Qiongche Intelligence

Market context

Part of the emerging "robot brain" layer in China, competing to build foundation models for physical systems rather than robots themselves. Emphasizes real-world data loops and cross-robot generalization.

Facts

• Website: https://www.noematrix.ai
• HQ: Shanghai, China
• Founded: 2023
• Segment: Foundation Models
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2026-06-18 - Latest financing - Noematrix raises hundreds of millions of yuan for embodied-AI brain stack - source: autonews.gasgoo.com

Investors

• AI Future Fund of Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-18
• Shanghai Chuangzhi College affiliate - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-18
• Wuxi Data Group - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-18
• Yicun Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-18

Qiongche Intelligence role in embodied-AI infrastructure

Chinese embodied AI company (穹彻智能), also known as Noematrix. Focuses on building general-purpose embodied intelligence systems ("Noematrix Brain") for robotics, covering perception, planning, and control trained on large-scale real-world interaction data. Part of the emerging "robot brain" layer in China, competing to build foundation models for physical systems rather than robots themselves. Emphasizes real-world data loops and cross-robot generalization.

• Target environment: Embodied-AI development, robot learning, simulation, autonomy software, data infrastructure and model-to-robot deployment.
• Deployment model: Software, data or model layer supporting robot learning, autonomy, simulation, control and physical-world deployment.
• Customer context: AI labs, robotics developers, autonomy teams, data customers, simulation users and robot-learning researchers.
• Workflow context: Model training, simulation, data capture, policy learning, autonomy integration, evaluation and robot behavior adaptation.
• Commercial maturity: Embodied AI company building a general-purpose robot intelligence layer around perception, planning and control.
• Market position: Intelligence-layer participant for embodied AI, robot learning, data, simulation or autonomy software.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on model reliability, data quality, hardware compatibility, safety, integration effort and proof on real tasks.
• Adjacent context: Embodied AI, VLA models, robot learning, simulation, data infrastructure, autonomy software and physical AI.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-06-18 - Funding - Noematrix raises hundreds of millions of yuan for embodied-AI brain stack - The round was led by Wuxi Data Group, with investors including the AI Future Fund of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Noematrix develops embodied-intelligence models for robot perception, planning and action in physical environments.
• 2024-07-04 - Product Launch - Qiongche Intelligence launches Noematrix Brain embodied AI system - Introduces "Noematrix Brain" as a general-purpose embodied intelligence system for robotics Provides end-to-end capability from perception to action across multiple robot types Designed for real-world deployment using large-scale interaction data rather than…

Team

• Lu Cewu - Co-Founder - Adds research-founder context for Noematrix Brain and the company's embodied intelligence foundation-model work.
• Wang Shiquan - Co-Founder - Adds robotics-founder context for Noematrix's embodied intelligence platform and its connection to adaptive robotics commercialization.