On18June2025, Shanghai KUSA Technology Limited (" KUSA Technology "), a provider of urban service robots, announced the completion of tens of millions of yuanin Pre-Around financing.This round of financing wasledbyJinshui Lake Venture Capital and followed by Rongxi Venture Capital and Wuxi Yuanqi Investment. The funds will be used for upgrading and iterating existing unmanned cleaning robots, research and development of new-generation sanitation robots, as well as market expansion, to continue to promote the large-scale application of robots. KUSA Technology has received a seed round of investment from Voltaic Technology and an angel round of investment from Sidetrack Ventures.
Founded inJune2023, KUSA Technologycompleted thedevelopment ofits first unmanned cleaning robot, KUSA Star Hyun® S1,in the fourth quarter of2023and put it into operation on city roads, followed by the launch of its second unmanned cleaning robot, KUSA Star Hyun®,in the following year.As the fastest company in the industry in terms of product development and commercialisation, the operational efficiency of its products is up totwotimes theindustry average, and has alreadybeen deployedinmore than20regionsin provinces and cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan, Hubei and Fujian.
The core of KUSA Technology's technology lies in its complete robotic architecture, which integratesa multi-modal perception system withAIvision as the core. Its self-developed unmanned cleaning robots are based on KUSA's self-developed closed operating system, which is able to fully understand the environment and accurately carry out cleaning tasks in open-road scenarios, achieving centimetre-level edge-to-edge work accuracy. Based on the automotive-grade product development process and supply chain system, the products are highly stable and reliable. KUSA Technology's Intelligent Cloud Control Platform is equipped with dynamic task scheduling capability and integrated withMulti-Agentdata closed-loop system. The platform acts as a "command centre", simulating the logic of human teamwork with the help of large model technology, and coordinates and manages the task execution, path planning and resource allocation of robot clusters, so as to achieve highly efficient collaborative operations.Actual operation data shows that the innovative model of combining cloud platform and robots can significantly reduceoperation costsby 50%compared with the traditional model.
Since its inception, KUSA Technology has focused on the sanitation sector as its first commercialisation direction, and is committed to providing sanitation robotic products that operate in open scenarios and unmanned operation solutions that cover the entire lifecycle of the equipment.KUSA Technology's core team members come from Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Peking University, Zhejiang University and other top universities, and have a deep accumulation in the fields of robotics, automated driving, chip, vehicle, information technology and environmental protection. Co-founder andCEOYang Xi has the technical and operational management experience of many Fortune 500 companies, co-founder andCTODr Tao Sheng served as the director of the laboratory of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications Institute of Science, Baidu driverless senior technical chief and completed the first generation of mass productionrobotaxitechnology research and development, with a wealth of experience in the field of automated driving, and has won a number of national and provincial and ministerial level technology awards. At present, the company is vigorously promoting product iteration and market expansion, this year plans to launch new sanitation robot products, covering more sanitation scenes.
Zeng Runlai, Investment Director of Jinshui Lake Venture Capital, said, "As the lead investor of this round, we are firmly optimistic about KUSA Technology's strategic value of reshaping the bottom layer of urban services- its "light map+vision" fusion architecture to verify the centimetre level in the open scene. KUSA Technology hasverifiedits centimetre-level cleaning technology in open scenarios with its "light map + vision" fusion architecture, achievedmass production of L4-level robots anddeployment in20citiesnationwidein less than two years, and reduced the operating costs of sanitation operations bymore than40%. We predict that the synergistic evolution of the team's technological closure and commercialisation model will accelerate unmanned sanitation to become a core service node of the new infrastructure for smart cities and provide a scalable digital infrastructure for urban management.
Zhang Zhe, Senior Investment Manager of Rongxi Venture Capital, said:At this stage, sanitation is still a manpower-intensive industry, and the introduction of driverless sanitation robots effectively reduces the labour intensity of workers, improves operational safety and accuracy, and helps to improve the urban environment. The driverless sanitation robots developed by KUSA have successfully landed in many cities across the country, fully verifying the team's technical strength and commercialisation capabilities. We continue to be optimistic about the company's investment in product line expansion and technological innovation.
The investment team of Wuxi Yuanqi Investment, a subsidiary of Huishan State Control, said:national and local governments have increased their support for driverless technology in recent years, and the commercialisation of unmanned sanitation has been accelerating, gradually entering a period of large-scale application. As a rising star in the unmanned sanitation industry, KUSA Technology has demonstrated significant advantages in the identification of sanitation operating environment and operating efficiency. The unmanned robots developed by KUSA Technology not only have the functions of image collection and analysis, but also can monitor the urban sanitation situation in real time, which can provide decision-making support for city managers and help realise the fine management of urban sanitation. Huishan State Control has successfully introduced high-end unmanned operation robots with visual recognition as the core technology into Wuxi Huishan District, which helps to promote the rapid development of Wuxi Huishan District in the field of unmanned operation, and also helps to improve the efficiency and quality of Huishan State Control in the field of sanitation services.
