Maniformer

Maniformer (觅蜂科技), an embodied data service provider led by chairman and CEO Yao Maoqing, launched the Mifeng Pai (觅蜂派) crowdsourced physical AI data platform on September 23. The offering combines hardware, an app and a data engine; the company describes it as the first full-category high-quality physical AI data crowdsourcing platform. It includes the self-developed MEgo View head-mounted panoramic capture device and MEgo Gripper, with 20,000 units produced and more than one million hours of valid data collected across 22 scene categories. Maniformer also built the MEgo Engine data engine, MPR unified algorithm base and ManiEval quality-inspection system to cover capture, reconstruction, inspection, training, deployment and feedback.

Maniformer, a one-stop physical AI data service platform, has raised hundreds of millions of yuan (tens of millions of dollars) led by China Telecom. Zhangjiang Group joined, and existing investors Sequoia Capital China and Yuanqi Innovation made oversubscribed additions. Funds will scale mass production of MEgo no-body acquisition products, strengthen data-stack capabilities, and accelerate tens of millions of hours of physical interaction data. The company has worked with Ant Lingbo to supply training data for the LingBot-VLA 2.0 model.