Robotera raised $340M in a year and is already delivering parcels for China Post

Robotera / 星尘智能 (Xingchen Zhineng) — a company already featured in comparative reviews of humanoid platforms alongside AgiBot and UBTech — closed two major financing rounds in 2026 totaling over $340 million: a strategic round of 1 billion yuan (about $146 million) in March, and an additional $200 million in May led by logistics giant SF Group with participation from HSG and IDG Capital, according to business media.

From demos to thousand-unit deliveries

The key signal of maturity isn't the funding volume itself but what it's being spent on: the company has begun thousand-unit deliveries of humanoid robots and is already operating them across more than 10 logistics centers through partnerships with China Post and SF Group. It's one of the few documented cases where a Chinese humanoid works not in a showroom or a single pilot site, but across a network of a dozen real logistics facilities simultaneously.

Why SF Group is investing, not just buying

The logistics giant that led the May round isn't a random financial partner: SF Group operates its own extensive network of distribution centers and has a direct interest in steering the technology it's testing in a direction that suits it. This model — where a large corporate customer simultaneously becomes an investor in its supplier startup — reduces the risk for Robotera of losing its sales channel once the money runs out, while giving SF Group influence over the development roadmap.

Stock market plans and vertical integration

The Beijing- and Shenzhen-based company is preparing for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, aiming to capitalize on the investment appetite for automation clearly demonstrated by Unitree's IPO. Worth noting separately is the company's claim that over 95% of core components — including actuation systems, humanoid platforms, and precision manipulation technology — are developed in-house rather than sourced from third parties, sharply reducing dependence on external supply chains as production scales.

A catalog of Chinese humanoid robot manufacturers is available on the Aura Robotics site.