AI Companion Hardware Startup Luobo Intelligence Raises Tens of Millions in Angel Round Led by Shangying Jinsha River

Beijing, [Insert Date] – Robopoet, an AI companion hardware startup, has announced the completion of a multi-million RMB angel round of financing. The investment was jointly led by Shanghai Film Group New Vision Fund and GSR Ventures, with participation from 01VC. This funding marks a significant milestone for the company, founded in 2024, as it seeks to disrupt the emotional companionship market for Generation Z.

Robopoet’s debut product, Fuzozo, an AI-powered Tamagotchi-like companion, was unveiled at the Barcelona Consumer Electronics Show on March 8, 2025, and officially launched in June. Fuzozo aims to provide emotional support to Z-generation users through multi-modal interaction and pet-raising gameplay.

Product Breakthrough: AI-Powered Emotional Companion for the Z Generation

Founded in 2024, Robopoet focuses on AI-powered virtual pet toys. Founder Sun Zhaozhi previously led product design at XPeng Robotics (Pengxing Intelligence). The team comprises talent from leading tech and toy companies such as ByteDance, Alibaba, Huawei, DJI, SenseTime, and Pop Mart.

Fuzozo, Robopoet’s flagship product, is designed as a plush accessory for easy portability. Utilizing AI large language model technology, it focuses on providing emotional companionship to Generation Z. Through multi-modal interaction and pet-raising gameplay, Fuzozo aims to establish long-term emotional bonds with users, alleviating feelings of loneliness and anxiety. The product also incorporates social features, allowing users to connect with others through a bump feature, facilitating rapid social interaction within their social circles.

Technical Advantages: Personality Evolution and Long-Term Memory

According to Robopoet founder Sun Zhaozhi, Generation Z has high expectations for AI emotional companionship products, but the market lacks solutions that truly meet their needs. He believes that the core capability of AI emotional companionship products is not dialogue but nurturing. Therefore, Robopoet has invested significant resources in product design and research and development to create the two core capabilities of nurturing AI toys: personality evolution and long-term memory.

Robopoet’s self-developed multi-modal emotion model, MEM (Multi-Emotion Model), cultivates the user’s intimacy with Fuzozo through daily interaction, developing Fuzozo’s diverse personality, allowing each Fuzozo to form a unique and exclusive bond with the user.

Robopoet’s other core technology, the EchoChain Bionic Memory System, gives Fuzozo the ability to remember and learn over time. It can remember the user’s identity, characteristics, preferences, events, and other information, and reflect on memories through self-learning, gradually growing into a partner that understands the user better.

Investor Perspective: Capturing the Emotional Needs of Generation Z

Gu Yuhao, General Manager of Shanghai Film Group New Vision Fund, stated: During the industry transformation period of accelerated AI hardware development, Robopoet has demonstrated extremely keen market insight, rapid product iteration and execution capabilities, accurately capturing the emotional companionship needs of Generation Z and creating AI-powered virtual pet toys. The company has solid technical accumulation in multi-modal algorithms, interaction design, and hardware engineering, and also has strong integration capabilities for supply chain, market channels, and brand marketing.

Conclusion: A Promising Future for AI-Powered Companionship

Robopoet’s successful funding round highlights the growing demand for AI-powered emotional companionship products, particularly among the Z generation. With its innovative approach to nurturing AI companions and its focus on long-term emotional bonds, Robopoet is well-positioned to lead this emerging market. The company’s technology, combined with the backing of prominent investors like Shanghai Film Group and GSR Ventures, suggests a promising future for Fuzozo and other AI companions designed to address the emotional needs of a digitally connected generation.

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