Lumos Robotics

A Shenzhen humanoid-robot company that also makes FastUMI, an embodiment-free data-collection device.

Lumos Robotics was founded in Bao'an, Shenzhen in 2024; its founder and CEO, Chao Yu, graduated from Tsinghua and previously led Dreame Technology's embodied-robotics business, and had worked on Xiaomi's CyberDog (“Tiedan”). Its products include the full-size LUS humanoid series, the heavy-payload, wheeled-arm MOS series, and components including joint actuator modules and visuotactile modules; on the data side, it is best known for FastUMI, a handheld data-collection device that follows the Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) approach and needs no real robot, with a product family released in March 2026. It closed several angel and Pre-A rounds in 2025, then Series A1 and A2 rounds led by Mitsubishi Electric in May 2026, for close to RMB 1 billion in total funding.

ExampleA data collector holds a FastUMI gripper and performs actions like opening a drawer or folding clothes in a real home; the recorded video and pose trajectory are used directly to train a robot policy.

Also called

Lumos, Shenzhen Lumos Robotics Technology

Related

Universal Manipulation Interface · FastUMI · Robot-free (Embodiment-free) Data Collection · Humanoid Robot · MagicLab · Joint Actuator Module

Sources

鹿明机器人完成数亿元A1及A2轮融资（雷峰网，2026-05-11） (Chinese)
半年三轮，鹿明机器人完成天使++轮融资（投资界） (Chinese)
清华系具身智能公司获数亿Pre-A轮融资（36氪） (Chinese)

As of

2026-05