MindOn

Market context

MindOn is relevant because it represents the software-first side of humanoid robotics: the attempt to sell the brain and training stack rather than the body. That makes it a cleaner infrastructure-layer company than a robot OEM, and potentially an important signal in the emerging market for humanoid foundation-model and control layers.

Facts

• Website: https://www.mindon.tech
• HQ: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
• Founded: 2025
• Segment: Foundation Models
• Known funding rounds: 3

Funding

• 2026-06-30 - Series Pre-A - MindOn completes Series Pre-A financing - source: mindon.tech
• 2026-03-10 - Angel + Pre-A - $291M - MindOn completes RMB 2 billion across angel and Pre-A funding rounds - source: psibot.ai
• 2024-11-13 - Angel - MindOn raises angel funding led by Hillhouse and Lanchi - source: psibot.ai

Investors

• Gaorong Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-30
• Granite Asia - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-30
• MSA - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-30
• Prosperity7 Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-30
• Binfu Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• Bohua Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• CCTV Rongmedia Industry Investment Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• Damai Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• Guokai Financial - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• Guozhong Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• Junshan Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• Pufeng Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• Taiming Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• Wofu Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• Wuxi Venture Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• Xuhui Capital - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• Yangtze Optical Fibre affiliated fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• Yanyuan Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• YuanSheng Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• Zhuhai Technology Industry Group - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-10
• Hillhouse Ventures - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-11-13
• Lanchi Ventures - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-11-13

Embodied AI software company for humanoids

MindOn develops embodied AI software for humanoid robots, with public demos centered on home-task execution using existing robot hardware.

• Target environment: Home robotics demos, humanoid development labs, embodied AI testing and domestic manipulation environments.
• Deployment model: Software-layer development for humanoid control and task execution rather than a proprietary full robot hardware platform.
• Customer context: Humanoid developers, AI labs, robotics researchers and companies testing domestic robot capabilities.
• Workflow context: Home task execution, robot control, physical AI software, video demonstration, manipulation behavior and embodied model evaluation.
• Commercial maturity: Early-stage robotics software company with attention from demonstration-led activity. Scaling depends on durable customer use, integration quality, task reliability, and a clear commercial wedge bey…
• Market position: Embodied AI software layer for humanoid robots and household task automation.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on transparency, repeatability, hardware compatibility, safety, real autonomy evidence and commercial integration.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes humanoid software, embodied AI demos, home robot control and physical AI foundation models.
• Source confidence: low

Events

• 2026-06-30 - Funding - MindOn completes Series Pre-A financing - The official announcement disclosed no round amount. MindOn said the funding supports robot data-engine scaling, model capability expansion and real-world deployment in healthcare, construction, warehousing and manufacturing. The company framed its approach a…
• 2026-03-29 - Award - MindOn wins EAI-100 recognition and two embodied AI awards - MindOn said it was selected to the EAI-100 embodied AI annual list on the strength of its dexterous-manipulation algorithms and VLA model work. The same event also recognized co-founder Chen Yuanpei in the EAI Pioneer 20 list and awarded the company's mahjong…
• 2026-03-10 - Funding - MindOn completes RMB 2 billion across angel and Pre-A funding rounds - MindOn said it completed angel and Pre-A financing totaling RMB 2 billion, with state-backed and industrial investors participating across both rounds. The company said the capital will be used for scaled deployment in logistics scenarios and for building a l…
• 2026-01-15 - Award - MindOn recognized at the 2025 Entrepreneur 100 Future Unicorn conference - MindOn said it was named to the 2025 Entrepreneur 100 Future Unicorn list at the 18th Entrepreneur annual conference. Founder and CEO Wang Qibin also took part in the event's roundtable discussion, where the company positioned long-horizon dexterous manipulat…
• 2025-11-14 - Demonstration - MindOn goes viral with Unitree G1 household-chore autonomy demo - MindOn released a widely circulated demo showing a Unitree G1 handling household tasks including watering plants, opening curtains, collecting a delivery, wiping surfaces, sorting items, and picking up trash. The company's central claim in the demo was "no sp…
• 2025-06-16 - Demonstration - MindOn showcases embodied AI stack at NVIDIA startup exhibition during Volcano Engine FORCE 2025 - MindOn said it was invited to exhibit at the NVIDIA startup showcase held alongside Volcano Engine's 2025 FORCE conference in Beijing. The company used the event to present its VLA architecture, in-house dexterous hand, reinforcement-learning manipulation alg…
• 2025-04-29 - Capability - MindOn expands Psi R1 with reinforcement-learning-based generalization upgrade - Two days after the initial Psi R1 release, MindOn published a second post highlighting generalization gains from combining VLA with reinforcement learning. The company said the updated system demonstrated millimeter-level dexterous manipulation, rule understa…
• 2025-04-27 - Product Launch - MindOn launches Psi R1 for long-horizon complex embodied tasks - MindOn introduced Psi R1 as a VLA model aimed at long-horizon complex task execution in open environments, using mahjong as its flagship demonstration scenario. The company framed the release around multi-step reasoning, dynamic strategy generation, fine-grai…
• 2025-03-03 - Product Launch - MindOn releases Psi R0.5 end-to-end VLA model with lower data requirements - MindOn announced Psi R0.5 as an enhanced end-to-end VLA model built on a reinforcement-learning-augmented hierarchical architecture. The company said the release improved generalization, dexterity, chain-of-thought behavior, and long-horizon task capability w…
• 2025-02-28 - Demonstration - MindOn appears at the 2025 Global Developer Conference as the only invited embodied foundation-model company - MindOn said it was the only invited embodied-model company at the 2025 Global Developer Conference. The post framed the appearance around a full stack from core algorithms to commercialization, with emphasis on dexterous operation, embodied intelligence model…
• 2024-12-30 - Product Launch - MindOn launches Psi R0 as an end-to-end reinforcement-learning embodied model - MindOn introduced Psi R0 as its first end-to-end embodied model based on reinforcement learning. The company said the model supports bimanual dexterous manipulation, multi-skill chaining, and scene- and object-level generalization for long-horizon tasks. The…
• 2024-11-13 - Funding - MindOn raises angel funding led by Hillhouse and Lanchi - MindOn announced completion of its angel round, led by Hillhouse and Lanchi, before later disclosing the larger combined angel and Pre-A total in 2026. The company framed the round around reinforcement-learning-first embodied intelligence and long-horizon man…

Team

• Zhu Qingxu - Founder
• Zhou Qinqin - Co-founder

Context tags

• Autonomy software platform - Stack Layer - MindOn develops robot intelligence software for humanoids and other robot forms.
• Embodied AI model layer - Stack Layer - MindOn describes a general-purpose intelligence system for robots and VLA/RL model work.
• Dexterous manipulation - Capability - MindOn public materials emphasize long-horizon dexterous manipulation and household/service task execution.
• Embodied data capture - Stack Layer - MindOn funding materials describe scaling a robot data engine and embodied-data collection.