Shenzhen Yushan Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.

Shenzhen Yushan Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (English name: Yushan Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.) was founded in June 2021 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. It is a high-tech enterprise engaged in the R&D and sales of fully automatic AI cooking robots. Centered on robotic-arm cooking technology, the company integrates high-precision robot control systems with AI multimodal large models to deliver an integrated hardware-and-software digital catering solution.

he company's R&D team was built on the research resources of universities including Zhejiang University and South China University of Technology. After years of development, it produced a fully automatic cooking robot based on a compact six-axis articulated robotic arm; the product passed expert-panel review by the Guangdong Provincial Cuisine Association in November 2021. The robot can automatically complete the full cooking workflow — ingredient loading, stir-frying, blanching, wok washing, and dish serving — and supports customized recipes. It mainly serves B2B customers such as star-rated hotels, chain restaurants, and government and enterprise canteens.

From late 2025 to early 2026, the company successively completed a Pre-A round and a Pre-A+ round of financing. It also won the Gold Award, Best Design Award, and on-site Popularity Champion Award at the Intelligent Robot Cooking Competition hosted by the China Cuisine Association, and was recognized as a national-level technology-based SME in 2026.

Basic Information

Company Introduction

Shenzhen Yushan Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. ("Yushan Intelligent" hereinafter) was founded in June 2021 and registered in Nanshan District, Shenzhen. It specializes in the R&D and sales of intelligent cooking robots, with its core business in the integration and development of intelligent cooking robots and their control systems. Centered on embodied intelligent robot technology, the company deeply integrates high-precision robot control systems with AI multimodal large models to build an integrated hardware-and-software digital catering solution[5].

Milestones

Yushan Intelligent's R&D trace dates back to 2013. In October 2013, the founder team commissioned Professor Chen Yangzhi of the School of Mechanical Engineering, South China University of Technology, to assemble a team and begin cooking-robot R&D. In 2014, the first-generation cooking machine was developed at SCUT; in 2019, the sixth-generation cooking robot with a robotic manipulator was successfully developed at the Zhejiang University South China Industrial Research Institute. On November 27, 2021, the laboratory prototype passed expert-panel review by the Guangdong Provincial Cuisine Association. The R&D team was built on the research resources of universities including Zhejiang University and South China University of Technology. In July 2025, the company jointly established the "AI Cooking Robot Joint Innovation Center" with the Zhejiang University South China Industrial Technology Research Institute, and set up its Hong Kong, China entity to focus on next-generation technology R&D and global market expansion.

 

Products and Technology

The company's products are divided into two product lines by market: the domestic edition and the export edition. The domestic edition has launched and commercially deployed the Liuyun, Xuri, Tiangong, and Feitian series of fully automatic AI cooking robots; the export edition covers the Liuyun and Tiangong series. The Tiangong series is the flagship model, making its global debut on an offshore platform in July 2026. It is a fully automatic AI Chinese-cuisine cooking robot based on a compact six-axis articulated robotic arm, mastering 26 Chinese cooking techniques.

Liuyun Series (left), Xuri Series (right), Tiangong Series (left), Feitian Series (right)

Core Products

The company's core product is a fully automatic AI cooking robot based on a compact six-axis articulated robotic arm. It integrates ten fully automatic control systems: automatic stir-frying, automatic wok tossing, automatic ingredient loading (main ingredients, auxiliary ingredients, condiments), automatic liquid dispensing, automatic solid dispensing, automatic heating, automatic lid-on, automatic blanching, automatic wok washing, and automatic dish serving, enabling a one-key bionic cooking workflow. Seasoning dispensing accuracy reaches the gram level, and stir-frying temperatures reach 300–350°C, preserving the wok hei (breath of the wok) essential to Chinese cuisine. The product supports locally deployed customized recipes and automatic ingredient loading according to custom recipes, and can open AI interfaces to enable intelligent control of processes such as blanching and braising.

Technical Features

• Six-axis robotic-arm bionic cooking: the six-axis articulated arm can position flexibly in three-dimensional space, replicating chef movements such as stir-frying, wok tossing, spatula sliding, wok-edge glazing, and blanching. It simulates more than 20 Chinese cooking techniques, reproducing star-chef dishes 1:1 while ensuring stable, consistent output.
• Ten fully automatic control systems: integrating ten systems — automatic heating, ingredient loading (main/auxiliary/seasoning), liquid dispensing (8 types), solid dispensing (4 types), stir-frying, blanching, lid-on, dish serving, wok washing, and air blowing (drying the wok) — it delivers unmanned operation across the entire workflow from loading and cooking to serving, washing, and drying, with no manual intervention.
•  Proprietary intelligent wok temperature control: real-time wok-temperature monitoring, intelligent variable-frequency control, and staged heat adjustment enable dynamic regulation of the wok-temperature curve. It uses high-power induction stir-frying with three-dimensional heating for even heat distribution, and pioneered iron-wok flipping technology to switch between cooking, washing, and serving states.
• High-precision dispensing and seasoning: seasoning accuracy reaches the 1-gram level; liquid condiments support eight types including light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, aged vinegar, and oyster sauce; solid condiments support four types including salt, MSG, and sugar. Automated ingredient shaking prevents settling of starchy seasonings, and the rotary dish-loading module precisely dispenses main ingredients, auxiliary ingredients, and blended mixtures.
• Constant-temperature water supply and automatic cleaning: equipped with a precision constant-temperature water tank (50–60°C) and a 50μm filter, high-pressure water flow automatically cleans the wok and spatula. After cooking, a bamboo brush, constant-temperature hot water, and the spray system wash the wok fully automatically in just over one minute, with no chemical residue.
• AI intelligence and cloud recipes: integrating a multimodal AI large model, visual and tactile perception, and an AI digital twin control system, it opens AI interfaces. It supports locally deployed customized recipes and cloud recipe management, with cloud storage and one-key synchronization, aggregating nearly a thousand certified recipes. Devices support networked remote monitoring and OTA upgrades, with the backend automatically generating operational data reports.
• Patent portfolio: holding more than 40 authorized domestic and foreign patents and PCT international patent applications, including core PCT invention patents for robotic-arm cooking robots protected on a global scale.

Financing History

From 2025 to 2026, Yushan Intelligent completed two rounds of financing: in January 2026, it closed a Pre-A round of tens of millions of RMB led by Yuejiang Technology; in February 2026, it closed a Pre-A+ round jointly led by Bike Venture Capital and Bike Interconnect, with the Zhejiang University South China Industrial Technology Research Institute contributing scientific and technological achievements.

Awards and Honors

• In 2025, at the Intelligent Robot Cooking Competition hosted by the China Cuisine Association, the company won the Gold Award, Best Design Award, and on-site Popularity Champion Award simultaneously.
• In 2025, it received the Award for Excellence in Promoting Chinese Food Culture Worldwide at the 8th International Chinese Cuisine Forum in Chicago, North America.
• It was honored with the Excellence Innovation Enterprise Award at the Bay Area New Quality Productive Forces Ecology Conference, the Top 100 Rising Enterprises of the Bay Area at the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Tech Innovation Conference, and the AI Tianma High-Growth Enterprise award at the Greater Bay Area AI Leaders Summit.
• In 2026, it was recognized as a national-level technology-based SME (Registration No. 2026440305A0016390), and in the same year was rated a Guangdong Provincial Innovative SME.
• In December 2025, the company's cooking robot appeared in a special feature of CCTV News titled "Future Life Arena," demonstrating fully automatic stir-frying on site.
• In August 2025, it was named one of the "Top Ten Lizhu Stars 2025" at the 2025 AGIC Shenzhen (International) General Artificial Intelligence Conference.
• In September 2025, it won the Merit Award in the Startup Enterprise category of the 2025 Guangdong International Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition (AI and Robotics Special Tournament).
• In January 2026, it was listed among the "Top 100 Innovative and Rising Enterprises of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area 2025" (released at the 8th Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao Tech Innovation Conference).
• In October 2026, it was selected into the Top 100 of the 2026 Future Industry Sci-Tech Pioneer List (ranked 57th), released alongside the "Future Industry Pavilion" at the Hong Kong Autumn Electronics Fair.
• According to public company information, it received the title "Industry Leader in Shared Cooking Robots" from the China International Fair for Investment and Trade, and was recognized with the "Famous Quality Catering Product of Shenzhen" by the Shenzhen Cuisine Association and the "AI Application Award (Tiange Award)" by the Nanshan District New Quality Productive Forces Association of Shenzhen.

Application Scenarios and Partner Clients

Yushan Intelligent products target the B2B catering market and are widely used in chain star-rated hotels, social chain restaurant brands, government and enterprise canteens, university canteens, vocational culinary schools, central kitchens, and overseas Chinese-cuisine markets, with expansion into specialized support scenarios such as elderly care and medical services, cultural tourism and events, and offshore platforms.

In terms of operating model, the company adopts a "one person, multiple machines" model: one operator can manage multiple devices simultaneously, improving space and labor efficiency while reducing labor costs and cooking error rates, and solving the standardization challenge of Chinese cuisine. Products are divided by market into the domestic edition (Liuyun, Xuri, Tiangong, Feitian series) and the export edition (Liuyun, Tiangong series), with the export edition serving overseas Chinese-cuisine markets.

Yushan Intelligent's fully automatic AI cooking robot demonstrated cooking live at the AGIC conference, drawing a crowd of onlookers.