Embodied AI Startup Nuwa Robotics Raises RMB 50 Million Angel Round Led by Blue Lake Capital

Nuwa Robotics, an embodied intelligence startup, has raised an RMB 50 million (about $7 million) angel round led by Blue Lake Capital, with participation from Butong Capital and Gongqingcheng Puyi Investment, according to 36Kr. The company said it previously closed a seed round led by Plug and Play China Fund about two months earlier.

Founded in February 2026, Nuwa is developing what it calls an “Embodied Mobility Intelligence” approach and a self-developed “World Travelers Model (WTM)” aimed at enabling robots to move, navigate, interact and complete tasks in complex human environments. The company said the capability is designed to work across multiple mobile robot platforms, including quadruped robots, AGVs and unmanned delivery vehicles.

Nuwa said its in-house high-fidelity physics simulation engine, SimWeaver, generates simulations three times faster than NVIDIA Isaac Sim, reduces sim-to-real transfer error by 20%, and achieved a 91% zero-shot success rate on multiple deformable-object manipulation tasks. It also said its locomotion model can stably traverse scenarios such as 55-degree hollow stairs, and it is developing mapless or light-map navigation using sources such as community floor plans and general navigation maps.