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Daimon Robot was incubated from a research team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, officially began operations in 2023, and is headquartered in Shenzhen, with an R&D center in Hong Kong.
The company positions itself as a "provider of embodied intelligence physical interaction infrastructure," dedicated to building a full-stack physical AI capability system that integrates tactile perception, data, and models.
Daimon has proposed a vision-tactile-language-action (VTLA) end-to-end model roadmap, and in 2026 released the world's first tactile-anchored world model, Daimon-TWM.
In August 2026, Daimon completed a strategic funding round of several hundred million RMB, led by Ant Group.
Its clients include OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, and BMW.
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