GUi-based company raises tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round funding to advance emotional human-robot interaction

The multi-modal interactive robot developed by Anywit Robotics.

Anywit Robotics, a tech firm based in the Grand Union of Innovation (GUi) in Hefei, East China's Anhui province, has closed a Pre-A funding round led by the Strategic Investment arm of ride-hailing giant Didi, with existing investor Yunxiu Capital serving as the exclusive financial advisor.

The newly raised funds will be used primarily for the standardization of its high-DOF robotic head platform and refinement of its multimodal emotional interaction engine.

Anywit Robotics is committed to developing multi-modal interactive robots endowed with vitality through embodied intelligence, building an emotional bond between humans and robots.

The company has developed a vertically integrated solution comprising a standardized robotic head platform, featuring industry-leading degrees of freedom in the face, enabling precise lip-sync, gaze direction, and expressive range — the first such system in China to achieve product-grade consistency.

It has also developed AniExpression, a proprietary algorithm for real-time, context-aware facial animation, supporting micro-expressions, eyebrow motion, and nuanced emotional states; and Animum, a multimodal emotional interaction engine that fuses voice tone, speech content, and visual cues to drive lifelike, responsive behavior.

Anywit Robotics showcased its technological achievements at international tech exhibitions.

Utilizing GUi's ecosystem, Anywit Robotics has showcased its technological achievements at international tech exhibitions like the Inclusion Conference on the Bund and InnoEX, significantly boosting its industry recognition.

The company is actively exploring product deployment potential, targeting business and government clients with interactive robots equipped with expressive head and facial components for education, marketing, and entertainment. Having initially delivered educational robots, Anywit Robotics has realized the deployment of robot teachers in primary school classrooms.

Anywit Robotics aims to enhance the commercialization of its products, with expectations to achieve large-scale production of a standardized expressive head this year.