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Zerith零次方机器人

LatestNew round of over RMB 100M (Apr 2026)

Undisclosed (to be confirmed)

Hefei Zerith Robotics Co., Ltd.

China's first robot company to achieve ultra-long-horizon multi-task continuous operation in dedicated scenarios; focused on hotel, restaurant and other commercial service scenarios; self-built mass-production manufacturing system delivering 100 units per month

Humanoid RobotsChina

数据截至2026-08-19

FoundedJan 2025
HQHefei (original notes said Beijing, to be confirmed; co-incubated by Tsinghua University and the Jianghuai Advanced Technology Collaborative Innovation Center)
FounderMin Yuheng, Cheng Yi
Products5 items
Funding Rounds4 rounds
Events6 items

About

Zerith was founded in Hefei in January 2025, jointly incubated by Tsinghua University and the Jianghuai Advanced Technology Collaborative Innovation Center; founders Min Yuheng and Cheng Yi are post-2000s members of Tsinghua's AI & Robot lab, and the team exceeds 100 people. It is China's first robot company to achieve ultra-long-horizon multi-task continuous operation in dedicated scenarios, attacking hotels, restaurants and other commercial services first, exploiting three properties — rigid task boundaries, controllable environmental disturbance and controllable data diversity — to iterate quickly, moving from 'single-point breakthrough' toward 'mesh capability transfer'. In May 2025 it released the Zerith-V0 manipulation foundation model and the Zerith-H1 arm-on-wheel humanoid; in June it launched the industry's first full-modal full-chain data solution; it built its own mass-production manufacturing system, delivering the ZERITH-H1 from July 2025 and reaching 100 units per month in December, with orders breaking RMB 100M in early 2026. It has landed in 20+ commercial landmarks including Hefei Xinqiao Airport and the MixC OLE supermarket, with four rounds from Angel to the latest (Baohe Venture Capital, Cowin Capital, Runze Group, etc.), targeting robot per-unit usage cost at 60% of human labor within three years.

Technical Approach

With a dedicated-scenario embodied manipulation foundation model at the core, it exploits the three properties of commercial service scenarios — rigid task boundaries, controllable environmental disturbance and controllable data diversity — for data-driven rapid iteration in niche scenarios, moving from 'single-point breakthrough' to 'mesh capability transfer'. Uses 4D spatiotemporal data augmentation to improve model generalization. Its full-modal data foundation addresses the embodied industry's four pain points: 'missing modalities, cumbersome processes, complex management, and high barriers to training-inference-deployment'.

Commercialization(5)

  • Self-built embodied robot production and manufacturing system; ZERITH-H1 delivered progressively from July 2025, shipping at scale in August, with about 500 units expected delivered in 2025; reached 100 units per month in December 2025 (per original notes)
  • Has won tens of millions RMB in orders with intent orders totaling nearly RMB 100M, covering research education, data centers, hotel service and cultural exhibitions — a 'golden matrix' of commercialization; orders broke RMB 100M in early 2026 (per original notes)
  • Landed in 20+ commercial landmarks including Hefei Xinqiao Airport and the MixC OLE supermarket (per original notes)
  • At the July 9, 2025 DEMO DAY, 10+ embodied application scenarios ran over 4 hours with zero failures
  • Aims to cut robot per-unit usage cost to 60% of human labor within three years

Position & Strengths(5)

  • China's first robot company to achieve ultra-long-horizon multi-task continuous operation in dedicated scenarios
  • Focused on commercial service verticals with a 'data-driven + scenario closed loop' dual strategy — first penetrate vertically, then transfer to complex scenarios
  • The industry's first company with the full data workflow and toolchain (full-modal data foundation)
  • A complete self-built mass-production manufacturing system with a fast production cadence (volume delivery achieved within six months of founding)
  • Tsinghua-lineage technical endorsement plus Hefei industrial capital and government resources (Baohe Venture Capital followed three consecutive rounds)

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