PokeBot Raises Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Pre-A Funding

PokeBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in a pre-A round led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners. The months-old company is developing household robots for tasks including clothes folding and cooking. A demonstration showed one of its robots autonomously cooking mapo tofu in nine minutes. [TechNode reporting]