Dexmal
Chinese embodied AI start-up founded in 2025 that develops multimodal robot models, open-source VLA tooling and open robot hardware.
Dexmal (原力灵机) was founded in March 2025 and develops software and hardware for embodied AI, according to its investors. Its products include MMLA, an end-to-end multimodal embodied model, Dexbotic, an open-source PyTorch toolbox for vision-language-action models, and DOS-W1, an open-source robot hardware platform; with Hugging Face it launched RoboChallenge, a large-scale real-robot evaluation platform. Its core team has experience deploying AI logistics robots. On 14 November 2025 NIO Capital said it had led Dexmal's Series A round. Lenovo Capital said the same day that Hongtai Fund, Lenovo Capital, Wuxi Venture Capital and Zhengjing Fund followed in that round, with existing shareholders Legend Capital, Qiming Venture Partners and Ubiquant Venture adding to their stakes. Lenovo Capital said Alibaba was the sole investor in a subsequent Series A+ round of several hundred million yuan, and that the two rounds together came to nearly RMB 1 billion.
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- Founded
- 2025
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- China
- Nov 14, 2025Series A+—
- Nov 14, 2025Series A—