Mars Landing, a Wuhan-based robotics startup founded in April 2025 by post-2000 founder Zhu Yuhan, has completed two consecutive funding rounds worth tens of millions of yuan, according to the article. The investors named are Leaguer Venture Capital, Optics Valley Financial Holding, Ruijiang Investment and Wuhan Hi-Tech Group, while existing backer MiraclePlus added more capital. Rather than training a larger embodied foundation model, the company is betting on what it calls a brain-like architecture built on spatial intelligence. Zhu argues that a model can provide capabilities, but that does not amount to a full robotic brain. In his view, the harder problem is how to organize memory, task state, skills, action and feedback so a machine can keep operating autonomously over long time horizons in changing real-world environments. The startup is focusing on open and complex settings such as underground spaces, tunnels, forests, emergency response, and eventually homes, eldercare and commercial services. It has also built a product lineup consisting of Xingqing M1, Xingqun M2 and Xingmang M3, covering spatial understanding and memory, task organization and coordination, and on-device skill execution.