{"id":1030971,"date":"2026-08-25T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030971"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:47:30","slug":"xpengs-robotics-unit-valued-at-over-6-3-billion-after-record-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/25\/xpengs-robotics-unit-valued-at-over-6-3-billion-after-record-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Xpeng&#8217;s robotics unit valued at over $6.3 billion after record funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese automaker Xpeng said on Monday its robotics unit had raised more than $900 million in its first funding round, setting a new record for a single private financing in China&#8217;s embodied AI sector. <\/p>\n<p>The funding round, led by IDG Capital and backed by strategic investors \u200cTencent and \u2060Alibaba, \u2060values the robotics business at more than $6.3 billion, Xpeng said in a \u200bstatement. <\/p>\n<p>Gaorong Ventures, an early investor in autonomous driving company Momenta and humanoid robot startup AgiBot, also participated in the funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese automaker Xpeng said on Monday its robotics unit had raised more than $900 million in its first funding round, setting a new record for a single private financing in China&#8217;s embodied AI sector. The funding round, led by IDG Capital and backed by strategic investors \u200cTencent and \u2060Alibaba, \u2060values the robotics business at more than $6.3 billion, Xpeng said in a \u200bstatement. Gaorong Ventures, an early investor in autonomous driving company Momenta and humanoid robot startup AgiBot, also participated in the funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030973,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030971\/revisions\/1030973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}