Facts

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

Profile sections

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

Summary

DroidUp develops humanoid robots from Shanghai, with work spanning biped mobility, biomimetic appearance and human-facing interaction. Its Walker III and Moya robots target service, healthcare, education and commercial environments where robots need expressive behavior and movement around people.

Market context

DroidUp matters for its focus on efficient bionic-tendon locomotion and commercial readiness, with public signals around production scaling and real-world humanoid demonstrations. Walker III Proprietary humanoid robot platforms: Walker II (modular tendon-driven), Walker III (lightweight 38kg design) Academic collaboration with University of Shanghai for Science and Technology Manufacturing partnership with Zhengzhou production facility for mass production.

• Capability: Bionic tendon-driven actuator systems enabling energy-efficient bipedal locomotion (50% reduction vs peers) Modular humanoid platform architectures supporting flexible deployment and maintenance Embodied int…

Products

• Moya
• Walker III

Facts

• Website: https://www.droidup.com
• HQ: Shanghai, China
• Founded: 2021
• Segment: Humanoid
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2024-09-15 - Pre-A+ - $14M - DroidUp Robotics Raises $14M for Humanoid Robot Development - source: autonews.gasgoo.com

Investors

• Henan Ketou Industrial Development Investment Fund - Participant - Strategic Industrial - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2024-09-15
• Member of Xiamen Solex Technology Co., Ltd. - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-09-15
• Qingdao Zhenghe Industrial Co., Ltd. - Participant - Strategic Industrial - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2024-09-15
• Shanghai Pudong Leading Area Investment Center - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-09-15
• Shanghai Pudong Leading Area Investment Center; Shanghai Zhangjiang Sci-Tech Venture Capital Investment Co., Ltd. - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-09-15
• Shanghai Zhangjiang Sci-Tech Venture Capital Investment Co., Ltd. - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-09-15

Biomimetic humanoid robots for interaction and service settings

DroidUp develops biomimetic humanoid robots focused on humanlike movement, interaction, general humanoid R&D, production, and commercial service applications.

• Target environment: Human-facing service environments, education settings, healthcare-adjacent interaction, commercial demonstrations and humanoid robotics showcases.
• Deployment model: Humanoid platform model built around robot hardware, bionic movement technology, public demonstrations and planned commercial release.
• Customer context: Commercial service users, education organizations, healthcare-adjacent users, robotics partners and early adopters of humanoid interaction robots.
• Workflow context: Humanoid interaction, biomimetic movement, public demonstrations, service robotics, humanlike walking and commercial humanoid product development.
• Commercial maturity: DroidUp is an early-stage humanoid developer with visible public demonstrations and biomimetic interaction positioning. Its next proof points are customer deployments, repeatable service tasks, and…
• Market position: Shanghai humanoid robotics company positioned around biomimetic interaction and service applications.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on useful task depth, production readiness, safety, customer validation, maintenance, price, and differentiation from more established humanoid developers.
• Adjacent context: Humanoid robotics, service robots, embodied AI, bipedal locomotion, human-robot interaction and Chinese robotics.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2025-04-19 - Award - DroidUp's Walker 2 Secures 3rd Place in Humanoid Robot Half Marathon - • DroidUp's Walker 2 robot achieved third place in the world's first humanoid robot half marathon held in Beijing on April 19,…
• 2024-09-15 - Funding - DroidUp Robotics Raises $14M for Humanoid Robot Development - • DroidUp Robotics secured a Series A funding round of 100 million yuan (approximately $14 million) in September 2024.

Team

• Li Qingdu - Founder and CEO - Li leads DroidUp's high-biomimicry humanoid robotics work.

Context tags

• Public service humanoid interaction - Workflow - DroidUp robots engage in public-facing service and customer interaction.
• Humanoid service robot builder - Peer Group - DroidUp builds humanoid robots for public service interaction.
• Humanoid social expression - Capability - DroidUp robots have expressive social interaction capability.
• Humanoid robot OEM - Stack Layer - DroidUp builds complete humanoid robot systems.
• Bipedal locomotion - Capability - DroidUp robots demonstrate bipedal locomotion.
• Humanoid builders - Peer Group - DroidUp develops full-size humanoid robot platforms.
• Service and public venues - Customer Environment - DroidUp robots are positioned for service and public venues.

Articles

• 2026-01-30 - DroidUp reveals Moya, a biomimetic humanoid built around social interaction - DroidUp launched Moya in Shanghai with warm silicone skin, facial actuation and a Walker 3 biped platform; small-batch reservati…