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Former Xiaomi executive Cui Baoqiu has launched RuoBan Technology, a new company focused on home robots. The venture has secured seed funding from prominent investors including IDG Capital and Xiaomi's own venture arm, Shunwei Capital. Cui, known for his work on Xiaomi's AIoT ecosystem and the "Xiao Ai" voice assistant, aims to leverage his experience and an open-source community approach to develop practical, cost-effective home robots. AI

Jianzhi Robot, a provider of embodied AI solutions, has secured several rounds of multi-hundred-million yuan in funding, with Ant Group, Didi, and Dealian Capital leading the investment. This funding marks the largest to date for the embodied AI data sector and positions Jianzhi Robot as the company with the highest cumulative funding in this field. The company focuses on generating high-fidelity, multimodal human behavior data, driven by a "model defines data standards" philosophy, to accelerate the development of embodied AI models. AI