X Square Robot (Zibianliang Robotics) is a Chinese embodied-AI startup founded in 2023 in Shenzhen, building end-to-end foundation models for general-purpose robots. Its flagship model family, WALL, aims to give robots broad reasoning and physical-action capabilities, and in September 2025 the company released WALL-OSS, an open-source foundation model for robotic platforms, alongside demonstrations of robots tackling home-based tasks. Co-founded by Wang Qian with CTO Wang Hao (a computational-physics PhD from Peking University), X Square positions itself as a challenger to Figure AI and Boston Dynamics by emphasizing a software-first, model-driven approach to embodied intelligence. The company has raised substantial capital across 2025-2026: a roughly $100 million round with Alibaba leading, a $140 million Series A extension with investors including ByteDance, and a $293 million Series B co-led by Xiaomi and HSG (HongShan). The funding supports mass-production of embodied-AI robots and continued development of its robot foundation models. X Square was named to the Forbes China 2026 AI Tech Enterprises Top 50.
X Square Robot
ActiveEmbodied-AI startup building robot foundation models for general robots
Total raised
$709M
3 rounds
Stage
Series B
Apr 2026
Team
51-200
since 2023
Pricing
Freemium
free plan
Founded
2023
Shenzhen, China
Agent-ready
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WALL embodied-AI foundation models
Open-source WALL-OSS model
End-to-end robot learning
General-purpose manipulation
Home and commercial task capability
Software-first robotics approach
Reasoning plus physical action
Mass-production roadmap
10/100
Early
MCP server
Public API
Webhooks
OAuth 2.0
SDKs
No public agent surfaces detected yet.
Apr 2026 Series B $276M ● Xiaomi
— Series A $140M incl. Alibaba Group +1
— Series B $293M incl. HSG (HongShan) +1
Capital network
$516M raised ·6 backers·10 network links
- Backers6
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- Extended networkfunds that co-invest alongside them
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- What is WALL-OSS?
- WALL-OSS is X Square Robot's open-source embodied-AI foundation model for robotic platforms, released in September 2025.
- Who backs X Square Robot?
- Investors include Alibaba, ByteDance, Xiaomi and HSG (HongShan).
- When was X Square founded?
- In 2023, in Shenzhen, China.
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