Company · Xense Robotics 3 items

One-line positioning

Xense Robotics is a Shanghai-based embodied-tactile company founded in May 2024 that builds multimodal visuotactile sensors, tactile perception and control modules, and tactile AI models for dexterous robot manipulation.

Key facts

Founder Daolin Ma is an associate professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University whose work won the ICRA 2021 Best Conference Paper Award, and core team members come from MIT, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and University College London. As of September 2026 the company has completed seven funding rounds with backing from Hillhouse Ventures, AGIBOT, Oriza Seed, Gobi Partners, Futeng Capital (Shanghai Embodied Intelligence Fund), Li Auto, Binfu Capital, Keshi Capital, Tianji Capital and Jide Electrical. The company is privately held.

Products & tech

The portfolio covers fingertip and gripper-type multimodal tactile sensors (Elf, Quark N1, Quark W1, Photon, GS-PS), the Aurora Lite intelligent tactile gripper, the XTac UMI G1 wearable data-collection gripper and XENSE SIM tactile simulation software. Tricolor-light visuotactile sensing reaches 0.03 mm spatial resolution and 0.02 N resultant-force accuracy, and reports 3D shape, texture, six-axis resultant force, 3D force distribution, slip detection and motion tracking. A vision-tactile-language-action (VTLA) model closes the loop between tactile perception and fine control.

Market position

A leading domestic supplier in visuotactile perception, with deployments in dexterous manipulation, precision industrial assembly, tactile inspection, flexible logistics and home agents. It works with AGIBOT, Li Auto, X Square Robot, Haier, Google DeepMind and L'Oréal China, and states that it serves more than 300 industry customers.