Suzhou TendonBot Tech. Co., Ltd. - 苏州智行腱机器人科技有限公司

Suzhou TendonBot Tech. Co., Ltd. (registered under the Chinese legal name Suzhou Zhixingjian Robot Technology Co., Ltd.) is an embodied-intelligence hardware startup headquartered in Kunshan, a county-level city administered by Suzhou in Jiangsu Province, China. Business registration records show the company was incorporated on April 22, 2026, with registered capital of RMB 5 million and roughly 50 insured employees, making it a very young, small-scale venture. Its registered office is Room 101, 1st Floor, Building 4 (R&D and Pilot Test Building), No. 181 Chongyuan Road, Zhouzhuang Town, Kunshan, Suzhou. The company exhibited at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing under booth A326.

TendonBot's technology is built around a proprietary, non-electromagnetic, linear-extension actuator that the company describes as an artificial tendon: a composite-material drive element intended to reproduce the force, precision, and self-locking behavior of human skeletal muscle rather than relying on a conventional motor-and-gearbox or hydraulic drivetrain. The core actuator module is specified with a one-way stroke of 17.5 mm and a two-way stroke of 30 mm, a unit weight under 5 grams, an output force of 50 N, and micron-level displacement control. Individual tendon modules can reportedly be combined in series or parallel arrangements, support closed-loop force control, and self-lock in position when power is removed.

Building on this actuator, TendonBot has developed a tendon-driven dexterous hand with more than 15 degrees of freedom, a total hand weight below 400 grams -- said to be more than 60 percent lighter than comparable conventional dexterous hands -- and integrated tactile feedback for manipulation tasks. A companion isomorphic data glove captures human hand motion at sub-millimeter precision with force feedback, intended for teleoperation and imitation-learning data collection, and a two-degree-of-freedom dynamic binocular vision module, marketed as "Lingdong Eyes," provides hand-eye coordination with a response latency under 5 milliseconds.

The company was founded by a team combining automotive and robotics backgrounds: CEO Li Wei holds a doctorate in intelligent robotics from Soochow University and previously served as CTO/VP at Baolong Technology after more than two decades in automotive electronics and chip development; CTO Prof. Chen Liguo leads the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Embodied Intelligent Robot Technology; and COO Zhou Hong, also with roughly two decades of automotive industry experience, was an early core team member at both XPeng Motors and Chuhang Technology. As of the source date, no public funding round, certification, or export activity had been disclosed for the company.