Xense Robotics

A Shanghai embodied-touch company building vision-based tactile sensors, tactile data, and tactile models.

Xense Robotics was founded in Shanghai in May 2024; founder Daolin Ma is a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and an ICRA 2021 Best Paper winner who earned his PhD at MIT. The company's main product is vision-based tactile sensing — using a camera to capture how a soft rubber surface deforms in order to measure contact force and texture — offered as fingertip and gripper sensors and wearable tactile-data-collection gloves, alongside the Xense Sim tactile simulator, the TacVerse dataset, and the X-TouchMind V1 tactile model, aiming to fill the sense of touch that fine robot manipulation still lacks. In October 2025 it closed a Pre-A round in the tens of millions of RMB led by Futeng Capital with Li Auto participating; in July 2026 it raised a further round in the tens of millions, and that September it announced two consecutive strategic rounds of several hundred million RMB, with investors including Lanchi Ventures and a fund under CICC Capital.

ExampleMounting a fingertip-type vision-based tactile sensor on a gripper lets it judge from the tactile image whether an egg is slipping while grasping it, and adjust its grip force accordingly.

Also called

Xense

Related

Vision-Based Tactile Sensor · Tactile Sensor · Tactile Simulation · Tactile Data · Dexterous Manipulation

Sources

千觉机器人宣布连续完成两轮数亿元战略融资（新浪科技） (Chinese)
千觉机器人连续完成两轮数亿元战略融资（腾讯新闻） (Chinese)
千觉机器人官网：完成天使轮融资 (Chinese)

As of

2026-09