R&D Center (HKGAI) led by Prof. Qiang Yang. This partnership extends DeepSeek's reasoning capabilities into multimodal vision-language-action for embodied AI applications.
• NVIDIA (NVIDIA Inception Program)moderateTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2025PsiBot is a member of the NVIDIA Inception Program, a startup acceleration platform providing access to NVIDIA's technology, ecosystem, and resources. PsiBot participated in the 2025 NVIDIA Inception Startup Showcase and received a regional exhibition certificate. NVIDIA technologies are used in PsiBot's training and simulation infrastructure.
• Peking University — PKU-PsiBot Joint Lab for Embodied Dexterous ManipulationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2024PsiBot has established a formal joint laboratory with Peking University's Institute for Artificial Intelligence, led by Prof. Yaodong Yang. The lab focuses on embodied dexterous manipulation research, VLA model development, and alignment research. This is the company's most prominent academic R&D partnership, combining PsiBot's industry capabilities with PKU's academic depth in reinforcement learning and AI safety.
• Tsinghua UniversitymoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a partner on PsiBot's official website alongside Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and CUHK Shenzhen. Nature of partnership is academic/research collaboration in embodied AI and robotics.
• Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversitymoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a partner on PsiBot's official website. Collaboration involves Prof. Ying Wen's RL group which developed the DB1 multimodal decision-making model that outperformed DeepMind's Gato. Prof. Wen serves as PsiBot's RL Leader.
• Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK Shenzhen)moderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a partner on PsiBot's official website alongside other top Chinese universities. Nature of partnership is academic/research collaboration in embodied AI.
• Stanford UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-founder Yuanpei Chen was a visiting scholar at Stanford University under Professors Karen Liu and Fei-Fei Li. Collaborative research produced 'Sequential Dexterity' — the world's first RL-based long-horizon dexterous manipulation task using chained dual-arm dual-hand multi-skill operations. Psi R1 architecture development benefited from this collaboration.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Apptronik: US-based humanoid robotics company developing the Apollo general-purpose humanoid robot for logistics, manufacturing, and consumer applications. Comparable as a direct competitor in dexterous humanoid deployment targeting similar B2B use cases in logistics and retail.
• Galbot (银河通用): Chinese embodied AI startup developing general-purpose dexterous robotic platforms with VLA foundation model approaches. Directly comparable as a Chinese VLA-focused competitor pursuing similar commercialization paths in logistics and retail.
• Agibot (智元机器人): Chinese embodied AI and humanoid robotics startup developing general-purpose humanoid robots for industrial and commercial use. Directly comparable as a Chinese competitor pursuing full-stack embodied AI with mass production ambitions, often cited alongside PsiBot in Chinese embodied intelligence rankings.
• Fourier Intelligence (傅利叶): Chinese humanoid robotics company with the GR-1 humanoid robot and rehabilitation robotics background, transitioning to general-purpose embodied AI. Comparable as a Chinese full-stack humanoid competitor with both hardware manufacturing capability and AI software development.
• Unitree Robotics (宇树科技): Chinese robotics company developing quadruped and humanoid robots with mass production capabilities. Directly comparable as a Chinese competitor with demonstrated hardware scale and aggressive pricing; Unitree's H1 humanoid competes in similar deployment scenarios to PsiBot's V1/SynRobot.
• 1X Technologies: Norway/US-based humanoid robotics startup (backed by OpenAI) developing the Neo bipedal robot for home and commercial use. Directly comparable as a humanoid/embodied AI competitor pursuing VLA-style foundation models for general-purpose manipulation.
• Figure AI: US-based humanoid robotics startup developing general-purpose humanoid robots (Figure 01, 02) for commercial deployment. Directly comparable to PsiBot's full-stack humanoid/dexterous manipulation approach; PsiBot explicitly cites 250x data efficiency improvement vs Figure's data volume.
• Physical Intelligence (PI): US-based AI robotics startup developing foundation models for robot control, including VLA models for dexterous manipulation. Directly comparable to PsiBot as both target general-purpose robotic dexterity through large-model approaches; PI is referenced in PsiBot's Molmospace benchmark competition.
• Sanctuary AI: Canadian humanoid robotics startup developing general-purpose humanoid robots with foundation models for dexterous manipulation. Comparable as a peer pursuing VLA-style foundation models for long-horizon dexterous tasks in commercial environments.
• RobotEra (星动纪元): Chinese humanoid and embodied AI startup developing general-purpose humanoid robots with dexterous manipulation capabilities. Comparable as a Chinese direct competitor pursuing similar embodied intelligence foundation model approaches for commercial deployment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/PsibotRobotics
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@PsibotRobotics
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/psibot

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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