Lingyan Technology Completes Tens of Millions of Yuan Seed Round Financing, Making Bionic Dexterous Faces for Humanoid Robots

Hangzhou Lingyan Technology Co., Ltd. has recently completed a seed round and a seed+ round of financing totaling tens of millions of yuan. Among them, the seed round was invested by Yingdong Capital and Zhejiang Torch Center, and the seed+ round was invested by Yida Capital, Plum Ventures, and Linglu Capital, with existing shareholder Yingdong Capital continuing to add investment. The funds will be mainly used for product iteration, core component R&D, algorithm platform construction, and team expansion. This new company, established only in June 2026, is doing something others rarely touch—the "face" of humanoid robots. Lingyan Technology positions itself as a company specializing in bionic dexterous faces and emotional interaction technology, with its core product being a full-stack emotional interaction solution called FaceSoul Agent, serving humanoid robots, service robots, and emotional companion devices. But this is not easy. To make a face, the first thing to solve is how it moves. Most bionic faces on the market use linkage drive, with motors driving linkages to push and pull facial components, offering short design cycles and the ability to quickly produce prototypes. But Zhao Changyi, founder and CEO of Lingyan Technology, believes that linkages have three hard flaws: high noise, large space occupation, and the quick-return characteristic of linkages causes a sudden change in speed at the end of movement, making expressions "jerk" a bit, like a machine, not like muscles. Therefore, Lingyan Technology chose cable drive: using extremely fine cables routed inside the face, imitating the arrangement of human facial muscles, pulling the skin to produce expressions. Cable drive has very little force, and the driving method is naturally closer to muscles, but the cost is complex wiring and the need for long-term bionic mechanism testing. At present, Lingyan Technology has achieved 32 degrees of freedom in the face, and it is reported that a full-cable-drive version with 46 degrees of freedom is planned for launch by the end of the year. Merely being able to move is not enough; the key is whether the expressions are right and natural. To this end, Lingyan Technology has self-developed an emotion foundation model that can autonomously gauge the amplitude according to context, distinguishing between a pursed-lip smile, a grin, and hearty laughter, with interaction latency claimed to be controlled within 10 milliseconds. This capability is split into two layers within Lingyan Technology's full-stack bionic dexterous face intelligent agent technology architecture—FaceSoul Agent: the Face layer uses bionic skin, muscle transmission, and temperature and posture perception for physical presentation, while the Soul layer carries an emotion engine, social cognition, and memory learning, imitating the human brain's perception, cognition, and amygdala emotion mechanisms. At the product level, Lingyan Technology has planned four lines: Lingshu M1 for education and research with open interfaces, Lingshu W1 for commercial services such as guidance, reception, scenic areas, and coffee ordering, the Lingyun series for family emotional companionship, and the Lingneng series directly supplied to humanoid robot OEMs as plug-and-play standardized facial modules, with mechanical and communication interfaces compatible with mainstream OEMs, so that "giving the robot a new head" is all it takes, with pricing expected to be controlled below 10,000 yuan. At present, the products have not yet been officially released, but on the B-end side they have already gained favor with Hangzhou Tourism and Commerce, a leading communications company, and multiple chain coffee brands, mainly for scenic area guidance and front desk reception. Zhao Changyi's judgment on timing is that dexterous faces will enter households on a large scale roughly next year or the year after; this year, the priority is to get scenarios running on the B-end and thoroughly refine the products. (Statement: This article is reprinted from a third-party platform. The purpose of forwarding this article is to promote information exchange, with no profit-making purpose. The views in this article do not represent the position of this site. Unverified information is for reference only and should not be used as a basis for any investment or trading decisions. If there is any unintentional infringement of media or personal intellectual property rights, please inform us by phone or letter, and this site will handle it as soon as possible.)