🤖 A fierce new player has emerged in the robotics track—Sharpa’s valuation has already climbed to 22 billion yuan!
Sharpa, a general robotics company, has released its first public financing information: total funding has exceeded 4.5 billion yuan, with a valuation of 22 billion yuan. What’s even more interesting is that this company isn’t just there to “show off”—it has already started deploying robots to work in restaurants, hotels, and retail stores.
Sharpa was founded at the end of 2024 by the founding team of Hesai Technology. It is currently focusing on dexterous hands, general-purpose robots, and AI models, and its first real-world deployment scenario is DQ stores.
Don’t underestimate the task of making an ice cream— the robot has to complete about 55 steps on its own. In plain terms, it means taking something a person feels they can do “just by being handy,” breaking it down into dozens of actions, and then teaching the robot to learn those actions itself. 🍦
I think the real worth paying attention to isn’t how high Sharpa’s valuation is right now, but the fact that robots are slowly moving from “showpieces in the lab” to tools that can actually work for businesses.
Physical AI’s future competition won’t be only about whether a robot looks like a human—it’s about who can genuinely integrate hardware, data, models, and end-to-end system capabilities into one cohesive whole.
If commercial scenarios can be proven first, and then it moves into homes in 2028, once this path succeeds, robots may not just “look smart,” but truly start becoming part of our everyday lives. 👀
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