Light Origins (亮源新创) Timeline

Events

• 2026-08-14 - Funding - Light Origins raises several hundred million yuan in Pre-A financing - CAS-linked Guoke Investment led the round, with China Merchants Venture Capital and Xianghe Capital participating. The company will fund large-scale embodied-model training, multimodal data infrastructure, full-stack hardware and software R&D and team… - source: lightorigins.com
• 2026-08-01 - Research Publication - Light Origins publishes Light-Loco-Parkour for whole-body humanoid locomotion - The policy uses only onboard depth sensing and a velocity command to select walking, balancing, climbing, stepping down or vaulting without a runtime skill label, state machine or motion graph. A Real2Sim2Real pipeline expands sparse human-motion seeds… - source: arxiv.org