After securing 1 billion in financing, Songyan Power is set to penetrate more scenarios.
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Author | Huang Yu
The Spring Festival holiday of the Year of the Horse in 2026 had just ended when the humanoid robot sector couldn't wait to throw a major "shock bomb" into the public eye.
For entrepreneurs at the forefront of embodied intelligence, the race for capital seemed even more urgent than the lucky start-of-work red envelopes after the holiday. On March 2, two out of the four humanoid robot companies that appeared on the Spring Festival Gala—the companies Galaxy General and Songyan Power—both announced new rounds of funding.
Among them, Songyan Power, which broke out with its “acting duel” with Cai Ming in the gala skit, completed a Series B round, bringing total funding to nearly 1 billion yuan—much less than Galaxy General’s 2.5 billion yuan new round.
According to reports, this round for Songyan Power was led by Ningde Times’ venture arm, Chendao Capital, with co-investment from Guoke Investment, Jingguosheng Fund, Jiuhen Ventures, and other notable institutions. To date, Songyan Power has completed nine funding rounds and has reformed its share structure.
Songyan Power stated that this round of investment not only provides funds to deepen their business ecosystem and build full industry-chain collaboration, but also enables ongoing investment in technological innovation and accelerated market-scale rollout for consumer applications.
If in past years the robotics industry mainly “flexed its muscles” in laboratories, then this 2026 “capital feast” at the start of the year aims to finally tear away the last “sci-fi filter” from embodied intelligence.
As the only company in the industry with simultaneous development of both biped and bionic product lines, the youthful Songyan Power team—average age under 30—are trying to prove one thing: robots must not only “look human,” but also be “mass produced,” and affordably enough that ordinary people can buy them.
According to Wallstreetcn reports, Songyan Power plans to soon bring robots into schools, science museums, and communities, letting more consumers directly experience the value of robots through scenario-based demonstration applications.
In Songyan Power's view, affordable product pricing will activate huge real-life scenarios in homes and education; and scaling up in these areas will in turn push for supply chain efficiency and ongoing cost optimization, creating a virtuous cycle of “scenario expansion—capacity growth—cost reduction,” ultimately allowing both market demand and production capacity to be unleashed, and paving the way for the humanoid robot industry to enter a stage of universal, large-scale development.
In this so-called “key year for humanoid robot commercialization” in 2026, the logic of capital has shifted from “listening to stories and watching demos” to a comprehensive emphasis on “technological moats, mass production capability, and ability to generate profits.” No one cares if your robot can do backflips anymore—they want to know: can it make it into a key client’s annual budget plan?
In the industry’s eyes, Songyan Power’s new financing looks more like a high-stakes bet on “mass production capacity.”
An embodied intelligence investor told Wallstreetcn that competition in humanoid robots has shifted from R&D to mass production and industrialization; investors now value a company’s mass production ability and commercialization more than ever.
Songyan Power’s founder Jiang Zheyuan summarizes Songyan Power’s 2026 strategy in two words: penetration and expansion.
“Penetration” means focusing on mature markets such as universities and research institutes, grabbing share in red oceans. “Expansion” targets the undefined “no-man’s lands”—Jiang looks toward the massive numbers of county-level secondary schools, vocational colleges, regular universities, and the consumer market.
In Jiang’s ledger, humanoid robots are still far from entering every household to help with chores—their general capabilities and data are still lacking. But they can provide emotional value, teach kids to code, and chat with the elderly. Since the “almighty nanny” vision is still far off, the goal for now is to be “an affordable, tangible tech companion.”
This commercially closed loop of “saving the nation by a detour” is essentially using C-end (consumer) market expansion to drive supply chain cost optimization in reverse.
However, the current embarrassment is that the hardware iteration speed of robots now far exceeds that of their “brains.” Whether entering factories or homes, the real bottleneck is lack of high-quality, large-scale, diverse data.
As the saying in tech circles goes: “When the tide goes out, you’ll see who’s been swimming naked.” Funds are frantically concentrating into a few leading firms, while companies that cannot deliver commercially or prove self-sustaining abilities are at risk of being eliminated. For Songyan Power, this 1 billion yuan funding is not just “ammunition”—it’s also a “ticket” to the future.
This tech carnival that began with the Spring Festival Gala will ultimately return to the clicks of keyboards in labs and the roaring of machines in factories.
Whether Songyan Power can break through in 2026 and hold its early lead in consumer scenarios depends not only on how much funding it gets, but even more so on how quickly its 9,998-yuan “Xiao Bumi” robot can truly enter the living rooms of thousands of households.
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