Shanghai Sazhi raises hundreds of millions of yuan for six-armed factory robots
What's the deal? Shanghai Sazhi Intelligent Technology has closed a Pre-B round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, the industrial embodied-AI robotics maker said. Investors include Jianto Investment, Nantong Investment Management, and Yunqi PartnersDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. The money will fund large-model research, multi-arm robot development, factory expansion, and overseas growth.
What's the endgame? Founded in 2017, Sazhi targets complex industrial tasks — precision assembly, packaging, and long-sequence testing — that fixed traditional robots and general-purpose machines struggle to handle. Founder and chief executive officer Zhang Jianzheng holds a doctorate in intelligent robotics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and previously worked at ShinvaDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and FanucDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →.
The product: Sazhi builds robots ranging from single-arm to its six-armed "Xuanjia" model, designed to serve several production lines at once in tight spaces. At this year's WAIC, it unveiled Xuanshu SageNexus, a self-developed industrial world model trained on 360TB of multimodal data. The company says the model reaches over 99.9% reliability and holds a library of more than 2,000 skills.
By the numbers: Sazhi says it serves more than 50 Fortune 500 or listed customers across semiconductors, autos, energy, and food and pharmaceuticals. "We completed last year's full-year target in the first half of this year," Zhang said (translated from Chinese), putting annual growth at 100% to 120%. Overseas intended orders top US$68.8M.
Why now? The round follows A++ and A+++ financing in September 2026, also totalling hundreds of millions of yuan, per earlier 36Kr reporting. Sazhi's Shanghai factory is running at full capacity, and it plans to expand to roughly four times its current size within three years.
The signal: China's embodied-AI sector remains flush — companies raised US$12.9B in the first half of 2026, per IT Juzi — but investor attention is shifting from demos to real orders and stable production use. Sazhi's pitch rests on repeatable factory deployments; whether its reliability claims and customer base translate into durable revenue will shape how far the funding goes.
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