A Company Building a “Training Ground” for Robots Raised $1 Billion: Lightwheel Intelligence Says 80% of Global Top Robotics Teams Use Its Simulation Data

According to 1M AI News monitoring, Embodied Data and Simulation Infrastructure company Luminary Intelligence has completed A++ and A+++ rounds of financing totaling 1 billion RMB. Investors include New Hope Group, Dingbang Investment (Sanan Optoelectronics Chairman Family Office), Aux Group, Dingshi Asset Management, and other industry players, as well as CICC Capital, State Development & Investment Corporation, Daohe Long-Term Investment, and Fresh Capital. The company claims to have achieved unicorn status after this round of financing. In November 2025, Luminary Intelligence had previously completed multi-billion RMB Series A and A+ rounds, with investment from Rich Pattern from the East, 37Games, Amber Capital, and Nine Panels Capital.

Luminary Intelligence was founded in 2023, with founder and CEO Dr. Xie Chen having previously served as Head of Autonomous Driving Simulation at Nvidia, Cruise, and NIO. The company does not make robots but provides simulation data and evaluation infrastructure needed for robot manufacturers' training. The core product system is divided into three layers: the World layer builds a physically plausible simulation environment (in-house solver supports multiple physical fields such as rigid body, deformable body, fluid), the Behavior layer generates training data at scale through simulation synthesis and human behavior videos, and the Eval layer provides an industrial-grade simulation evaluation platform, RoboFinals.

According to the company, over 80% of the simulation assets and synthetic data used by major international embodied AI teams come from Luminary Intelligence, with clients including Nvidia, Google DeepMind, Figure AI, 1X Technologies, ByteDance, Alibaba, Intellifusion, GalaxGen, Toyota, Bosch, BYD, Geely, and others. Human behavior data collection network covers more than 7 countries and over 2500 environments, accumulating over 1 million hours of delivery. The company claims to have achieved a tenfold revenue growth in the full year of 2025 and expects first-quarter revenue in 2026 to exceed the full year of 2025.