ManuPrax Robotics raises nearly $10M in two rounds for dexterous robot hands
ManuPrax Robotics (机本智能), a Beijing dexterous-hand startup registered in September 2026, has closed two back-to-back funding rounds totaling nearly $10 million, Chinese outlets ChinaVenture and Zhitong Caijing report. Alphaist Partners and Yaotu Capital each led one round, with angel investor 接力天使 (Relay Angels) and the controlling owner of an unnamed components maker joining.
The company is building combined hardware and software for dexterous robot hands, putting manipulation skill in what it calls the "cerebellum" layer, with action models trained by reinforcement learning. CEO Li Puhao studied automation at Tsinghua University; CTO Chen Zeyuan holds a master's from Peking University. Zhitong Caijing says it is an officially supported startup of the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence.
Why it matters
ChinaBizInsider notes that two rounds within about two months of registration is fast even for China's embodied AI sector, as the wider humanoid buildout faces commercialization pressure.
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