LimX Dynamics 逐际动力
Shenzhen-based humanoid robotics company with global patent leadership and thousands of orders, over half international.
At a glance
Europe status
LimX Dynamics: 1 — Declared interest
Rated only on confirmed evidence listed below; status 2026-10-26.
Evidence for the Europe status
Only confirmed, sourced steps count. Announcements without follow-through are listed as declared interest at most.
- Declared interest in Europe as a target market.
LimX names Europe a target market while calling it ‘large but fragmented’ — an accurate diagnosis, and a window: the company has no confirmed European base yet, which means partnerships, distribution and standards engagement are still open.
LimX Dynamics: Four Years Old, Ahead of Figure AI - European investors participated in funding.
LimX’s July 2026 pre-IPO round included European capital — Germany’s Redstone VC among them. European money is already buying into China’s humanoid rise, even as European industry debates whether to engage.
LimX Dynamics: Four Years Old, Ahead of Figure AI
What we know
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- Founder Will Zhang left an associate professorship at Southern University of Science and Technology to start LimX.
Founder Will Zhang (Zhang Wei) left an associate professorship at Shenzhen’s Southern University of Science and Technology to start LimX, bringing a Purdue PhD and years of legged-locomotion research with him.
LimX Dynamics: Four Years Old, Ahead of Figure AI - Zhang Li, former COO of WeRide, joined as co-founder and COO in late 2023.
In late 2023, Zhang Li — former COO of autonomous-driving firm WeRide — joined as co-founder and COO to build the commercial and international operation.
LimX Dynamics: Four Years Old, Ahead of Figure AI - LimX reports thousands of orders across its product lines, with more than half coming from international markets.company claim
barely four years in, LimX reports thousands of orders across its product lines, with more than half coming from international markets.
LimX Dynamics: Four Years Old, Ahead of Figure AI - LimX’s line-up includes full-size humanoids Oli and Luna, plus the TRON research platforms and COSA operating system.
LimX’s line-up spans the full-size humanoids Oli (165 cm, 31 active degrees of freedom, quick-swap battery, modular end-effectors) and Luna , an interactive humanoid launched in May 2026, plus the TRON research platforms — including TRON 2, whose limbs can reconfigure between arms and legs. Tying it together is COSA , an agentic operating system for autonomous task execution across platforms.
LimX Dynamics: Four Years Old, Ahead of Figure AI - LimX raised ~$400 million in 2026, including a ~$200M Series B in February and a ~$200M pre-IPO round in July.
~$400 million raised in six months : a ~$200M Series B in February 2026 (JD.com, CoStone, Oriental Fortune; existing backers include Alibaba — its first humanoid investment — SAIC’s Shangqi Capital and NIO Capital) and a ~$200M pre-IPO round in July 2026 (IDG Capital, with European investors GGG Group and Germany’s Redstone VC)
LimX Dynamics: Four Years Old, Ahead of Figure AI
Key number
No. 3 worldwide
LexisNexis’ humanoid patent ranking (July 2026)
Source: our reporting — “No. 3 worldwide in LexisNexis’ humanoid patent ranking (July 2026) — ahead of Figure AI”
Products and models
Products: Oli, Luna, TRON, TRON 2, COSA
Models: Oli, Luna, TRON 2
European partners: Redstone VC
Europe entry steps
All steps →| Date | Chinese company | Step | As announced | With | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07 | LimX Dynamics | Investment | Redstone VC invested in LimX Dynamics pre-IPO round. | Redstone VC | source |
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LimX Dynamics: Four Years Old, Ahead of Figure AI