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Westlake Robotics Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. was founded in 2021 as a spin-off from Westlake University's research in artificial intelligence and robotics, established by Professor Wang Donglin's team.
The company adheres to a full-stack, self-developed approach built on the "general-purpose brain + humanoid whole-body cerebellum + self-developed humanoid body" trinity.
Its core product is the humanoid robot "Westlake o1" (formerly "Titan o1"), with the technical core being an embodied brain model that integrates vision-language-action (VLA) models with world models, alongside a general action expert model, GAE, serving as the cerebellum.
The company completed four funding rounds within six months, totaling 500 million RMB.
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