Recently, the embodied intelligence startup BridgeDP (Shenzhen) Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "BridgeDP" or "BridgeDP") announced that it has completed tens of millions of RMB in angel round financing, co-led by Zhengxuan Investment and Fosun Chuangfu. Easy Capital served as the sole financial advisor to BridgeDP in this transaction.

BridgeDP is a market-leading developer of general-purpose robot "cerebellum", receiving seed round investment from the startup incubator established by Dr. Lu Qi at the end of 2023. This angel round financing will be used to accelerate product technology research and commercial expansion, helping the company to continue expanding its leading edge and leading the global development of the embodied cerebellum industry.

In the booming field of embodied intelligence in 2024, the BridgeDP team quickly gained market validation, securing a leading position, helping multiple humanoid robot companies complete the development of reinforcement learning motion control demos from 0 to 1; At the World Robot Conference (WRC) in August 2024, out of more than 20 humanoid robot manufacturers, 11 purchased BridgeDP's motion control solutions.

BridgeDP's mission is to enhance and popularize the motion capabilities of legged robots. Today's motion control algorithm development remains at a handcrafted stage, with a tedious and complex development process where each motion takes a significant amount of time to generate. BridgeDP aims to create a product that accelerates this process, especially the sim2real gap, reducing the time to develop new motions from weeks to just hours, making editing movements on future humanoid robots as easy and user-friendly as editing text with Microsoft Word.

// BridgeDP Founder and CEO Shang Yangxing stated:

We believe there is a vast space for in-depth development in the field of legged motion control. There remains a significant gap from human motion control capabilities, particularly in learning new movements and adaptive control. We want to make this general and easy to use so that we can activate the developers in the entire market, allowing everyone to fully utilize the motion capabilities of legged robots to develop a wide range of use scenarios.

// Fosun Chuangfu Senior Investment Director Ye Lijuan stated:

On the road to general-purpose humanoids, we prefer teams with both cutting-edge academic exploration and engineering implementation capabilities. In the emergence of body and brain manufacturers, BridgeDP has a clear and long-term positioning—robotic cerebellum, exporting core motion control capabilities to customers. Locomotion is the foundation for legged robots to release their brain intelligence for real-world tasks, and stable and flexible movement is just the first step in motion control. We believe that BridgeDP, having rapidly broken through locomotion, also has the ability to extend to manipulation and then to WBC (Whole Body Control), and with ecosystem partners, strives for cross-embodiment realization. The road is long and challenging, but they are young, and we have patience.