Physical AI infrastructure company providing SimReady assets, egocentric data, and evaluation platforms to train and deploy robots at scale.
Lightwheel is a Physical AI infrastructure company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2023 by Dr. Steve Xie, who previously led autonomous driving simulation at Cruise, NVIDIA, and NIO. The company builds three core products: a SimReady Library of physically accurate 3D assets for robot training simulation; EgoSuite, a globally scalable egocentric human motion data solution; and RoboFinals, an industrial-grade simulation evaluation platform for frontier VLA and world models. Lightwheel serves customers including Google DeepMind, Figure, AgiBot, ByteDance, BYD, Geely, Fourier, and Galbot.
In Q1 2026 the company reported $100M in orders. It has raised approximately $147M including a strategic round backed by government-linked and corporate investors.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Library of 2,000+ physically accurate, visually realistic 3D assets and scenes for scalable robot training in simulation.
Globally scalable egocentric human data collection platform for training physical AI and embodied robot foundation models.
Industrial-grade simulation evaluation platform for benchmarking frontier VLA and world models in robot deployment scenarios.
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https://lightwheel.aiHEADQUARTERS
United States
Company Facts
Founded
2023
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North America
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