Gasgoo Munich-NeoWa Robotics has closed a 50 million yuan angel funding round led by Blue Lake Capital, with participation from Butong Capital and Gongqingcheng Puyi Investment, Gasgoo has learned. Just two months ago, the company wrapped up a seed round led by Plug and Play China.
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NeoWa positions itself as an "Embodied Mobility Intelligence" brain company. Founder Professor Yang Ruigang formerly served as director of Baidu’s Autonomous Driving and Robotics Lab, led the open-source ApolloScape dataset, and was CTO at Inceptio, where he drove the mass production of Level 3 autonomous heavy trucks.
NeoWa has developed a proprietary "World Traversal Model" (WTM) that enables robots to move, navigate, and interact autonomously in complex environments—just like humans—while adhering to social norms. WTM operates without high-definition maps; it instantly understands space and plans routes upon entering unfamiliar settings. A single model adapts to various forms, including humanoid, quadruped, wheeled, and delivery robots, fully realizing NeoWa’s "one brain, multiple bodies" capability.
Underpinning this technology are NeoWa’s proprietary SimWeaver high-fidelity physics simulator and WorldWeaver data engine. The system generates physically accurate data at scale and low cost within a virtual environment to "raise" the robots, then transitions to real-world scenarios via a Real2Sim2Real approach.
To date, NeoWa has demonstrated capabilities such as map-free cross-floor navigation, stable traversal of open-grid stairs, autonomous obstacle avoidance in narrow corridors, and elevator etiquette—allowing passengers to exit before entering.
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