Maniformer raises several hundred million yuan for physical-AI data infrastructure

Aug 17, 2026 · Funding · Maniformer · Data Infrastructure

Maniformer completed a new several-hundred-million-yuan financing to expand MEgo hardware production and its physical-AI data platform.

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  • China Telecom led the financing; Zhangjiang Group joined, while Sequoia China and Yuanqi Innovation increased their investments.
  • MEgo devices collect synchronised environmental and hand-operation data without requiring a robot body.
  • Funding supports MEgo production, data governance, closed-loop evaluation and million-hour-scale physical-interaction data capacity.

Maniformer provides physical-AI data collection, governance and evaluation infrastructure for embodied-intelligence teams. Its MEgo hardware captures human interaction without a robot body, while MEgo Engine handles reconstruction, multimodal annotation, quality assessment and dataset iteration.