On September 25, 2025, at the Global Digital Trade Expo's "Digital Trade Investment Day" in Hangzhou, Spirit AI emerged as a focal point through its technological displays and strategic signing. The event gathered UAE government representatives, leaders from ICBC, Zhejiang provincial officials, and numerous global investment institutions and tech innovators.
As a key component of the expo, the "Digital Trade Investment Day" aimed to foster capital-technology alignment in digital trade. During a highlight ceremony, Spirit AI stood as the only enterprise to sign a cooperation agreement with the Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Mother Fund. This partnership will deepen collaboration in R&D, industrial implementation, and ecosystem development, advancing embodied AI solutions across Zhejiang and contributing to technological self-reliance and high-quality economic growth.
The collaboration will leverage Spirit AI’s independent R&D capabilities in embodied AI and the fund’s capital and industrial resources, focusing on joint technological innovation, application scenario development, and industry chain cultivation. This synergy will accelerate Spirit AI’s local industrialization and reinforce Zhejiang’s leading role in cultivating new productive forces.
At the expo, Spirit AI demonstrated the latest application of its self-developed VLA model Spirit v1 through a precise clothes-folding demo by the Moz1 full-torque humanoid robot. Moz1 exhibited advanced operation skills and real-time anti-interference capabilities—smoothly stretching, flattening, folding, and stacking a T-shirt despite disruptions.
As a pioneer in embodied AI, Spirit AI has completed five funding rounds since its founding in February 2024, attracting major investments from
JD.com, Prosperity7 Ventures, Shunwei Capital, HUAWEI Hubble, and CATL.
This new partnership with the Zhejiang Mother Fund underscores Spirit AI’s industry leadership and future potential. The company remains committed to its vision of "creating a new generation of intelligent labor" and its mission to "enable 10% of the global population to own a robot within 10 years." Moving forward, Spirit AI will continue to push technological boundaries and accelerate the industrial application of embodied AI, injecting new energy into the digital economy and powering the growth of new quality productive forces.
