Ropedia builds data infrastructure for physical AI by capturing, structuring, and delivering real-world human experience data to robotics and embodied-AI teams.

Founders

• Zhaoxi Chen · co-founder and CEO
  He studied Automation as an undergraduate at Tsinghua University, earned a PhD at Nanyang Technological University, and previously participated in building Meta's optical motion-capture system.
• Fangzhou Hong · co-founder and CTO
  He earned a B.Eng. in Software Engineering from Tsinghua University and a PhD from Nanyang Technological University, and previously worked on Meta Reality Labs' first-person multimodal intelligence research.
• Ziwei Liu · co-founder and Chief Scientist
  He studied at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, earned his PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is an associate professor at Nanyang Technological University.

Business model

Ropedia monetizes dataset licensing, custom Data-as-a-Service and data-delivery work, and access to or sales of its HOMIE capture hardware.

Total raised

US$30 million · as its sources put it, more than the rounds on record

Customers

DeepMind, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, MIT