Maniformer

Based in Shanghai, China and established in 2026 by Maoqing Yao, Shanghai Maniformer Embodied Intelligence Technology Co. , Ltd. , trading under the name Maniformer, provides specialized data infrastructure for the embodied intelligence sector. The firm was initiated by Zhiyuan Robot (Agibot) to address the critical data needs in robot learning by building a full-link data service ecosystem.

In August 2026, Maniformer raised a venture funding led by China Telecom Group, with participation from Zhangjiang Science & Technology Venture Capital, HSG, YUANQI INNOVATION, and other investors. The company works with robotics companies and AI research institutions to provide high-quality data assets for model training. Product offerings include a unified data platform that aggregates real world robot operation data, human motion capture data, and simulation environment data to enhance the learning capabilities of embodied AI systems. The company generates revenue from subscription fees for access to its data platform and datasets.

The latest round of funding will be used to continuously break through the bottleneck of the industry's "data desert", build an embodied intelligent data platform-type supply infrastructure, expand the mass production scale of MEgo's ontology-free products, strengthen the full-stack capabilities of data collection, data governance, and closed-loop evaluation, accelerate the implementation of tens of millions of hours of physical interaction data production capacity, and reconstruct the iterative paradigm of the physical world's large-scale model.