Horizon Robotics

A Beijing smart-driving chip company also building robot chips and VLA models.

Horizon Robotics was founded in Beijing in July 2015; its founder, Kai Yu, previously led autonomous-driving and other research at Baidu. Its main business is its Journey series of smart-driving chips and accompanying algorithms, reportedly holding nearly half of China's autonomous-driving chip market in 2023; it listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in October 2024 (ticker 9660). It connects to embodied AI in two ways: first, its robot computing-platform business has spun off as the independent company D-Robotics, which makes robot development boards such as the RDK S100; second, its own team open-sourced the VLA model HoloBrain-0 in February 2026, along with RoboOrchard, a toolchain covering data, training, and deployment. It is a representative example of autonomous-driving talent moving into embodied AI.

ExampleHoloBrain-0 feeds camera parameters and a robot's URDF structural description into the model together, and is pretrained on data from multiple robot arms plus human-hand video.

Related

HoloBrain-0 · D-Robotics · D-Robotics RDK S100 · Horizon Robotics OpenExplorer · Autonomous-Driving Talent Moving into Embodied AI · Autonomous Driving

Sources

Horizon Robotics - Wikipedia
HoloBrain-0 (arXiv 2602.12062)

As of

2026-02