China's ROBOTERA Raises Over $200 Million Led by SF Group as Humanoid Maker Scales Logistics Deployments
Two months after a RMB 1 billion round, ROBOTERA raised over $200 million to scale humanoid deployments across 10-plus logistics centers.
Overview
Chinese humanoid-robot developer ROBOTERA has raised over USD 200 million in a new financing round led by SF Group, according to a PR Newswire release issued on May 8, 2026. The raise comes barely two months after the company closed a RMB 1 billion strategic round in March, underscoring how quickly capital is flowing into Chinese firms that can put humanoid robots to work in real commercial settings rather than on demo stages.
What We Know
The new round was led by SF Group and drew a broad mix of financial and industrial backers, PR Newswire reported. Financial investors named in the release include CDH Venture and Growth Capital, HSG, IDG Capital, Hillhouse Investment, Gaocheng Capital and CICC Capital. Industrial investors include SF Group, Alibaba, Geely Capital, BAIC, Dongfeng Asset Investment, Lenovo, Haier, Golden Resources Group, Singtel Innov8, China Unicom-affiliated funds, Woori Venture Partners, ICBC Capital, KENGIC and a leading South Korean technology company.
The presence of SF Group, the parent of one of China’s largest logistics operators, is more than financial. According to PR Newswire, ROBOTERA has deployments across more than ten logistics centers in collaboration with China Post and SF Group, where its M7 humanoid robot performs small parcel induction and sorting in a logistics environment.
The company frames the round as validation of commercial traction. ROBOTERA says it has achieved the first product-market fit in the embodied intelligence sector, per PR Newswire. In the second quarter of 2026 the company initiated thousand-unit deliveries, with growth exceeding 300 percent. ROBOTERA also says over 95 percent of its core components are developed internally, spanning actuation systems and humanoid platforms, and that its hardware has been adopted by global technology companies and research institutions including Boston Dynamics, NVIDIA and Apple.
Founded in 2023, the Beijing-based company is building what it calls “general-purpose robots” and operates three core product lines: bipedal humanoid robots, wheeled service robots, and dexterous hands, according to The Robot Report. The company is led by founder Dr. Jianyu Chen. In December 2025, ROBOTERA also signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, or UNIDO, to advance embodied intelligence for manufacturing, logistics and commercial services, The Robot Report noted.
What We Don’t Know
The PR Newswire release does not disclose a post-money valuation for the new round, nor the precise total raised beyond “over USD 200 million.” It also does not break out how many of the thousand-unit deliveries went to logistics customers versus other sectors, or what share of revenue the deployments represent. The release states the company plans to expand deployments beyond logistics into automotive manufacturing, electronics and service sectors, but does not give timelines or unit targets for those markets.
Analysis
ROBOTERA’s raise fits a pattern visible across China’s humanoid sector: investors are increasingly rewarding companies that can point to paying deployments rather than benchmark demos. The lead role taken by SF Group, a logistics conglomerate that is also a customer, signals a strategic bet in which the buyer of the robots is also funding their development — a vertical integration that gives ROBOTERA a captive proving ground in parcel sorting. Whether the company’s claimed product-market fit in logistics translates to the automotive, electronics and service markets it is targeting will be the more demanding test, and one the funding round itself does not settle.