A JD-related fund leads KNOWIN’s Angel+++ round
Shenzhen Nuoyin Intelligent Co., Ltd., the Shenzhen startup behind the KNOWIN brand, said on September 29 that it had completed an Angel+++ financing round worth several hundred million yuan. Cailianpress reported that a JD-related fund led the round, while Zhengxinggu Capital, Nanshan Strategic Emerging Investment, and Walden Investment joined as follow-on investors. The reports did not identify formal legal names for the fund vehicles, and no precise renminbi figure was disclosed.
The announcement identifies a narrowly defined home-robot program and lays out the intended uses of the new capital. According to the company’s stated plans carried by Cailianpress, the money is intended to expand training data, improve the GLOW model’s ability to generalize across tasks, objects, and home environments, deepen robot-body research and development, and support engineering verification and mass-production preparation for KNOWIN-X1. It also said the round would help recruit high-end embodied-AI talent.
36Kr also reported the financing and identified Li Yinchuan as Nuoyin Intelligent’s founder. Before establishing the company, Li led generative-large-model work at Huawei’s Noah’s Ark Lab, according to 36Kr. The same coverage describes KNOWIN-X1 as the company’s first consumer home robot and says the products remain some distance from large-scale deployment.
The Angel+++ label comes with limited disclosure in the reports. KNOWIN announced the completion and the broad value range, but Cailianpress and 36Kr did not publish an exact cash amount. The available reports also name the lead only as a JD-related fund. Those details establish the reported scope of the transaction without identifying a particular JD-affiliated vehicle.
Cailianpress, 36Kr, and Securities Times have reported that Nuoyin Intelligent has completed five financing rounds since it was established in August 2025, with cumulative disclosed financing exceeding RMB 1 billion. They also reported that the previous RMB 500 million round was announced on August 10, 2026. This latest financing therefore adds to a sequence of reported rounds while leaving the Angel+++ total itself at several hundred million yuan.
KNOWIN-X1 and GLOW target home environments
KNOWIN’s official company material says Nuoyin Intelligent focuses on consumer household settings and is developing an embodied-intelligence system for home environments. Its funding announcement centers on a product and model that the company says it will advance through engineering verification.
On its product page, KNOWIN describes KNOWIN-X1 as a foldable dual-arm embodied robot for indoor and household tasks. The company says the machine combines an unfolded and folded design, can fold to a height of no more than 40 centimeters, and uses a wheeled base. Its listed configuration includes two seven-degree-of-freedom arms and a stated dual-arm payload of 6 kilograms. The product page presents these details as company specifications.
The robot is designed around GLOW, short for Generative Learning of World, which the company calls its self-developed generative embodied-model system. Nuoyin says GLOW is intended to help the system generalize across household tasks, objects, and settings. The company’s use-of-proceeds statement lists more training data, model improvement, robot-body research and development, engineering verification, manufacturing preparation, and recruitment among the Angel+++ round’s planned uses.
That emphasis on training data is material because the company has specified expansion of data as one of the round’s planned uses. Its other specified technical priorities are further robot-body research and development, KNOWIN-X1 engineering verification, and preparations for mass production. No audited performance information, commercial shipment information, revenue, or independent product-reliability data was provided in the materials reviewed for this financing story.
For historical context, EastFrontier has reported on China’s AI home-robot experience center and embodied-AI funding momentum. Those archive stories are separate from KNOWIN’s disclosed round and do not provide evidence for the company’s product or funding claims.
The official pages provide a product description, dimensions, arm configuration, payload claim, and a model name. The financing reporting describes an early company working toward a consumer home robot, while 36Kr says its products remain some distance from large-scale deployment. The announced capital is intended for the listed data, model, engineering, manufacturing-preparation, and hiring work.
The company sets a Q1 2027 product timetable
Cailianpress reported that KNOWIN plans for KNOWIN-X1 to enter a launch and mass-production phase in the first quarter of 2027. The product timetable is a company plan for a future phase. The company lists data expansion, model development, engineering verification, manufacturing preparation, and recruitment as planned uses of the Angel+++ proceeds.
KNOWIN’s disclosed spending priorities are specific to its household-robot agenda: GLOW’s household generalization, KNOWIN-X1’s engineering work, and high-end talent. Its official description of the company’s market focus is consumer household settings.
Its folded form, wheeled base, dual seven-degree-of-freedom arms, and stated 6-kilogram dual-arm payload describe the hardware configuration KNOWIN is developing for indoor work. GLOW is the model system the company says is intended to support broader task, object, and home-environment generalization.
The company was established in August 2025, according to its official company page, and its reported funding history now includes five rounds. The latest announcement provides a disclosed range, a JD-related lead, and planned uses; it does not identify an exact investment amount or a named lead fund vehicle. Those details focus attention on the next product milestone and the company’s stated spending priorities.
KNOWIN’s reported timetable identifies the first quarter of 2027 for a planned KNOWIN-X1 launch-and-mass-production phase. The company has tied the Angel+++ proceeds to data, GLOW, engineering, manufacturing preparation, and hiring ahead of that stated phase.