Xense Robotics (Qianjue Robotics) - 千觉机器人
Shanghai startup founded in 2024 by an SJTU tactile-sensing researcher, selling optical tactile sensors and the XTac UMI G1 data-collection gripper.
Xense Robotics, registered as Qianjue Robotics Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., is a Shanghai-based tactile-sensing company founded in May 2024 by Ma Daolin, a vice professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a researcher in robotic tactile perception. The company builds a software-and-hardware tactile perception solution for robots, spanning sensors, tactile-enabled end effectors, and simulation and control software, aimed at giving robotic hands and grippers a sense of touch to support fine manipulation tasks that vision alone cannot reliably handle.
Its sensor line includes several form factors built around a proprietary optical tactile-sensing approach: the Sprite sensor, a fingertip-sized unit designed for integration into dexterous robotic hands; Quark N1 and Quark W1, sensors with a biomimetic curved surface intended to conform to irregularly shaped objects and provide an enlarged sensing area; the Photon sensor, a flat wedge-shaped design for general-purpose grasping tasks; and GS-PS, a compact sensor built for direct integration into parallel and multi-finger grippers. On top of these sensors, Xense sells the Aurora Lite intelligent tactile gripper, which integrates the company's vision-tactile sensors with flexible actuation and an onboard edge-computing unit for deployment across different robot platforms without extensive integration engineering.
A distinct product, the XTac UMI G1, is a wearable, handheld multimodal data-collection device rather than a robot-mounted sensor: it combines a tri-color tactile sensor, a wrist-mounted fisheye camera, and high-precision pose and IMU tracking to let human operators record synchronized vision-tactile-motion demonstrations. Xense positions this device for building embodied-operation datasets used to train imitation-learning and other robot-manipulation models, a workflow increasingly used by humanoid and dexterous-manipulation research teams.
The company lists intelligent and embodied manufacturing, flexible logistics, and healthcare as target application areas for its tactile-sensing stack. Its research lineage includes an IEEE ICRA Best Conference Paper award in 2021, and the company has been recognized in China's Global Open Innovation Top 100 list for 2024 and named among the WRC China Top 30 Most Promising Robotics Companies for 2025; Shanghai Jiao Tong University has designated it a Future Star enterprise. Xense is headquartered in Minhang District, Shanghai, and can be reached at [email protected] for business inquiries or by phone. The company maintains a presence on Chinese social platforms including WeChat, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili and Douyin, but does not list official LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook or YouTube company accounts on its site.
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2024
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Keywords
- Xense Robotics (Qianjue Robotics)
- 千觉机器人
- tactile sensor
- visual-tactile fusion
- embodied AI
- robot gripper
- dexterous hand
- imitation learning
- data collection glove
- XTac UMI G1
- Aurora Lite gripper
- Component Supplier
- Software/Algorithm
- Perception & Vision
- End-effector & Grasping
- Manufacturing
- Healthcare & Senior Care
- Logistics & Supply Chain
