VarBot Robotics' Hefei headquarters signed and settled, with total investment of approximately 300 million yuan

OFweek Intelligent Manufacturing, October 21 news: the X-Embodied Robot Hefei headquarters project recently signed and settled in the Hefei High-tech Zone, with a total investment of approximately 300 million yuan, focusing on applied research and development. This is another substantive advancement of cooperation between the two sides, following X-Embodied's release of its embodied intelligence ecosystem construction plan in Hefei in September 2025. Hefei High-tech Zone officials characterized this signing as a strategic upgrade implemented by the enterprise on the basis of its existing project layout in the high-tech zone. It is reported that the project is located in the Zhong'an Chuanggu Science and Technology Park, positioned for the engineering of algorithms and models for specific scenarios, delivery standardization and productization, forming an industrial closed loop of R&D—pilot testing—delivery—operations. X-Embodied Robot X-Embodied Robot was founded in Shenzhen in December 2023. Founder and CEO Wang Qian graduated from Tsinghua University and is one of the earliest scholars to introduce attention mechanisms into neural networks. The company focuses on end-to-end general embodied intelligence foundation models and robot bodies, and insists on full-stack in-house development of software and hardware. It is the only embodied intelligence company in China to have been led in separate funding rounds by four top internet companies—Xiaomi, ByteDance, Alibaba and Meituan: Meituan led the Series A, Alibaba led the Series A+, ByteDance led the Series A++, and Xiaomi Strategic Investment led the Series B. As of June 2026, the company has completed four consecutive financing rounds—Series B, B+, B++ and C—all fully closed, with cumulative financing exceeding 6 billion yuan, becoming the first embodied intelligence enterprise in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to complete all capital closings with a post-investment valuation exceeding 20 billion yuan. Its product cadence this year has likewise been intensive. In April 2026, X-Embodied released WALL-B, the world's first embodied intelligence foundation model based on a world unified model architecture, which integrates vision, language, action and physical prediction into a single neural network, shifting from the VLA's modular architecture to native multimodal fusion. On the body side, its self-developed wheeled dual-arm robot Quantum 2 has 62 degrees of freedom across its body, and its robot body has entered validation in elderly care, automobile manufacturing and logistics sorting scenarios. In addition, its logistics sorting solution achieved 1,816 items per hour with an accuracy rate exceeding 98% in a live-streamed real-world test of about one hour in August 2026. Conclusion After the signed Hefei headquarters is established, it will form a new division of labor with the Shenzhen headquarters: Shenzhen will be responsible for foundation model R&D, data factories and body definition, while Hefei will take on the "last mile" from algorithm engineering to standardized delivery, further advancing from strong model capabilities to improved delivery capabilities. Original title: Total investment of 300 million! Another robot headquarters settles in Hefei High-tech Zone!