23 Daily — According to 36kr.com, embodied intelligence company Qilinbo in Chengdu has completed a multi-million yuan angel funding round, with investors including Chengdu Fangcun Engine Technology Co., Ltd. and angel investors. The funding will focus on core technology development, team building, and market expansion to support the continuous advancement of robot brains and multi-robot collaboration systems built on the open-source HarmonyOS platform.
Qilinbo focuses on embodied intelligence and multi-robot collaboration
Founded in December 2025, Qilinbo develops embodied intelligent robots based on open-source HarmonyOS. Its core technologies include robot autonomous navigation, multi-robot collaboration, and continuous task execution. The company independently developed the “Lingyan Engine” for single-robot task understanding, planning, and autonomous execution, as well as the “Yanzhen System” for task allocation, resource coordination, and collaboration across different robot forms. This two-level edge-cloud architecture supports diverse bodies such as robotic dogs, robotic arms, and humanoid robots.
Co-founder and CEO Tang Zuolin, with a background spanning AI algorithms, embedded systems, and domestic operating systems, participated in the core development of the open-source HarmonyOS foundation and the domestic Python framework. Utilizing HarmonyOS as a base enables autonomous control and high data security through local model deployment and deep hardware-software integration.
Targeting education, research, and industrial application scenarios
Qilinbo has established stable cash flow orders in the education and research sector, focusing on desktop tracked robots and desktop robotic dogs to meet AI inclusive education and HarmonyOS-based teaching and research needs. They plan to extend adaptation to industrial-level quadruped robotic dogs and industrial robotic arms, expanding to scenarios like night patrols in campuses, oil fields, mines, and forest fire prevention that carry high risks and low human coverage.
In the example of campus patrols, multiple quadruped robots equipped with the “Lingyan Engine” can collaboratively respond to emergencies, while the cloud-based “Yanzhen System” handles demand assessment and task coordination, achieving coverage of monitoring blind spots hard to sustain by human personnel alone.
Editor's take: New opportunities in embodied intelligence and multi-robot collaboration based on open-source HarmonyOS
Qilinbo’s approach, building a robot brain with HarmonyOS as the foundation, integrates hardware and software to balance autonomous single-robot task execution and collaborative multi-device coordination, addressing the key gaps in continuous real-world task performance and multi-robot cooperation.
For entrepreneurs, Qilinbo’s model highlights the potential of leveraging open-source domestic operating systems to create controllable, secure, and scalable intelligent robot platforms. Verification of this technical path can focus on education or specific campus scenarios by deploying multiple embodied intelligent robots combined with task scheduling systems to evaluate their autonomous operation, collaboration efficiency, stability, and alignment with practical application needs.