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PokeBot Raises Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Pre-A Funding

PokeBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in a pre-A round led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners. The months-old company is developing household robots for tasks including clothes folding and cooking. A demonstration showed one of its robots autonomously cooking mapo tofu in nine minutes. [TechNode reporting]

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Published: 6 August 2026
Source: TechNode (CN)
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 7 August 2026

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