D-Robotics raises $270M Series B to scale its robot chip and platform ecosystem

D-Robotics closed a $150 million Series B2 round on April 8, 2026, bringing its total Series B financing to $270 million. The B2 round was backed by Prosperity7 Ventures, Envision Group, THE Capital, YF Capital, T-Capital, and others. The Series B1, completed in March 2026, raised $120 million from Synstellation Capital, Didi, Meituan Longzhu, and existing investors including Hillhouse, Vertex Growth, and Linear Capital. Total disclosed funding across all rounds now stands at approximately $370 million.

The spinoff

D-Robotics was formally spun off from Horizon Robotics in May 2024. Horizon is a Hong Kong-listed automotive chip company known for designing AI processors for advanced driver-assistance systems and autonomous driving, and is one of China's most established names in productised automotive AI silicon. D-Robotics applies the same chip-and-platform philosophy to the robotics market: rather than manufacturing robots, the company builds the processors, development kits, and software infrastructure that robot makers build on. The model has a clear analogy in the automotive AI market Horizon came from, where a platform company selling chips and tooling to OEMs captured more durable value than any single vehicle programme.

The platform

D-Robotics launched the RDK S100 development kit in June 2025, described at the time as the industry's first system-on-a-chip platform integrating AI inference and motion control functions into a single unit, enabling coordinated perception and motion control without separate processors. Its RDK S600 is a higher-performance development platform natively compatible with Horizon Robotics' open-source foundation models, HoloMotion for motion control and HoloBrain for cognitive reasoning, enabling deep optimisation across the hardware-software stack. Horizon open-sourced HoloMotion and HoloBrain in November 2025 and further open-sourced HoloBrain-0 in February 2026. The tight alignment between D-Robotics' chips and Horizon's open-source models creates a combined hardware-software stack for Chinese robot developers who want to avoid building from scratch.

Traction

In 2025, D-Robotics reported annual shipments rising 180% year-on-year and its customer base growing 200%. More than 100 robot models now feature D-Robotics chips across consumer robotics and embodied AI applications. Its developer ecosystem has expanded to more than 100,000 global developers across 20-plus countries, up 100% year-on-year. The company's Gravity accelerator programme has supported more than 500 small and mid-sized development teams, of which more than 200 have brought commercially successful products to market. D-Robotics has partnered with over 60 upstream and downstream players to build integrated hardware-software solutions. Named adopters of the RDK S100 platform include Leju Robotics, LimX Dynamics, and RealMan Robotics, alongside Tsinghua University's AI Institute.

The investor composition

Prosperity7 Ventures is the growth investment arm of Saudi Aramco, bringing energy-sector and industrial exposure to D-Robotics' investor base. Envision Group is a Chinese wind energy and green technology company diversifying into robotics infrastructure. Didi and Meituan Longzhu, the ride-hailing and food delivery giants from the Series B1, represent two of the largest logistics and autonomous systems operators in China, both of which have direct strategic interest in robotics development platforms at scale.

Maturity

D-Robotics does not build or sell robots; its revenue comes from chips, development kits, and platform software. No revenue figures have been publicly disclosed. The 180% shipment growth, the 100,000-developer ecosystem, and the 200-plus products brought to market through the Gravity programme are the primary traction signals available. The company's value proposition is infrastructure: its validation comes from the number of robot companies building on it, not from its own deployed fleet.

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