Hangzhou embodied-AI company behind the Manas foundation model, LingMao quadruped robot and proprietary high-torque-density joint actuators.
Universal Ubiquitous AI Co., Ltd., known in China as Uniubi or UNIUBI AI, was founded in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province in March 2014. The company's early technical reputation was built on computer vision and face recognition, including a second-place global ranking on the LFW face-recognition benchmark in 2015, and it has since repositioned around embodied intelligence, describing itself as a provider of smart-construction and spatial-digitalization hardware and software with deployments reported across more than 90 countries and regions. Uniubi holds China's national-level Little Giant (specialized, refined, differentiated and innovative) SME designation and has been repeatedly listed among China's quasi-unicorn companies, alongside reported quality accreditations that include CMMI Level 5 and a PIA privacy-assessment rating.
The current product line spans three layers. At the model layer is Manas, a general-purpose embodied-AI foundation model built around vision-first perception, a lightweight SLAM module aimed at low-compute edge platforms, and an asynchronous decision architecture the company says allows robots to plan and react without relying on pre-built maps or teleoperation; Manas is positioned to run on quadruped robots, humanoid platforms and industrial carts for sorting, inspection and material-handling tasks. At the robot layer, Uniubi manufactures its own quadruped platform, marketed as LingMao Cyvet, an industrial-grade payload chassis rated for roughly 20 kilograms of onboard equipment such as robotic arms, radar or compute modules, powered by a 432 Wh battery for about 5.5 hours of unloaded runtime or roughly 3.5 hours carrying 15 kilograms, optionally fitted with an NVIDIA Jetson Orin compute module rated up to 157 TOPS, and supporting 4G connectivity, live video transmission, over-the-air updates and remote takeover for embodied-AI developers and research teams. At the component layer, the company designs its own frameless joint actuator, a 55mm by 73mm module weighing about 530 grams, rated for an 18 to 60V input (48V nominal) with 24A peak phase current, 54 Nm peak torque and a torque-to-weight ratio of about 102 Nm per kilogram, using a single-turn absolute encoder at 14-bit resolution and CANFD communication at 5 Mbps with 1 kHz control-loop rates, supporting position, velocity, torque and motion control modes.
Beyond hardware and foundation models, Uniubi continues to sell AI-agent software rooted in its original edge-vision expertise, including a construction-site safety-monitoring agent and a family of vertical applications addressed at industrial parks, factories, residential communities and hotels under a spatial-intelligence product line, together with a smart-lighting product. The company's own published financing timeline lists an angel round in 2015 followed by Series A, A-plus, Pre-B, B1, B2 and C1 rounds (C1 dated May 2023), a Pre-IPO round in 2024 and a further Pre-IPO-plus round in January 2026, without disclosing amounts; no stock-exchange listing has been identified for the company itself.
Published contact channels include a Hangzhou front-desk line, a nationwide customer-service hotline, and department-specific email addresses for press and brand cooperation, overseas sales, after-sales support and recruiting, though the company's own site does not disclose a street-level headquarters address or an employee headcount, both left unverified here.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Embodied-AI foundation model with vision-first perception, lightweight edge SLAM, and interactive autonomy for quadrupeds, humanoids and AMRs.
Quadruped R&D platform, ~20kg payload, 432Wh battery (~5.5h idle/~3.5h at 15kg), optional Jetson Orin (157 TOPS), 4G/OTA link for embodied-AI research.
Frameless joint actuator, 55x73mm, ~530g, 18-60V input (48V nominal), 54Nm peak torque, 102Nm/kg torque density, CANFD at 5Mbps, 1kHz control loop.
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2014
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Manufacturer
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Asia-Pacific
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Growth / Late-Stage VC
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