Company · XILECT 2 items

One-line positioning

XILECT is an embodied-AI edge computing platform company jointly founded by Chinese GPU maker MetaX and robot maker UBTECH, defining its brain-and-cerebellum-in-one SoC and compute modules around real robot workloads.

Key facts

The operating entity, Xixuan Chuangzhi Technology (Wuxi) Co., Ltd., was incorporated in Wuxi on 27 May 2026. MetaX and UBTECH each hold 35.01 percent, with Fenglong holding 4.7 percent. In November 2026 the company closed a RMB 500 million angel round at a post-money valuation of RMB 4 billion, co-led by GGV Capital and Matrix Partners China. MetaX founder Chen Weiliang serves as chairman, UBTECH founder Zhou Jian as vice chairman, and Yang Xianbo, formerly a senior vice president at H3C, as CEO.

Products & tech

The technical route uses domestic general-purpose GPGPU as the core compute unit, extending a CUDA-like development ecosystem so that mainstream AI frameworks, operators and models can be adapted on the edge, together with a toolchain covering development, simulation and benchmarking, deployment debugging and production operation. Its first self-designed chip is positioned as a brain-and-cerebellum-in-one SoC for robots, publicly benchmarked against NVIDIA Thor. The published roadmap sets out the X-500 first-generation compute module (2026, planned), the X-1000 robot control SoC (2027, planned) and the X-2000 converged platform (2028 and beyond, planned). Per its public R&D plan, development and validation platforms are planned for industry partners in 2027, with the first SoC and supporting solution in 2028.

Market position

Founded in 2026, the company is still in the chip architecture definition and R&D stage, with no public disclosure of volume production, revenue or market share. It sits in the embodied-AI edge compute segment, pairing MetaX cloud-side GPUs with UBTECH robot bodies in a cloud-edge architecture. Initial applications target industrial manufacturing and mobile inspection in semi-structured environments, with home service listed as a longer-term exploration.