Intro
RoboParty is a Shanghai robotics company that develops open-source humanoid robots for researchers, educators and individual developers. Its legal entity is Shanghai RoboParty Technology Co., Ltd. (上海萝博派对科技有限公司), which the company states was founded on 21 February 2025. Its founder and chief executive, Yi Huang (黄一), was born in 2004 and studied at Harbin Institute of Technology, according to 36Kr and Chinese financial press.
RoboParty publishes hardware designs and software for its robots on GitHub. ROBOTO Origin (RPO), a do-it-yourself bipedal humanoid that can be built from off-the-shelf parts, was fully open-sourced in January 2026 under the GNU General Public License v3. The ROBOTO 01 (RP1) humanoid was unveiled at the IROS 2026 robotics conference in Pittsburgh on 28 September 2026; RoboParty states its joints deliver up to 160 N·m peak torque and that it takes interchangeable head modules.
The company also offers the RP Hand dexterous hand and the ROMOMO joint module, and runs RoboParty Lab, which publishes research software including the Party OS development platform. It states that more than 5,000 developers use its platforms.
RoboParty is privately held and venture-backed. It announced a USD 20 million angel round in March 2026, co-led by SenseTime Guoxiang Capital and Matrix Partners China; an angel+ round of tens of millions of US dollars led by Shunwei Capital with Xiaomi's strategic investment arm in May 2026; and angel++ and pre-A rounds totalling nearly RMB 500 million in July 2026, in which existing shareholders added to their stakes and CATL was the sole pre-A investor. Lighthouse Capital (光源资本) acted as incubator and financial adviser for these rounds. Headcount has not been disclosed.
Robots
- ROBOTO 01 (RP1): full-stack open-source humanoid unveiled at IROS 2026, with interchangeable head modules and joints of up to 160 N·m peak torque.
- ROBOTO Origin (RPO): do-it-yourself open-source bipedal humanoid with hardware, training and deployment code published under GPLv3.
Specialism
- Open-source humanoid platforms: robot designs, firmware and control code published on GitHub for others to build and modify.
- Research and education: robots aimed at university labs, educators and maker communities.
- Locomotion and motion control: reinforcement learning and motion tracking frameworks for humanoid walking, running and fall recovery.
- Robot components: the RP Hand dexterous hand and the ROMOMO joint module.
Business Viability
- Ownership: Shanghai RoboParty Technology Co., Ltd., founded 21 February 2025 and based in Pudong New Area, Shanghai; privately held and venture-backed, with founder Yi Huang as chief executive.
- Funding: USD 20 million angel round co-led by SenseTime Guoxiang Capital and Matrix Partners China (March 2026, per 36Kr); angel+ round of tens of millions of US dollars led by Shunwei Capital, with Xiaomi's strategic investment arm (May 2026); angel++ and pre-A rounds totalling nearly RMB 500 million (July 2026), with CATL the sole pre-A investor.
- Deliveries: 36Kr reported in May 2026 that the first several hundred units of its first product were being delivered.
- Community: the company states more than 5,000 developers use its platforms; the ROBOTO Origin repository had about 2,200 stars and 290 forks on GitHub in October 2026.
- Recognition: its website lists a top 3 place in the ICRA 2026 AGIBOT World Challenge (Reasoning to Action track).
- Open questions: headcount and revenue have not been disclosed.
