A group of investors, including Capital Today, SoftBank Vision Fund, Jinyi Capital, Meituan, BlueRun Ventures and Grand Flight, led a $188m series C funding round in Gaussian Robotics, a developer of commercial automatic sweeping robots. “Digital management is the only way to resolve the contradiction between manpower and management costs in the traditional service industry in the future. As the most important terminal in digital management, robots are accelerating intelligent cleaning against the backdrop of an aging population, rapid urbanization and current epidemic prevention measures,” Cheng Haotian, Gaussian Robotics Founder and CEO.