Simplexity Robotics - 至简动力

Simplexity Robotics is a Chinese embodied-AI startup founded in late July 2025 with operations across Beijing, Shanghai and Suzhou, led by CEO Jia Peng. The company's stated mission is to build general-purpose humanoid robots by combining a self-developed unified foundation model with reliable robotic hardware and an efficient data-collection loop, under a company philosophy summarized as "Simple is Scalable" (in Chinese, roughly "great simplicity governs complexity"). Its published technical roadmap centers on four pillars it calls One Model, One Body, On Device and One Hour: a single unified embodied foundation model intended to generalize across tasks, one universal robot platform rather than multiple specialized designs, edge/on-device inference for real-time control, and rapid on-device training said to let a robot acquire a new manipulation skill within about an hour. Simplexity has publicly named several proprietary AI models under development, including LaST-R1, DeepVision-VLA, TwinRL and a broader LaST model series, aimed at vision-language-action control and manipulation learning for humanoid robots. As of March 2026, the company reported it had closed five funding rounds within six months of its founding, raising a cumulative total of roughly RMB 2 billion (about USD 280 million), a pace of fundraising that Chinese tech media described as making it the youngest unicorn-valued company in the embodied-AI sector at that time. Industry reporting from July 2026 indicated the company had shipped an initial batch of 100 units of a humanoid robot referred to as the i7 Pro to production-line customers, though this product name and shipment detail were not independently confirmed on the company's own website, which as of this research still described its flagship "all-scenario embodied robot" as forthcoming rather than publicly specified with model numbers or datasheets. The company's target end markets, per its own materials, are manufacturing and logistics operations that require dexterous, general-purpose robotic manipulation rather than single-task automation. Simplexity maintains official contact channels for human resources ([email protected]) and press/PR ([email protected]), and is present on Chinese social platforms including WeChat, Xiaohongshu and Weibo under its Chinese account name, as well as a LinkedIn company page. No headquarters street address, employee headcount, or third-party certifications were confirmed from public sources available to this research, and these fields have been left blank rather than estimated.