TMTPOST — Chinese artificial intelligence hardware startup Shanghai Luobo Intelligent Technology, commercially known as Robopoet, has secured over RMB 100 million ($13.8 million) in a Pre-A funding round on Monday to finance its mid-to-long-term product development and global market expansion. The financing round was co-led by Matrix Partners China and Fibocom Wireless, with corporate cloud platform Tuya Smart participating as a strategic follow-on investor. Existing institutional shareholders Sequoia China and GSR Ventures also injected additional capital into the toy-focused venture, which has established strategic technical partnerships with connectivity suppliers to deploy the cellular version of its flagship interactive AI companion robot, Fuzozo. Consumer-oriented generative AI deployment is increasingly migrating from purely software-based desktop interfaces into highly specialized physical hardware verticals across the Chinese mainland. Venture capital allocation trends indicate strong institutional preference for engineering teams capable of shrinking large language models into low-latency embedded systems, transforming traditional interactive hardware into emotionally responsive, localized computing nodes.