
Flexiv is a general-purpose intelligent robotics unicorn founded in Silicon Valley.
The company is built around its fully in-house developed force control technology, achieving a force sensing precision of 0.03N.
In March 2026, Flexiv released its new generation product portfolio: the Enlight series of fully perceptive adaptive robots, the Orion next-generation architecture controller, the integrated humanoid intelligent platform MICO, and the enhanced gecko-material gripper.
The company is repositioning itself from an adaptive robot manufacturer to a core infrastructure provider for the era of general-purpose intelligence.

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