Clone Your Movements: Westlake Team Launches "Ultimate Cerebellum" Robot

Recently, Westlake Robotics (incubated by Westlake University) unveiled the humanoid robot Titan o1, equipped with the world's first GAE embodied avatar system. Leveraging the fully self-developed General Action Embedding (GAE) pre-training large model, it achieves millisecond-level real-time replication of human movements and cross-regional remote control, marking China's entry into the global first tier in the field of embodied intelligence general large models.

Shortly before this, the company completed a Pre-A funding round exceeding RMB 100 million (approximately $14 million), injecting strong momentum into technology iteration and commercial deployment.

Traditional humanoid robots generally rely on pre-programmed movements, with separate hand-foot systems, poor coordination, and lagged responses, exhibiting weak adaptability to unfamiliar scenarios and complex environments, making it difficult to achieve natural, fluid, intuitive movement. Westlake Robotics' Wang Donglin team directly addresses these industry pain points, creating the robot's "ultimate cerebellum"—the GAE General Action Embedding pre-training large model. Like the human cerebellum coordinating movement and maintaining balance, it enables robots to break free from fixed programming constraints, achieving action generalization and real-time response.

In live demonstrations, staff members wearing motion capture suits casually performed movements including turning, squatting, and calisthenics—Titan o1 synchronously replicated them at millisecond-level precision, with angle, rhythm, and details highly consistent. When faced with deliberate off-balance situations, the robot could quickly adjust posture to stabilize, replicating human balance reactions. The robot supports one-to-many remote control—a single person can simultaneously control dozens of devices via network to execute the same movements, requiring no programming or prior training. Ordinary people can quickly get started, truly achieving anytime, anywhere, intuitive control of an embodied avatar.

The GAE system is an original algorithm from the Westlake team, with technical capabilities leading international peers by at least 6 months. It possesses cross-platform adaptability, deployable on robot platforms of different sizes and structures. The team has accumulated the world's leading and China's largest high-quality full-body motion dataset, providing ample support for model learning and precise imitation. Inference speed is 25× faster than industry standards, with latency as low as milliseconds, capable of replicating complex movements including dancing and fine manipulation.

Behind the technological breakthrough lies dual support from top-tier scientific research and engineering capabilities. Westlake Robotics, founded in 2021, is Westlake University's first commercialization project in the AI and robotics sectors, led by embodied intelligence expert Professor Wang Donglin, with international natural language processing expert Professor Zhang Yue serving as Chief Scientist. The core R&D team has published over 300 papers at top-tier conferences, demonstrating outstanding academic and industrial translation capabilities. The company has been certified as a National High-Tech Enterprise and Zhejiang Province Specialized and Innovative SME, and has been selected for China's Most Promising Robotics Companies list.

In February 2026, Westlake Robotics announced the completion of a Pre-A funding round exceeding RMB 100 million (approximately $14 million), led by SAIF Partners, with participation from Longxin Venture Capital, Moganshan Fund, and others. Yiwei Capital served as exclusive financial advisor. The funds will be primarily used for embodied intelligence large model R&D, robot platform iteration, core component self-development, and market expansion, consolidating global technological leadership.

On the commercialization front, the company has formed a "technology-product-orders" closed loop. After launching commercialization in late 2025, it secured tens of millions in orders within a short time, covering scenarios including logistics inspection, community elderly care, entertainment performance, hazardous operations, and scientific research education. The 2026 channel sales target for the GAE embodied avatar system has approached RMB 100 million. Titan o1 has transitioned from laboratory prototype to market-ready product, available for customization across society. In the future, it will be widely deployed in high-risk scenarios including firefighting and rescue, mining operations, and high-altitude maintenance, while also entering everyday life and research sectors including shopping malls, performance stages, and universities.

Embodied intelligence, as a core track for artificial general intelligence, is at a critical period of U.S.-China technological competition, with original model capabilities and deployment efficiency becoming competitive core factors. With the breakthroughs of the GAE system and Titan o1, Westlake Robotics has constructed a full-chain barrier of "data-model-product," with its technology receiving high recognition from experts at institutions including Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Tesla, becoming a core force for China's participation in global embodied intelligence competition.

As R&D continues to advance and scenarios continue to expand, general-purpose humanoid robots represented by Titan o1 will accelerate into mainstream life, becoming efficient assistants in human production and daily living, driving the embodied intelligence industry toward a new phase of large-scale and general-purpose deployment.

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