Facts

• Segment: Autonomy Software
• Country: China
• Founded: 2015
• Website: https://www.cloudminds.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

CloudMinds develops cloud-connected service robots and AI systems. Its XR-1 humanoid used cloud AI, 5G connectivity and dexterous manipulation to demonstrate human-facing service tasks, combining robot hardware with remote intelligence and connectivity infrastructure.

Market context

Introduced one of the earliest scalable models for robotics where intelligence is centralized and shared across fleets, enabling collective learning and lower onboard compute requirements. Ginger XR-1 humanoid service robot platform (XR-1) cloud robotics platform (HARIX).

• Capability: cloud-based robot intelligence multi-robot coordination multimodal perception (cloud-driven) natural language interaction
• Strategic position: cloud robotics infrastructure provider centralized AI "brain" for robots network-first robotics architecture

Products

• XR-1

Facts

• Website: https://www.cloudminds.com
• HQ: Beijing, China
• Founded: 2015
• Segment: Autonomy Software
• Known funding rounds: 2

Funding

• 2021-04-08 - Series B+ - $138M - CloudMinds completes more than RMB 1 billion Series B+ financing - source: syncedreview.com
• 2017-02-14 - Series A - CloudMinds creates CI-based robots and announces SoftBank Series A investment - source: prnewswire.com

Investors

• Shanghai Guosheng Group - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-04-08
• Shanghai Urban Construction Investment - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-04-08
• SoftBank - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2017-02-14

Cloud robotics and humanoid AI company

CloudMinds develops cloud-connected robots and AI systems for enterprise and family service scenarios.

• Target environment: Enterprise service environments, homes, research deployments, cloud-connected robot fleets and task settings.
• Deployment model: Cloud robotics platform and robot products built around centralized AI, connectivity and humanoid robot development.
• Customer context: Enterprise customers, family service users, robotics partners and organizations testing cloud-connected robots.
• Workflow context: Cloud robot control, remote intelligence, service interaction, enterprise assistance and dull, dirty, dangerous or demanding task support.
• Commercial maturity: Established cloud robotics company with public robot products and platform positioning, though current deployment scale is unevenly documented.
• Market position: Cloud robotics infrastructure company focused on centralized intelligence for service robots.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on network reliability, latency, cloud security, robot usefulness, customer trust and sustained deployment economics.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes cloud robotics, humanoid service robots, robot fleet intelligence and connected embodied AI systems.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2021-04-08 - Funding - CloudMinds completes more than RMB 1 billion Series B+ financing - CloudMinds announced completion of a Series B+ round worth more than RMB 1 billion.
• 2020-02-05 - Deployment - CloudMinds donates and ships 5G cloud robots to hospitals in Wuhan and Shanghai - CloudMinds announced emergency deployment of 5G cloud robots to hospitals in Wuhan and Shanghai during the coro…
• 2019-02-28 - Product Launch - CloudMinds launches the XR-1 cloud-based intelligent service robot - CloudMinds officially launched XR-1 as a cloud-based humanoid service robot at Mobile World Congress Barcelona.
• 2017-02-14 - Funding - CloudMinds creates CI-based robots and announces SoftBank Series A investment - CloudMinds announced that SoftBank had completed a Series A investment in the company.

Team

• Bill Huang - Founder, Chairman and CEO - Founder row explains CloudMinds' early position in cloud robotics, connected smart machines and robot-control infrastructure.
• William Xiao-Qing Huang (Bill Huang) - Founder & Chairman
• Yang Guanghua - Co-founder & Senior Vice President
• Zhao Pengyu - Chief Financial Officer

Relationships

• hospital customers - CloudMinds shipped 5G cloud robots into Wuhan and Shanghai hospital operations.
• investor - SoftBank is listed as an investor or backer of CloudMinds.
• investor - Shanghai Chengtou Group is listed as an investor or backer of CloudMinds.
• investor - Shanghai Guosheng Group is listed as an investor or backer of CloudMinds.

Customers and deployments

• Hospital Robot Shipment Status - 5G cloud robots shipped to Wuhan and Shanghai hospitals - 2020-02-05 - hospitals in Wuhan and Shanghai - hospital service robot operations - CloudMinds shipped 5G cloud robots to hospita…