Market Moves
Chinese startup Junrou raises nearly RMB 100 million for brain electrodes steered by magnets
Junrou Technology, founded in 2025 by Liu Zhiyuan of the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, has closed an angel-plus round of nearly RMB 100 million led by Shunwei Capital, with GL Ventures, humanoid robot maker AgiBot and Nansha Qisheng following. The company is commercialising NeuroWorm, a soft fibre electrode published in Nature in September 2025 that can be steered through tissue by an external magnet. It plans an investigator-initiated clinical study in 2027, starting with epilepsy and depression, and has also developed electronic skin for robot hands.