Deep Robotics — industrial quadrupeds and humanoids from Hangzhou
Deep Robotics (Chinese: 云深处科技, Hangzhou Yunshenchu Technology) is a Chinese robotics company building industrial quadruped robots and, more recently, general-purpose humanoid robots for the commercial workforce. With the Jueying X30 flagship dominating power-substation inspection and the DR01 and DR02 humanoids extending its footprint into bipedal platforms, Deep Robotics has positioned itself among the leading players of the current humanoid robotics and AI boom, alongside Unitree, Boston Dynamics, and ANYbotics.
- 2017Founded
- Hangzhou, ChinaHeadquarters
- Jueying X30Flagship quadruped
- ~$140MFunding raised
- ChinaCountry
- Private (IPO filed)Status
About Deep Robotics
Deep Robotics — officially Hangzhou Yunshenchu Technology Co., Ltd. — was founded on November 29, 2017 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, by Zhu Qiuguo and Li Chao. Both founders hold doctorates from Zhejiang University's College of Control Science and Engineering; Zhu had been an associate professor and PhD advisor at ZJU, with doctoral research on bipedal humanoid robots including the university's "Wukong" humanoid platform. The company began as a Zhejiang University spinout with the stated ambition of "letting robots out of the laboratory" and directly challenging global leaders in legged robotics.
The company's early product line centered on the Jueying series of quadruped robots — named after Cao Cao's legendary horse — beginning with the Jueying Pro in 2018 and the industrial Jueying X20 in 2021, the same year Deep Robotics demonstrated a side-flip on a quadruped. Unlike consumer-focused rivals, Deep Robotics targeted industrial work from the outset, and became the first company in China to deploy fully autonomous quadruped robots in power-substation inspection. That specialism is now the core of the business: its Jueying X30 dogs autonomously patrol more than 100 substations with China's State Grid Corporation and China Southern Power Grid, and per the company's IPO prospectus have logged over one million cumulative inspection kilometers.
Funding has come in waves aligned with the broader humanoid robotics and AI boom. Deep Robotics closed early-stage rounds in 2020 and 2021, a Series B in 2022, and a Series B+ in August 2024. In December 2025, it announced a Series C of over 500 million RMB (approximately $70 million) co-led by CMB International and China Asset Management, with strategic participation from funds affiliated with China Telecom and China Unicom, plus additional investors including Yunhui Capital, the Zhejiang University Education Foundation, and existing backers such as Fortune Capital, Qianhai Ark, and the Beijing Robotics Industry Development Investment Fund. Total capital raised is roughly $140 million, and the company turned profitable in 2025 and filed for a STAR Market IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Deep Robotics is frequently grouped with fellow Hangzhou hard-tech company Unitree Robotics and DeepSeek as one of "Hangzhou's Six Little Dragons," and it competes directly with Unitree, ANYbotics, and Boston Dynamics in industrial quadruped robotics. In November 2024 the company unveiled its first humanoid, DR01, at the World Robot Conference in Beijing; in October 2025 it followed with DR02, billed as the world's first "all-weather" industrial humanoid. With staff of roughly 200 concentrated in Hangzhou's Xihu District, Deep Robotics has become one of China's best-capitalized and most commercially validated legged-robot makers.
Product lineup: Lite3, Jueying X-Series, and DR01/DR02 humanoids
Deep Robotics ships a tiered portfolio spanning a lightweight research quadruped, its industrial Jueying X-Series flagships, a wheeled-quadruped Lynx hybrid, and the DR-series humanoids. Each platform is engineered around the same core competencies — dynamic locomotion, environmental perception, and embodied AI — but tuned for very different deployment envelopes, from lab benches to -20 °C substation yards.
Lite3 (2022) — the research and education quadruped
Lite3 is Deep Robotics' compact quadruped for algorithm testing, research, and education. At roughly 12–13.5 kg (variant-dependent) with a standing footprint around 610 × 370 × 406–496 mm, it is genuinely portable — one researcher can carry it to a field site or classroom — while retaining agile locomotion: 40° slope capability, 18 cm stair and obstacle clearance, and 1.5–2 hours of endurance. Lite3 ships in Basic, Venture, Pro, and LiDAR variants with ROS2-ready SDKs and published sim-to-real pipelines.
Jueying X20 (2021) — the first industrial platform
The Jueying X20 was Deep Robotics' first major industrial quadruped: 950 × 470 × 700 mm standing, roughly 53 kg, 20 kg payload, ≥4 m/s top speed, IP66 dust and water sealing, and 2–4 hours of endurance covering up to 15 km per charge. It remains a workhorse platform for power inspection, security patrol, and applied research.
Jueying X30 (2023) — the current industrial flagship
Jueying X30 is the company's headline industrial quadruped and the platform behind its power-grid inspection business. It stands roughly 1000 × 695 × 470 mm, weighs 56 kg with battery, carries a 20 kg payload, handles slopes up to 45° and 20 cm obstacles, and is rated IP67 with a -20 °C to 55 °C operating range — engineered for extreme temperatures, rain, dust, and multi-hour autonomous patrols. An X30 Pro variant adds sensor and I/O options for a 59 kg standing weight.
DR01 (2024) and DR02 (2025) — the humanoid platforms
DR01, unveiled at the 2024 World Robot Conference in Beijing, was Deep Robotics' first humanoid: roughly 1.7 m tall with 12 degrees of freedom in the legs, walking at more than 1.6 m/s, and capable of climbing stairs and slopes autonomously. In October 2025 the company followed with DR02, an "all-weather" industrial humanoid — 175 cm, 75 kg, IP66-rated — explicitly designed for the same rugged jobs its quadrupeds already handle. The humanoid line remains pre-commercial, but signals Deep Robotics' intent to compete across every legged form factor.
| Model | Year | Height | Weight | Payload | Battery/Runtime | Actuators | Notable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lite3 | 2022 | ~0.45 m | ~12–13.5 kg | 2.5–4.5 kg | 1.5–2 hr / ~5 km | Electric BLDC | Research/education; ROS2 SDK; sim-to-real |
| Jueying X20 | 2021 | ~0.70 m | ~53 kg | ~20 kg | 2–4 hr / ~15 km | Electric BLDC | IP66; first-gen industrial platform |
| Jueying X30 | 2023 | ~0.47 m | ~56 kg | ~20 kg | 2.5–4 hr / ≥10 km | Electric BLDC | IP67; -20 °C to 55 °C; grid inspection flagship |
| Lynx M20 | 2024 | ~0.57 m | ~33 kg | ~15 kg | ~2 hr | Wheel-leg hybrid | Wheeled quadruped; switches modes |
| DR01 | 2024 | ~1.70 m | ~65 kg | — | — | Electric BLDC | First humanoid; 1.6+ m/s walking; 12 DoF legs |
| DR02 | 2025 | ~1.75 m | ~75 kg | — | — | Electric BLDC | "All-weather" industrial humanoid; IP66 |
Technology stack
Deep Robotics' platforms are vertically integrated combinations of custom mechatronics, sensor fusion, high-performance onboard compute, and increasingly, in-house embodied-AI models. The company frames its core capabilities as three tightly coupled disciplines: motion control, environmental perception, and human-machine interaction — the same three pillars that any credible general-purpose robotics platform must own.
Perception
The Jueying X-Series uses a multi-sensor perception stack built around 3D LiDAR (typically four LiDAR modules on X30 Pro), wide-angle cameras, and IMUs to build real-time 3D maps of substations, tunnels, and industrial yards. This sensor fusion allows fully autonomous inspection — the robot navigates unstructured outdoor environments, identifies equipment, checks gauges and thermal signatures, and returns to a docking station without human intervention. On the humanoid DR-series, perception extends to whole-body situational awareness for bipedal locomotion on stairs and slopes.
Motion control and embodied AI
Deep Robotics' locomotion controllers are built on years of reinforcement-learning research from the founders' Zhejiang University lab, using published sim-to-real pipelines and URDF/MJCF/USD simulation models. The company is now channeling its Series C capital into system-level embodied intelligence — the AI layer that maps high-level tasks (patrol this substation, inspect this transformer, respond to this alarm) into real-time actuator commands. The Lite3 line ships with open SDKs so external research teams can develop directly on the same locomotion stack.
Actuators, power, and compute
Deep Robotics uses electric brushless DC (BLDC) actuators throughout its quadruped and humanoid platforms — no hydraulics — with joint torque tuned for dynamic gaits, obstacle negotiation, and (on X30) 20 kg payloads. Onboard compute typically combines an Intel Core-class perception CPU with an NVIDIA Jetson-class module for AI inference. Each robot carries a hot-swappable lithium battery pack designed for 2–4 hours of continuous field operation across a wide temperature envelope.
Power management is a particularly demanding subsystem for industrial quadrupeds and humanoids of this class. Each joint's servo controller must deliver hundreds of watts of instantaneous torque without thermally throttling, which drives the use of high-efficiency wide-bandgap semiconductors (SiC and GaN) in the motor-driver stages and requires tightly matched precision passives on every gate-drive and current-sense channel. The onboard battery pack integrates cell balancing, thermal management, and multi-stage protection ICs — subsystems whose reliability is often the practical ceiling on how long a legged platform can run between charges, especially at -20 °C substation temperatures. MLCC capacitors and battery-management ICs are the unglamorous parts that decide whether an IP67 quadruped completes a shift or brownouts on the stairs.
Applications and commercial deployments
Deep Robotics is one of the few humanoid- and quadruped-robotics companies with genuinely commercial, at-scale deployments today. Its stated market is industrial and infrastructure operations — power grid, energy, heavy industry, and public safety — where legged mobility is a real advantage over wheeled AGVs and where human inspection is slow, expensive, or dangerous.
- State Grid Corporation of China and China Southern Power Grid. Deep Robotics' Jueying X-Series robots patrol more than 100 substations across the two Chinese grid operators, autonomously inspecting high-voltage yards, transformers, and switchgear. The company reports that its dogs have logged over one million cumulative inspection kilometers and cut operational and maintenance costs at customer substations by roughly 70% while increasing operational efficiency by more than 50%.
- Industrial inspection — Baosteel, Fluke, and utility tunnels. Deep Robotics has long-term collaborations with steelmaker Baosteel and instrumentation firm Fluke for factory and industrial inspection, and its quadrupeds patrolled underground utility corridors during the Hangzhou Asian Games.
- Emergency response and firefighting. The Jueying platform is deployed in real-world firefighting reconnaissance and disaster-response drills, where its ability to climb rubble, stairs, and slopes in smoke or debris outperforms wheeled robots.
- International deployments and research customers. Reported customers include Singapore's national power grid, Lenovo, Takenaka Corporation (Japan), and research groups at University College London and the University of Edinburgh. A 2025 partnership with Kandi Technologies is targeting North American security-robotics and smart golf-equipment markets.
The robotics supply chain — where Hybrid Electronics fits in
A modern humanoid robot is one of the most component-dense products ever built. A single Deep Robotics-class platform depends on thousands of individual electronic components: precision BLDC motor drivers, high-torque servo modules, IMUs and 6-DoF force-torque sensors, LiDAR and time-of-flight modules, GPU compute boards, battery-management ICs, wide-bandgap SiC/GaN power semiconductors, high-speed board-to-board connectors, precision resistors, and thousands of MLCC capacitors distributed across every power and signal rail.
Building that kind of hardware puts enormous pressure on the electronic-components supply chain. Prototype pilots and low-volume production runs frequently hit allocation, EOL notices, and long lead times on the exact parts they need, and R&D and field-service teams routinely have to support older platforms that use semiconductors no longer in mainstream distribution. During the current humanoid robotics and general-purpose robot AI boom, this pressure is amplified: dozens of well-funded teams are chasing the same short list of high-torque BLDC drivers, precision IMUs, GPU compute modules, and automotive-grade power semiconductors, and franchise stock on many key parts is now measured in months of lead time rather than weeks.
Hybrid Electronics has been sourcing electronic components for industrial and embedded systems since 1995. For robotics teams — humanoid, mobile, industrial, and research — we specialize in finding the parts you need when mainstream distribution can't:
Obsolete and end-of-life parts
Legacy semiconductors, sensors, connectors, and passives that are no longer in mainstream distribution — the parts that keep older platforms running during transitions to newer hardware, and the long-tail items that block a BOM from closing.
Allocated and hard-to-find active parts
High-torque BLDC motor drivers, IMUs and MEMS sensors, SiC/GaN power devices, GPU compute modules, precision resistors, and MLCC capacitors caught in allocation or long-lead times. Send us a BOM or a shortage list — we'll confirm what we can source and at what lead time.
Frequently asked questions
Who founded Deep Robotics?
Deep Robotics (Hangzhou Yunshenchu Technology) was founded on November 29, 2017 by Zhu Qiuguo and Li Chao, both PhD graduates of Zhejiang University's College of Control Science and Engineering. Zhu Qiuguo, an associate professor and PhD advisor at ZJU whose doctoral research was on bipedal humanoid robots, remains chairman and CEO. The company is headquartered in Hangzhou's Xihu District.
What is the Jueying X30?
The Jueying X30 is Deep Robotics' flagship industrial quadruped. It weighs roughly 56 kg with battery, carries a 20 kg payload, tops 4 m/s, handles slopes up to 45° and 20 cm obstacles, and is rated IP67 with a -20 °C to 55 °C operating range. It is the platform behind Deep Robotics' autonomous power-substation inspection business and has been deployed across more than 100 substations in China.
Where are Deep Robotics robots deployed commercially?
Deep Robotics' Jueying quadrupeds are deployed across more than 100 substations with State Grid Corporation of China and China Southern Power Grid, and have logged over one million cumulative inspection kilometers. Other customers include Baosteel, Fluke, Lenovo, Takenaka Corporation, and Singapore's national power grid. Robots have also been used in Asian Games underground utility corridors and in real-world firefighting and disaster-response drills.
How much has Deep Robotics raised?
Deep Robotics has raised approximately $140 million across multiple rounds. Its most recent round, closed in December 2025, was a Series C of over 500 million RMB (approximately $70 million) co-led by CMB International and China Asset Management, with strategic participation from funds affiliated with China Telecom and China Unicom. The company turned profitable in 2025 and has filed for a STAR Market IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Is Hybrid Electronics affiliated with Deep Robotics?
No. Hybrid Electronics is an independent electronic-components sourcing company. We are not a distributor, reseller, or partner of Deep Robotics. All trademarks are property of their respective owners. Hybrid supports robotics developers by sourcing obsolete, allocated, and hard-to-find semiconductors, sensors, connectors, and passives for R&D, prototype, and low-volume production builds.
Can Hybrid help with components for humanoid robotics builds?
Yes. We regularly support R&D and integrator teams with hard-to-find semiconductors, BLDC motor-driver ICs, IMUs and other MEMS sensors, connectors, SiC/GaN power devices, and precision passives for the industrial and embedded boards used in robotics platforms. Send us a BOM or a short list of shortages and we'll confirm availability and pricing.
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