ACE Robotics

A Shanghai robot-brain company, led by SenseTime co-founder Xiaogang Wang, built around a world model.

ACE Robotics (Daxiao Robotics) was founded in Shanghai in December 2025, chaired by Xiaogang Wang, a co-founder and executive director of SenseTime, with Dacheng Tao, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, as chief scientist; a SenseTime-affiliated fund is among its existing investors. Rather than mainly building complete robots, it focuses on the “brain”: its core product is the Kairos world model, which first learns to predict how the world will change after an action, then uses that prediction to decide what to do. It open-sourced version 3.0 the same month it was founded, and also released A1, an embodied-brain module that can be installed on other companies' robot dogs and humanoids. In June 2026 it announced an angel+ round, reportedly raising several hundred million dollars in total in the first half of the year; in July it said it planned to deploy in 1,000 retail stores within a year, partnering with companies including Galbot and AgiBot.

ExampleDuring a media visit, a humanoid robot running the 4-billion-parameter on-device Kairos-4B model, with no cloud connection, autonomously watered plants and poured cereal from the fridge into a bowl.

Also called

SenseTime Daxiao, Daxiao Robotics

Related

Kairos (ACE Robotics) · World Model · Robot-Brain (Model-Only) Company · One Brain, Multiple Robots · On-device Model · AgiBot

Sources

中国日报网：首创ACE具身研发范式，大晓机器人构建具身智能开放新生态 (Chinese)
人民网上海：大晓机器人完成天使+轮融资 (Chinese)
百度百科：大晓机器人 (Chinese)

As of

2026-07