EngineAI raises nearly $140M to develop legged, humanoid robots - The Robot Report

EngineAI, a Shenzhen-based robotics company, has raised nearly $140 million (RMB 1 billion) through its pre-A++ and A1 funding rounds to advance the development and commercialization of legged humanoid robots. The company plans to use the capital to scale trial production, expand its workforce fivefold, and diversify its product lines, focusing on bipedal and full humanoid robots. EngineAI’s technology combines proprietary joint modules that deliver high power, torque, and precision with a hybrid control system integrating traditional controls and reinforcement learning (RL), enabling lifelike, dynamic movements such as complex dances and sprinting with millimeter-level accuracy. EngineAI aims to penetrate the growing global humanoid robotics market, projected by various analysts to reach anywhere from $15 billion by 2030 to $5 trillion by 2050, driven by demand in manufacturing, logistics, and services. The company employs an “open-source hardware + ecosystem profit-sharing” model to accelerate market adoption through strategic partnerships with