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      "company": "TARS Robotics",
      "hq_country": "China",
      "website": "https://www.tars-ai.com/",
      "status": "active",
      "what_it_builds": "Develops its own A-series wheeled industrial humanoids, including A1, and T-series bipedal general-purpose humanoids. Initial uses include precision wire-harness assembly for automotive and electronics manufacturing, supported by its AWE embodied AI models.",
      "what_it_builds_source": "https://www.36kr.com/p/3768920808391176",
      "founded_year": "2024",
      "founded_source": "https://www.lanjinger.com/d/b58ad9b8-134e-499c-83ed-7e8a0dbcb583",
      "funding_usd": "697000000",
      "funding_basis": "disclosed rounds",
      "funding_source": "https://www.cls.cn/detail/2345833",
      "funding_note": "Summed: 2025-03-26 $120m angel (https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/1742970143168030.html); 2025-07-08 $122m angel+ (https://vc.pedaily.cn/company/714963.html); 2026-04-16 over $455m Pre-A, counted $455m, press-reported (https://www.cls.cn/detail/2345833). USD amounts; no funding FX. Excluded: 2026-07-31 Pre-A+, amount undisclosed (https://vc.pedaily.cn/company/714963.html); early $150m seed rumor corrected to angel (https://www.lanjinger.com/d/b58ad9b8-134e-499c-83ed-7e8a0dbcb583). Valuation: 2026-04-16 ~CNY13bn (https://finance.sina.com.cn/wm/2026-04-16/doc-inhusvkh1643727.shtml), converted at 6.8216 CNY/USD (https://www.exchange-rates.org/exchange-rate-history/usd-cny-2026); CNY18bn refers to a planned next round, excluded. Incorporated 2024; public launch 2025.",
      "latest_funding_date": "2026-04-16",
      "valuation_usd": "1905711270",
      "latest_model": "A3 (wheeled dual-arm industrial humanoid)",
      "latest_model_year": "2026",
      "latest_model_source": "https://www.lanjinger.com/t/1784000925802556024",
      "units_shipped": "15",
      "units_shipped_source": "https://finance.sina.com.cn/wm/2026-04-16/doc-inhusvkh1643727.shtml",
      "units_shipped_note": "By March 2026: staff reported 15 robots delivered to one Suzhou automotive factory for wire-harness work; models unspecified, not a company-wide total. July reporting describes a later hundred-unit-scale A-series deployment in Jiading without an exact delivered count (https://www.shobserver.cn/wx/detail.do?id=1144380). Capacity, prebookings and planned deployments excluded.",
      "as_of": "2026-11-03"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/1742970143168030.html",
    "https://vc.pedaily.cn/company/714963.html",
    "https://www.cls.cn/detail/2345833",
    "https://www.lanjinger.com/d/b58ad9b8-134e-499c-83ed-7e8a0dbcb583",
    "https://finance.sina.com.cn/wm/2026-04-16/doc-inhusvkh1643727.shtml",
    "https://www.exchange-rates.org/exchange-rate-history/usd-cny-2026",
    "https://www.36kr.com/p/3768920808391176",
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tars-demonstrates-a-robot-that-can-perform-hand-embroidery-breaking-through-a-key-automation-bottleneck-in-flexible-manufacturing-302648045.html",
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tars-debuts-at-waic-2026-as-its-awe-embodied-foundation-model-wins-prestigious-sail-award-302833236.html",
    "https://robottoday.com/suppliers-discovery/tars-robotics-cn",
    "https://www.lanjinger.com/t/1784000925802556024",
    "https://www.shobserver.cn/wx/detail.do?id=1144380"
  ]
}