Facts

• Segment: Humanoid
• Country: China
• Founded: 2021
• Website: https://www.dexforce.com

Profile sections

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

Summary

DexForce builds wheeled humanoid robots and physical-AI systems for industrial and commercial service tasks. The Shenzhen company raised a RMB1B Series B in June 2026 at a post-money valuation above RMB10B, with deployment activity across manufacturing and service environments.

Market context

DexForce is one of China’s high-valuation physical-AI companies, with a robot body, simulation engine, world-model work and reported commercial deployments under one stack. DexForce combines W1 Pro wheeled humanoid hardware with DexVerse, DexBrain and DexSense software and sensing layers for Sim2Real robot learning, manipulation and service automation.

Products

• W1 Pro

Facts

• Website: https://www.dexforce.com
• HQ: Shenzhen, China
• Founded: 2021
• Segment: Humanoid
• Known funding rounds: 3
• Latest funding date: 2026-07-01

Funding

• 2026-07-01 - Series B - $146M - DexForce completes RMB1B Series B at over RMB10B post-money valuation - source: autonews.gasgoo.com
• 2025-07-10 - Series A - DexForce announces A1 and A2 financing rounds worth several hundred million yuan - source: dexforce.com
• 2024-05-01 - Strategic investment - DexForce completes strategic funding round led by Lenovo Capital - source: caixinglobal.com

Investors

• Chengdu Science and Technology Venture Capital - Lead - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-05-01 - latest 2025-07-10
• Lenovo Capital - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-05-01 - latest 2025-07-10
• Nanshan Emerging Industry Fund - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-05-01 - latest 2025-07-10
• Sichuan Science and Technology Investment Group - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-05-01 - latest 2025-07-10
• Tianying Capital - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-05-01 - latest 2025-07-10
• Chengdu Sci-tech Innovation Investment - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-30
• Guiyang Digital Economy Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-30
• Hengjian Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-30
• ICBC Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-30
• Lens Technology - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-30
• Nanshan Strategic Emerging Industry Investment - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-30
• Qianhai Mother Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-30
• Shenzhen Capital Group - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-30
• Sichuan Academician Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-30
• Chengdu Science and Technology Venture Capital & Hongtai Fund (co-leads) - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-10
• Hongtai Fund - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-10
• Tanyuan Venture Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-10
• Yicun Songling - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-10
• Chengdu Science and Technology Venture Capital; Hongtai Capital Holdings - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-05-01
• Hongtai Capital Holdings - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-05-01
• Yicun Songling Bayes - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-05-01

Wheeled humanoid and industrial manipulation systems for sim-to-real automation

DexForce develops wheeled humanoid and manipulation systems for embodied intelligence and industrial automation. Its public W1 Pro positioning emphasizes stereo perception, dexterous hands, high-frequency joint control and flexible robot configuration for industrial, service and research applications.

• Target environment: Industrial automation cells, robotics research labs, service environments, manipulation testbeds and embodied AI development settings.
• Deployment model: Robot platform model built around wheeled humanoid hardware, dexterous hands, stereo vision, sim-to-real AI methods and automation cells.
• Customer context: Industrial automation customers, robotics researchers, service robotics users and companies evaluating wheeled humanoid manipulation systems.
• Workflow context: Wheeled humanoid mobility, dexterous manipulation, sim-to-real policy learning, stereo perception, force control and industrial task automation.
• Commercial maturity: DexForce is an early-stage wheeled humanoid and manipulation company with visible technical positioning. Scaling depends on customer deployments, production quality, manipulation robustness, and rep…
• Market position: Wheeled humanoid and manipulation company positioned around sim-to-real physical AI for automation.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on manipulation robustness, safety, production quality, integration support, customer validation, and repeatable performance in industrial or service workflows.
• Adjacent context: Humanoid robotics, mobile manipulation, embodied AI, robot learning, industrial automation and dexterous hands.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-07-01 - Funding - DexForce completes RMB1B Series B at over RMB10B post-money valuation - The round was described as RMB1B Series B financing with post-money valuation above RMB10B.
• 2026-06-02 - Capability - DexForce world model leads WorldArena Track 2 evaluation - DexForce’s embodied world-model work led a WorldArena Track 2 evaluation.
• 2026-05-02 - Deployment - DexForce-powered robot service stations open across multiple Chinese venues - Robot commercial-service stations opened across multiple Chinese cities during the May Day holiday period.
• 2026-02-28 - Partnership - DexForce signs strategic partnership with WeCook and plans W1 Pro deployments into WeCook and Hung Fook Tong sites - DexForce announced a strategic partnership with WeCook under which the DexF…
• 2026-01-20 - Capability - DexForce open-sources EmbodiChain for embodied-model training with fully generated data - DexForce announced the open-sourcing of EmbodiChain, its embodied-model training framework built around…
• 2025-07-10 - Funding - DexForce announces A1 and A2 financing rounds worth several hundred million yuan - DexForce announced that it had closed A1 and A2 rounds totaling several hundred million yuan.
• 2024-05-01 - Funding - DexForce completes strategic funding round led by Lenovo Capital - Caixin's July 2025 coverage states that DexForce completed a strategic fundraising round in May 2024 led by Lenovo Capital.
• 2024-01-01 - Product Launch - DexForce launches the DexForce W1 humanoid robot - Caixin's July 2025 funding coverage states that DexForce launched the DexForce W1 in January 2024 as a wheeled humanoid robot.

Team

• Jia Kui - Founder - His spatial-intelligence and Sim2Real research background underpins DexForce’s physical-AI and humanoid robot stack.

Relationships

• deployment_partner - DexForce has a public partnership relationship with WeCook.
• deployment_partner - DexForce has a public partnership relationship with Hung Fook Tong.
• partner - DexForce has a public partnership relationship with Hong Kong Productivity Council.
• investor - Lenovo Capital is listed as an investor or backer of DexForce.
• investor - Chengdu Science and Technology Venture Capital is listed as an investor or backer of DexForce.
• investor - Hongtai Fund is listed as an investor or backer of DexForce.
• investor - Tianying Capital is listed as an investor or backer of DexForce.
• investor - Sichuan Science and Technology Investment Group is listed as an investor or backer of DexForce.
• investor - Nanshan Emerging Industry Fund is listed as an investor or backer of DexForce.
• investor - Yicun Songling is listed as an investor or backer of DexForce.
• investor - Tanyuan Venture Capital is listed as an investor or backer of DexForce.
• investor - Shenzhen Capital Group participated in DexForce's RMB1B Series B financing.
• investor - Qianhai Mother Fund participated in DexForce's RMB1B Series B financing.
• investor - Hengjian Capital participated in DexForce's RMB1B Series B financing.
• investor - ICBC Capital participated in DexForce's RMB1B Series B financing.
• investor - Lens Technology participated in DexForce's RMB1B Series B financing.
• investor - Guiyang Digital Economy Fund participated in DexForce's RMB1B Series B financing.
• investor - Nanshan Strategic Emerging Industry Investment participated in DexForce's RMB1B Series B financing.
• investor - Chengdu Sci-tech Innovation Investment participated in DexForce's RMB1B Series B financing.
• investor - Sichuan Academician Fund participated in DexForce's RMB1B Series B financing.

Context tags

• Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Company builds DexForce W1 Pro humanoid robot platform.
• Wheeled humanoid builder - Peer Group - Official W1 Pro materials describe a wheeled humanoid robot with a humanoid upper body and mobile chassis.
• Industrial humanoid robot builder - Peer Group - Official W1 Pro scenarios include industrial manufacturing, data collection, commercial services and service automation.
• Embodied AI world models - Peer Group - DexForce describes DexVerse, DexWorldModel and physical-AI world-model work as part of its core stack.
• Mobile manipulation robotics - Peer Group - W1 Pro is a wheeled humanoid platform with perception and manipulation, but use mobile_manipulation_robotics as supporting rather than sole identity.
• Bimanual mobile manipulation - Workflow - W1 Pro has dual 7-DOF arms, optional dexterous hands and a mobile chassis for manipulation tasks.
• Embodied world model training - Workflow - DexVerse and EmbodiChain materials describe synthetic data, simulation and model-training workflows for embodied tasks.
• Industrial task execution - Workflow - DexForce product positioning targets industrial humanoid and automation scenarios.
• Vision-language-action control - Capability - DexForce positions its system around embodied intelligence, vision-first perception and Sim2Real/VLA-style robot learning.
• Factories - Customer Environment - DexForce names intelligent manufacturing and industrial production environments for W1 Pro and its physical-AI stack.
• Dexterous manipulation - Capability - W1 Pro supports dexterous hands, force control and dual-arm manipulation workflows.
• Pilot deployments - Commercial Stage - Public materials report commercial and service deployments, but precise customer-scale robot counts should remain conservative.