Facts

• Segment: Industrial
• Country: China
• Founded: 2017
• Website: https://www.deeprobotics.cn

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Context tags
• Articles
• Sources

Summary

Deep Robotics builds quadruped and wheel-legged robots for inspection, research, education and field operations. Its product line includes Lite, X, DR and Lynx platforms used across power, industrial, emergency-response and robotics-development environments.

Market context

One of the few companies bridging real-world deployed robotics (quadrupeds) with emerging industrial humanoids, bringing field-proven mobility and durability into the humanoid category. DR02 Proprietary quadruped robotics platforms (Jueying series) Proprietary humanoid robotics platform (DR series).

• Capability: Industrial inspection and patrol robotics Operation in extreme environments (rain, dust, temperature variance) Legged locomotion across complex terrain Modular hardware systems for maintenance and deployment
• Strategic position: One of the few companies with real-world deployed legged robots transitioning into humanoids Positioned at the intersection of industrial robotics and next-generation humanoid systems Strong focus on…

Products

• DR02
• Lite3
• LYNX M20
• Lynx M20S
• Lynx S10 - Lynx
• X20 - X Series
• X30

Facts

• Website: https://www.deeprobotics.cn
• HQ: Hangzhou, China
• Founded: 2017
• Segment: Industrial
• Funding total: $70M
• Known funding rounds: 1
• Latest funding date: 2025-12-10

Funding

• 2025-12-10 - Funding round - $70M - Deep Robotics raises $70M to accelerate robot development and manufacturing - source: scmp.com

Investors

• China Asset Management - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-12-10
• China Telecom - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-12-10
• China Unicom - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-12-10
• CMB International - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-12-10

Quadruped robot company

Deep Robotics develops quadruped robots for industrial inspection, field operations, research, education and embodied AI applications.

• Target environment: Industrial sites, power facilities, emergency-response areas, research labs, education programs and outdoor field settings.
• Deployment model: Quadruped robot hardware sales through product families, development tools and industry-specific solutions.
• Customer context: Industrial operators, researchers, educators, emergency-response users and organizations testing legged robot deployments.
• Workflow context: Inspection, patrol, mapping, emergency response, education, research testing and field mobility.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial quadruped robot company with multiple robot product lines for industrial and research use.
• Market position: Legged robotics company focused on quadruped field robots and embodied AI expansion.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on reliability, terrain handling, autonomy software, payload integration, safety, support and customer use-case fit.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes quadrupeds, legged inspection robots, field robotics, industrial patrol and embodied AI platforms.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-05-22 - Product Launch - Deep Robotics launches Lynx S10 compact wheeled-legged robot - The launch positions Lynx S10 as a small industrial wheeled-legged robot for confined and lightweight operations.
• 2026-05-18 - Product Launch - DEEP Robotics launches Lynx M20S wheeled-legged robot - DEEP Robotics launched Lynx M20S as an upgraded wheel-legged robot in the Lynx M20 industrial platform line.
• 2026-05-01 - Market Signal - Deep Robotics completes IPO tutoring for potential China listing - Chinese securities media reported that Hangzhou Deep Robotics Technology and its tutoring broker, CSC Financial, submitted…
• 2026-03-05 - Demonstration - DEEP Robotics and CHDER release full-scenario intelligent inspection robot system for thermal power plants - DEEP Robotics and Huadian Electric Power Research Institute (CHDER) jointly relea…
• 2026-02-27 - Deployment - Deep Robotics' Lynx M20 Robots Transport Harvested Crops - • Deep Robotics deployed Lynx M20 robots to transport freshly harvested greens from mountainous farmland.
• 2026-01-07 - Award - Lynx M20 Pro wins CES 2026 Innovation Award - • DEEP Robotics' Lynx M20 Pro, a medium-sized wheeled-legged quadruped robot, received the CES 2026 Innovation Award in the Robotics category.
• 2025-12-10 - Funding - Deep Robotics raises $70M to accelerate robot development and manufacturing - Deep Robotics raised $70M to accelerate robot development and manufacturing.
• 2025-11-24 - Deployment - DEEP Robotics robot dog deployed at Yiwu International Trade City - • DEEP Robotics deployed its X30 robot dog at Zhejiang Yiwu International Trade City.
• 2025-11-04 - Deployment - Deep Robotics' quadruped robot deployed at Shanghai water treatment plant - • Deep Robotics deployed its quadruped robot at a water treatment plant in Shanghai.
• 2025-10-09 - Product Launch - DEEP Robotics Unveils DR02, the World's First All-Weather Humanoid Robot - DR02 features an IP66 protection rating, enabling operation in temperatures from -20°C to 55°C.
• 2023-10-17 - Product Launch - DEEP Robotics launches X30 industrial quadruped robot - DEEP Robotics announced the X30 quadruped robot as a flagship product for inspection, factories, pipeline corridors, emergency rescue…
• 2023-05-31 - Product Launch - DEEP Robotics debuts Lite3 quadruped robot at ICRA 2023 - DEEP Robotics debuted Lite3 at ICRA 2023 as its latest intelligent robot dog.
• 2022-07-26 - Capability - DEEP Robotics releases X20 hazard detection and rescue solution - DEEP Robotics released a Jueying X20 hazard-detection and rescue robot-dog solution.
• 2021-08-12 - Product Launch - DEEP Robotics launches Jueying X20 industrial waterproof quadruped - DEEP Robotics launched Jueying X20 as an industrial waterproof quadruped robot.

Team

• Zhu Qiuguo - Founder - Founder associated with Deep Robotics' quadruped robot platforms and embodied AI robotics direction.
• Li Chao - Co-founder & CTO

Context tags

• Industrial facilities - Customer Environment - DEEP Robotics materials include power and industrial inspection environments.
• Industrial asset inspection - Workflow - DEEP Robotics public materials describe quadruped power and industrial inspection workflows.
• Legged inspection robotics - Peer Group - Core peer group: quadruped robots for inspection and patrol
• Autonomous navigation - Capability - Autonomous navigation in industrial and confined environments
• Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Builds complete quadruped robot systems
• Quadruped robotics builder - Peer Group - Builds quadruped robot platforms used in inspection, patrol and field robotics contexts.
• Facility patrol - Workflow - DEEP Robotics presents quadruped robots for security and patrol-style inspection contexts.
• Legged locomotion - Capability - X30 and Lite3 are quadruped platforms
• Quadruped field robotics - Peer Group - DEEP Robotics quadrupeds are positioned for inspection, security and emergency-response contexts.
• Energy and utilities - Customer Environment - Public inspection examples include power and urban energy-network inspection.
• Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Commercially deployed across energy and industrial customers
• Industrial inspection - Workflow - Deep Robotics X30 used for industrial inspection and patrol
• Thermal sensing - Capability - Thermal camera payload for industrial inspection
• Factories - Customer Environment - Deployed in industrial facilities, plants and substations

Articles

• 2025-12-09 - Deep Robotics raises $70M Series C as it extends from quadrupeds into humanoids - The Hangzhou company, founded by two Zhejiang University researchers in 2017, has quadruped deployments across 44 countries…