Invested in Five Companies in Nearly a Month! JD.com Intensively Enters the Embodied Intelligent Robot Sector

Paxini is also the fifth company related to household intelligent robots that JD.com has invested in over the past month.

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On August 5th, Pasini Perception Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (referred to as Pasini), a company specializing in embodied intelligence systems and sensors, announced that following successive investments from well-known domestic industrial capitals such as BYD, BAIC, SAIC, Newater Group, TCL, SenseTime, and Newland, the company has recently completed a new round of Series A financing, strategically led by JD.com, with multiple follow-up investments from Puyouxinye, Hongzhao Fund, Zhang Keyaokun, and others.

It is reported that Pacini has amassed 1 billion RMB in just four months. Moving forward, Pacini will further expand its scope and scenarios of cooperation, making efforts in more areas such as intelligent logistics sorting, flexible warehouse handling, commercial retail services, automobile manufacturing production lines, precision instrument assembly, and medical care and rehabilitation.

Battery Network noticed that Passini is also the fifth smart robot-related company invested by JD.com in the past month.

On July 30, Beijing RoboScience Technology Co., Ltd. announced the completion of an angel round financing of nearly 200 million yuan, led by JD.com, with participation from China Merchants Venture and SenseTime Guoxiang Capital. Existing shareholder Zero One Ventures also continued to invest.

RoboScience was established in December 2024 and officially began operations in March this year. Before this round of financing, it had completed tens of millions of yuan in seed funding. RoboScience is a company focused on the research and development of embodied intelligence technology, co-founded by former Apple technology director Tian Ye and Assistant Professor Shao Lin from the National University of Singapore.

On July 21, JD.com announced that it led investments in three humanoid intelligent robot companies—Qianxun Intelligent, Zhujiji Power, and Zhongqing Robotics—with a total single-day investment exceeding 1.6 billion yuan.

Qianxun Intelligence was founded in February 2024 and is an embodied intelligence company with full-stack, production-level AI+robotics technology capabilities. The company's team members come from top universities such as UC Berkeley, CMU, Tsinghua University, and Peking University, as well as well-known enterprises such as ByteDance, Xiaomi, and Tencent. In June 2025, Qianxun Intelligence officially released the Moz1, a fully actuated humanoid robot equipped with its self-developed VLA model.

Founded in January 2022, Zhujidongli is headquartered in Shenzhen and is a company specializing in embodied intelligent robots. The company focuses on developing full-size general-purpose humanoid robots, and has also created several innovative products including bipedal robots. At present, Zhujidongli’s full-size humanoid robot has completed preparations for mass production and will be publicly available for sale in the second half of this year.

Zhongqing Robotics was established in October 2023 and is headquartered in Nanshan District, Shenzhen. The company is dedicated to developing humanoid robot products that combine high intelligence with agile mobility. It has achieved full matrix coverage of gradient products with different performance characteristics, including bipedal and fully humanoid robots.

In response, a relevant person in charge at JD.com stated that the company is intensifying its efforts in areas like embodied intelligence and large models. In the future, it will continue to focus on supply chain scenarios, driving with both internal research and external investment to build an open technological innovation ecosystem.

According to Qichacha data, as of late July, there are 834 existing humanoid robot-related companies in China, with 123 newly registered this year. Among them, 105 were registered in the first half of the year, representing a year-on-year increase of 183.78%.

In addition, a recent report jointly released by research institutions EVTank, Yiwei Economic Research Institute, and China Battery Industry Research Institute, titled "White Paper on the Development of the Humanoid Robot Industry in China (2025)," points out that the humanoid robot industry is undergoing the stages of "technology breakthrough → scenario validation → mass production implementation." The year 2025 is hailed as the "first year of mass production" for humanoid robots, with shipments expected to exceed 20,000 units and the market size approaching 9 billion yuan.

As the humanoid robot industry chain gradually improves, its penetration rate in industrial and service scenarios continues to deepen. EVTank predicts that by 2035, the global demand for humanoid robots will reach 18 million units, with the market size rising to 1.5 trillion yuan.