Knowin (诺因智能) company profile
Knowin develops wheeled humanoid home robots in Shenzhen. Its domestic robot is designed for household assistance tasks such as conversation, laundry folding, drink handling and general object manipulation in home environments.
Facts
- Segment: Humanoid
- Country: China
- Founded: 2025
- Website: https://www.knowinai.com/
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Products
- Facts
- Funding
- Investors
- Supply chain
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Team
- Relationships
- Context tags
- Sources
Summary
Knowin develops wheeled humanoid home robots in Shenzhen. Its domestic robot is designed for household assistance tasks such as conversation, laundry folding, drink handling and general object manipulation in home environments.
Market context
Knowin is one of the clearer China-based attempts to build consumer-grade household humanoid robots rather than industrial embodied systems. The speed of its financing cadence and >RMB 2B post-money valuation suggest investors are treating home embodied robotics as a distinct high-conviction category, not just a spillover from industrial humanoids. Consumer household embodied-intelligence robot company; home humanoid systems for family scenarios.
- Capability: Home-scene embodied AI, household humanoid systems, general embodied model architecture (perception, generation, execution, iterative learning), full-stack robot product iteration
- Strategic position: China-based consumer-grade household humanoid builder
- Strategic position: financing cadence and >RMB 2B post-money valuation position home embodied robotics as a distinct category
Facts
- Website: https://www.knowinai.com/
- HQ: Shenzhen, China
- Founded: 2025
- Segment: Humanoid
- Known funding rounds: 3
Funding
- 2026-03-06 - Angel+ - Knowin (诺因智能) completes Angel+ round at post-money valuation above RMB 2B - source: view.inews.qq.com
- 2025-10-01 - Angel - Knowin (诺因智能) completes angel round led by L2F Guangyuan Entrepreneurs Fund - source: finance.sina.com.cn
- 2025-07-01 - Seed - Knowin (诺因智能) completes seed round led by Source Code Rhythm - source: 36kr.com
Investors
- L2F 光源创业者基金 - Lead - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-07-01 - latest 2025-10-01
- 源码律动 - Lead - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-07-01 - latest 2025-10-01
- L2F Guangyuan Entrepreneurs Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-06
- Source Code Rhythm - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-06
- Zhongding Capital - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-06
Supply chain
Consumer humanoid/embodied AI (36Kr).
- Layer: oem_builders
- Role types: Robot OEM
- Robotics categories: humanoid, consumer, home
- Profile confidence: high
Consumer home humanoid company
Knowin develops consumer-grade home humanoid robots and embodied AI technology for household tasks and domestic interaction.
- Target environment: Homes, apartments, household task spaces, smart-home environments and domestic service robot testing.
- Deployment model: Consumer humanoid development supported by embodied AI models, synthetic data and investor-backed commercialization plans.
- Customer context: Future home users, smart-home customers, consumer robotics buyers and early adopters of domestic humanoids.
- Workflow context: Household assistance, laundry handling, cleaning, object manipulation, home interaction and domestic task learning.
- Commercial maturity: Early-stage consumer humanoid company with funding and valuation visibility. Scaling depends on home-use reliability, affordability, safety, support, and proof that consumer humanoid tasks are usefu…
- Market position: Chinese home humanoid developer focused on consumer domestic service rather than industrial robotics.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on useful household task coverage, price, safety, reliability, consumer trust, support and home-environment variability.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes household humanoids, consumer service robots, domestic mobile manipulation and embodied AI for homes.
- Source confidence: medium
Events
- 2026-03-06 - Funding - Knowin (诺因智能) completes Angel+ round at post-money valuation above RMB 2B - Knowin announced completion of an Angel+ financing round on 2026-03-06 with post-money valuation above RMB 2B
- 2025-10-01 - Funding - Knowin (诺因智能) completes angel round led by L2F Guangyuan Entrepreneurs Fund - March 2026 financing coverage says Knowin later completed an angel round after its seed financing
- 2025-07-01 - Funding - Knowin (诺因智能) completes seed round led by Source Code Rhythm - March 2026 financing coverage says Knowin had previously completed a seed round after founding in July 2025
Team
- Li Yinchuan - Founder - Li is the founder of Knowin, an embodied-AI company focused on home humanoid robotics.
Relationships
- Source Code Capital - investor - Source Code Capital in Knowin seed (36Kr).
- L2F - investor - L2F on Knowin seed/angel path (36Kr).
- Eastern Bell Capital - investor - Eastern Bell led Knowin Angel+ (36Kr).
Context tags
- IT services robotics context - Peer Group
- IT services layer - Stack Layer
- IT services - Workflow
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