Chongqing-based embodied AI startup building end-to-end intelligent robots for industrial and logistics automation.
Dexmal, founded in March 2025 and headquartered in Chongqing, China, is an embodied intelligence startup developing integrated software and hardware robotic systems for industrial and logistics automation. Founded by Tang Wenbin (alumnus of Tsinghua University's Yao Class and former co-founder and CTO of Megvii) alongside key Megvii veterans, Dexmal applies end-to-end large language models (LLM), vision-language models (VLM), and reinforcement learning to endow robots with universality, reliability, dexterity, and intelligence. The company has released Dexbotic, an open-source PyTorch-based vision-language-action toolbox, and the DOS-W1 open-source robot hardware platform.
Dexmal co-developed RoboChallenge with Hugging Face — the world's first large-scale real-robot evaluation platform for embodied intelligence. The company has raised nearly CNY 1 billion ($138M) across Series A and A+ rounds led by NIO Capital and Alibaba Group.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Open-source robot hardware platform enabling low-threshold deployment and modification of embodied AI robots.
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