# Acorn Robot

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/acorn-robot

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Beijing, China
- Total disclosed funding: $15M
- Latest round: Angel (Aug 10, 2026)
- Investors on record: 4

## About

Based in Beijing, China and founded in 2024, Beijing Acorn Robot Technology Co., Ltd., trading as Acorn Robot, is a company engaged in the research and application of robot tactile interaction perception and autonomous intelligent operation technologies. The company's core team consists of PhDs in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University and fellow in Neuroscience from Harvard University. In August 2026, it closed an Angel funding round from China Merchants Venture Investment Management, NIO Capital, and Innoangel Fund.

Acorn Robot focuses on the development of interaction technologies, enabling robots to achieve enhanced touch perception, environmental sensing, and adaptive manipulation capabilities. The company has developed two core models, Natus and Magis, to allow the robot to first acquire operational instincts, and then autonomously develop operational intelligence through interaction with the physical world. Natus is an edge-side autonomous decision-making model, which endows the robot with three instincts: orientation, exploration, and interaction without any training data; while Magis is a general operational skill model which leverages data with precise tactile semantics generated by Natus in real-world interactions to quickly train robots.

The company generates revenue primarily through developing robot tactile interaction perception and autonomous intelligent operation models.

The company will use the Angel funding to accelerate the iteration of the Natus model and invest in product development, brand building, and the establishment of a commercialization team. In the future, it will continue to cultivate the trillion-dollar industrial flexible manufacturing sector, relying on embodied instinct technology to continuously lower the threshold for the implementation of flexible automation, and become a core game-changer in breaking through data involution and realizing real productivity in the industry.

## Funding rounds

- Angel, Aug 10, 2026 — NIO Capital, China Merchants Venture Investment Management, Innoangel Fund
- Seed, Mar 22, 2026, $15M — Puhua Capital

## Investors

- Puhua Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/puhua-capital) — Seed
- NIO Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/nio-capital) — Angel
- China Merchants Venture Investment Management (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/china-merchants-venture-investment-management) — Angel
- Innoangel Fund (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/innoangel-fund) — Angel