Chinese Startup MaxRock Robot Secures $15M in New Funds

On Tuesday, MaxRock Robot AI Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. announced its completion of an angel round and Pre-A round of financing, amounting to a total of nearly 100 million yuan ($15.78 million). The lead investor in the second round was Glory Ventures, alongside co-investors including Oriza Holdings, Milestone Investment, Y&R Capital and Scale Partners. The funds are to be implemented for R&D, production and team building for the next stage.

MaxRock Robot was established in June 2021. It is currently engaged in the R&D of an intelligent cleaning robot called  “Aurora No. 1.” This robot primarily serves for the cleaning of small and medium-sized public areas, such as buildings around the community. Its functions include sweeping, vacuuming and mopping, and it can relieve repetitive human work, which will help to substantially boost digital transformation under the trend of coordinated human-machine development.

Aurora No. 1 is now in pre-production and is used in the lobby of Sunac HQ, Zhongguancun Dongsheng Science and Technology Park, Shanshui Plaza, Beijing Cultural Industrial Park and other pilot sites.

MaxRock Robot also plans to upgrade Aurora No.1, expand production capacity and delivery scale in the first half of 2022, and start mass production and batch delivery in the second half this year.

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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020, sweeper robots, the newest internet star in the smart home appliance category, came out of a counter-trend upward sales curve. This strong growth continues along with technological innovation amid fierce competition. All View Cloud data show that in the first half of 2021, sales of sweeping robots reached 2.8 million units, with a retail scale of 5.3 billion yuan, an increase of 39% year-on-year.