Acorn Robot closes Angel round and releases Natus AGE-0
Acorn Robot closed an undisclosed Angel round co-led by China Merchants Venture Capital and NIO Capital and released its Natus AGE-0 embodied-manipulation model.
Evidence notes
- China Merchants Venture Capital and NIO Capital co-led the undisclosed Angel round, with Shuimu Tsinghua Alumni Seed Fund also participating.
- Acorn describes Natus AGE-0 as a tactile, interaction-first model intended to work across robot bodies and materials without large task-specific pretraining datasets.
- The company allocated proceeds to model development, product engineering, brand building and commercial-team expansion after a near-RMB100 million seed round disclosed in June.
Company context
Acorn Robot develops Natus embodied-manipulation systems for flexible industrial production. AGE-0 uses tactile feedback and contact mechanics to support cross-material, cross-task interaction without large task-specific training sets.