Led · Equity · Jan 2024

元生智能 develops intelligent rehabilitation and nursing hardware for the large‑health assistive home‑service sector. Its product lineup includes intelligent caregiving robots and other smart rehabilitation care devices. The company emphasizes R&D of intelligent rehabilitation and care apparatus. Recently it closed an angel financing of tens of millions of yuan. Proceeds from the round will be used for product production, technology R&D and iteration, marketing and promotion, and new product development. The article does not disclose operating metrics or additional financial details. 元生科技 builds an intelligent hardware product that detects elderly behavior and monitors caregiver activities to address self-care deficits and emergency situations at home. The device combines multiple functions for behavior detection and caregiver-monitoring aimed at semi-dependent, solitary, and empty-nest elderly. The company raised a seed round of several million yuan to fund product research, development, and production. CEO Deng Longsheng previously served as a senior product manager for Xiaotiancai learning tablets and head of Spark Education's internet center; cofounder and product lead Fang Shaojie led Xiaotiancai's initial phone-watch product and was product director at Huohuo Rabbit. The team reports experience in hardware R&D, channel resources, and supply-chain resources. The article highlights China's large elderly population need, citing roughly 137 million older adults with varying care needs (42.5M semi‑disabled, 22.4M living alone, 72.6M empty‑nest non‑alone).