Leju Robotics
Leju is a Shenzhen humanoid robot maker founded in 2016 by a Harbin Institute of Technology team. It sells the full-size Kuavo series (biped and wheeled), the mid-size Roban and the small Aelos education humanoids, plus Cube and Pando kids' programming products and the Fluvo medical product. Kuavo made up 69.50% of 2025 revenue of 258 million yuan, from 577 units sold. Its main buyers are universities and research institutes, commercial venues and data-collection centres, with factory pilots at FAW Hongqi, BAIC Off-Road and NIO. The company works with Huawei: Kuavo runs on an OpenHarmony-based OS, uses the Pangu embodied-AI model, and Leju is a partner of Huawei's Shenzhen embodied-AI centre. Its ChiNext IPO application was accepted in May 2026 and is still under review.
7 humanoid models · 6 deployments on file · researched 2026-11-08
- Headquarters
- Shenzhen, China
- Founded
- 2016
- Ownership
- Private
- Website
- lejurobot.com/en
- Focus
- research, education, industrial, logistics, retail, home
- Leadership
- Leng Xiaokun (冷晓琨) Founder and Chairman ↗
Chang Lin (常琳) President (co-founder; called CEO in 36Kr) ↗
An Ziwei (安子威) COO and Board Secretary (co-founder) ↗ - Revenue
- CNY 258,000,000 (2025, company total (Kuavo series 178 million yuan, 69.50%)) ↗
- Last round
- Pre-IPO · 2025-10 · $200M
- Investors
- Tencent (Linzhi Lixin, 7.32%), Guangdong Dongfang Precision (6.32%), Shenzhen Capital Group (3.64%), Moutai Jingshi Fund (1.31%), SAIC Jingshi (1.31%), Tuopu Group, Greenwoods Asset Management, CITIC Goldstone, Shenzhen Investment Holdings Capital, Shenzhen Longhua Capital, Qianhai Infrastructure Investment, Shijingshan Industrial Fund, China Securities Investment, Hefei Industrial Investment, Jiaxing Jiuzhao
- Production
- 577 shipped by 2025 · capacity 10,000 a year · 577 Kuavo units sold in 2025, up from 32 in 2024. Leju also sold 91 Roban and 3,988 Aelos units in 2025. The capacity figure is for the automated line in Foshan built with Guangdong Dongfang Precision: 'annual capacity of over 10,000 units', one robot every 30 minutes, 92% of key processes automated (China Daily, 2026-04-07, https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202604/07/WS69d45bd2a310d6866eb41eba.html). ↗
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Humanoids
Each model as the maker has shown it. Specs are maker-stated; a dash means no source states the figure.
| Model | Status | Announced | Height | Weight | DoF | Payload | Runtime | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kuavo 5 (advanced edition) ↗29 DOF (body, not counting end effectors), including a 2-DOF head, 7-DOF arms and a 1-DOF waist. Walks at 0.4 m/s and runs at 5 km/h. 60V 6Ah battery, about 1 h of walking. Uses a two-finger gripper, a Gemini-335L depth camera and a Mid-360 lidar. MaxA, MaxB and showroom versions are also listed. | Commercial | 2025 | 173 cm | 63.5 kg | 29 | — | 1 h | not published |
| Kuavo 5-W (MaxA) wheeled ↗Wheeled version with an omnidirectional chassis (4 DOF), a 3-DOF folding arm, 7-DOF arms and a 1-DOF waist. Battery is ≥48V, 50Ah+6Ah, and charges automatically, manually or by battery swap. Optional inspection kit with lidar, RTK and a gimbal camera. Runs on an AGX Orin. | Commercial | 2025 | 220 cm | 245 kg | 24 | — | — | not published |
| Kuavo (first generation / Kuavo 3) ↗First debuted in December 2023. Can jump 20 cm. Runs KaihongOS, which is based on OpenHarmony. Arms have '28+ degree of freedom'. Shown with Haier at AWE 2024. | Commercial | 2023-12 | — | 45 kg | — | — | — | Kuavo series average price was 413,900 yuan per unit in 2024 and 308,100 yuan in 2025 (prospectus, via Securities Market Weekly). No US$ figure is stated. |
| Aelos series ↗Small humanoid, Leju's first product (2016), used in schools. 3,988 units sold in 2025, 13.01% of revenue. Took part in the 2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony. | Commercial | 2016 | — | — | — | — | — | average price 8,300 yuan per unit in 2025 (prospectus, via Yicai) |
| Kuavo 4 Pro (standard edition) ↗22 DOF (body, not counting end effectors), with 5-DOF arms and 6-DOF legs. Walks at 0.4 m/s and runs at 5 km/h. 60V 6Ah battery, charges in ≤1.5 h, swappable battery board. MaxA, MaxB, advanced and showroom versions are also listed. | Commercial | — | 166 cm | 55 kg | 22 | — | 1 h | not published |
| Kuavo-MY ↗Leju calls it an 'open platform' for general embodied intelligence, for developers and industrial use. 1.4 m tall with 'more than 40 DoF'. Weight not published. | Commercial | — | 140 cm | — | — | — | — | not published |
| Roban series ↗Mid-size programmable humanoid for education. 91 units sold in 2025, 2.41% of revenue. | Commercial | — | — | — | — | — | — | average price 67,800 yuan per unit in 2025 (prospectus, via Securities Market Weekly) |
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Deployments
Named customers, what the robots do there, and how far it has gone.
| Customer | What | When | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAW Hongqi ↗ | Leju won FAW's public humanoid-robot tender (Nov 2024). Several Kuavo robots then did long-cycle logistics picking and box handling in the Hongqi final-assembly plant. | 2025 | Pilot |
| BAIC Off-Road Vehicle ↗ | Leju's 100th full-size humanoid was delivered to BAIC Off-Road | 2025-01 | Order |
| Jiangsu Hengtong ↗ | Kuavo worked in Hengtong's factory under a strategic cooperation on scaled industrial use of Kuavo | 2024 | Trial |
| NIO ↗ | Kuavo has worked at NIO (automotive) | — | Trial |
| Haier ↗ | Kuavo was co-developed with Haier as a home-service humanoid (laundry, watering plants) and shown at AWE 2024 | 2024-03 | Pilot |
| Local data-collection centres (multiple, government tenders) ↗ | Leju won tenders to build several local data-collection centres with Kuavo robots. This was the largest application segment in 2025, at 44.94% of revenue. | 2025 | Order |
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Dated facts
Milestones, orders, factories and filings, newest first.
- 2026-05On 19 May 2026 the Shenzhen Stock Exchange accepted Leju's ChiNext IPO. It is the first filing under ChiNext's new fourth listing standard. Leju plans to raise 2.6 billion yuan; its post-money valuation at the last round was 4.327 billion yuan. ↗
- 2026-05The SZSE sent its first round of inquiry on 26 May 2026. The prospectus cites Omdia/Counterpoint ranking Leju fourth worldwide in 2025 humanoid shipments. ↗
- 2026-05Revenue was 53.99 million yuan in 2023, 55.50 million in 2024 and 258 million in 2025. Net loss attributable to shareholders was 41.12 million, 59.23 million and 69.78 million yuan. Gross margin fell from 50.45% to 40.78%. The company says profit is expected in 2028 at the earliest. ↗
- 2026-04China's first automated humanoid production line with 'annual capacity of over 10,000 units' was launched in Foshan by Dongfang Precision and Leju. It produces one robot every 30 minutes. ↗
- 2025-10Leju raised 'about 1.5 billion yuan, or about $200 million U.S.' in a pre-IPO round for R&D and mass-production preparation ↗
- 2025-09On 9 Sep 2025 (per Tianyancha) Leju became a joint-stock company and was renamed Leju Intelligence (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. ↗
- 2025-01Leju delivered its 100th full-size humanoid, to BAIC Off-Road Vehicle ↗
- 2024-11Kuavo appeared at Huawei's HDC 2024 running Huawei Cloud's Pangu embodied-AI large model. On 15 Nov 2024 Leju signed an MoU as a partner of the newly opened Huawei (Shenzhen) Global Embodied AI Industry Innovation Center. Leju later said it had not announced the reported 2025 mass-production plan with Huawei. ↗
- 2024-03Huawei Cloud and Leju signed a strategic cooperation to explore 'Pangu large model + Kuavo humanoid' use cases (Leju newsroom headline) ↗
- 2023-12Kuavo first debuted in December 2023. A version co-developed with Haier was shown at AWE 2024, weighing about 45 kg and running KaihongOS, which is based on OpenHarmony. ↗
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Not yet confirmed
Claims seen in only one non-official place. Shown so they can be checked, not as findings.
- Kuavo 5 and Kuavo 5-W were unveiled on 18 Nov 2025. This date appears only in search snippets from aggregators (humanoid.guide, originofbots); no primary page was fetched, so 'announced' is set to 2025.
- Headcount: 468 employees at end-2025, 149 in R&D. This figure appears only in a search summary of prospectus coverage and was not found on the pages fetched (news.qq.com, lanjinger.com).
- Greenwoods Asset Management led the pre-IPO round. This is reported only by Robotics & Automation News, citing Cailianshe.
- The pre-IPO round size is 1.5 billion yuan in every report, but the US$ conversion varies: $200M (The Robot Report), $207M (Robotics & Automation News), $210M (DealStreetAsia headline).
- Leng Xiaokun said Q1 2025 delivery orders reached 250 units and that 2025 deliveries were expected at 1,000–2,000. Source: The Paper's contributor channel (澎湃号·湃客), not staff reporting.
- Leju has made 13 outside investments as of Aug 2026, including dexterous-hand and joint-module suppliers. Source: IT Juzi via 36Kr only.
- A post-IPO valuation could exceed 10 billion yuan. This is the journalist's own estimate (Securities Market Weekly, 36Kr), not a company figure.
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Sources
Retrieved 2026-11-08.
- Leju - Leader in the industrialization of humanoid robots — Leju Robotics
- Kuavo Manual (product introduction pages for Kuavo 4 Pro, Kuavo 5, Kuavo 5-W) — Leju Robotics
- Leju raises $200M for humanoid production as Unitree unveils H2 — The Robot Report
- Chinese humanoid robot maker Leju Robot secures $207 million in pre-IPO funding — Robotics & Automation News
- 乐聚智能抢下创业板第四套标准首单：估值43亿，收入为宇树15% — Yicai (第一财经)
- 乐聚智能创业板IPO申请获受理 腾讯、深创投等投资 — China Securities Journal
- 又一人形机器人“独角兽”启动IPO 腾讯现身大股东名单 — Securities Market Weekly (证券市场周刊)
- 乐聚智能冲击IPO，聚焦人形机器人产品，净利润持续亏损 — Gelonghui
- Automated humanoids production line in place — China Daily
- Humanoid Robot to Help with Housework — Science and Technology Daily
- 乐聚机器人回应“与华为合作的人形机器人明年量产”：没发布过相关消息 — IT之家
- 人形机器人“打工仔”来了，批量进厂、不要工资不摸鱼、24小时无休 — The Paper (澎湃号·湃客 contributor channel)
- 中国人形机器人产业“加速跑” — Xinhua
- Tencent and Kweichow Moutai Compete for Investment; Leju, a Strong Rival of Unitree, Plans for IPO — 36Kr
- The Ambition of the Robot Body Manufacturer: Dissect the External Investments of Leju Robotics — 36Kr (IT Juzi)