A continuously updated global directory of robotics, automation, and AI suppliers
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Tel: 400-883-3391
https://tashantec.com
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Beijing tactile-sensing chip and fingertip sensor maker for robot hands; closed a several-hundred-million-RMB Series B in 2026.
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https://www.yimu.ai
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Chinese robotics firm Yimu Tech raised over RMB1B in a Series E round for tactile-sensing hardware, chips, and algorithms.
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Email: [email protected]
Tel: +86 10-67898850
https://www.tachin.com
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Beijing flexible electronic-skin startup making tactile sensing gloves, robot skins, and smart-cockpit touch systems.
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Tel: +81 3-6447-0610
http://www.touchence.jp
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University of Tokyo spinout developing soft flexible tactile sensors (ShokacCube) that detect 3D deformation, enabling robotic touch sensing and prosthetics.
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Tel: -6309
http://www.sycsense.com/
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Shenzhen maker of flexible capacitive tactile sensors and robot electronic skin for humanoid robots, industrial manipulators, and medical wearables.
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http://www.apexsensing.com/en/
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Apex Sensing develops flexible tactile sensors and electronic skin for humanoid robots, plus industrial inspection, medical and battery sensing.
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Tel: 349 265 7773
https://www.tactilerobots.com
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Italian robotics startup founded in 2016 in Lecce, building GUIDO, a pressure-sensitive autonomous indoor delivery robot for commercial spaces.
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E-mail: [email protected] Tel: (+86) 755-83087156
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +86 755 8308 7156
https://www.dmrobot.com/
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Shenzhen-based startup developing vision-based tactile sensors and dexterous robotic hands for embodied AI applications.
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Tel: +1.781.790.1905
https://www.gelsight.com
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US tactile sensing startup founded in 2011 in Waltham, MA by MIT researchers, producing elastomer-based tactile sensors for robotics and surface metrology.
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https://www.modu-tech.cn/
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Shenzhen-based developer of multimodal tactile sensing technology and tactile models for humanoid robots and industrial applications.
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Email: [email protected]
Tel: +852 9494 6823
https://mosensetech.com/
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MoSense is a Hong Kong tactile-sensing startup, incubated from an HKUST robotics team, building flexible electronic skin and the MOPENARM robotic arm.
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https://www.tactasystems.com
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Tacta Systems is a Palo Alto robotics startup building tactile-sensing robotic hands for manufacturing, backed by $75 million in Series A funding.
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https://www.tg0.co.uk/
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UK startup commercialising flexible polymer-based 3D touch and pressure sensing surfaces for consumer electronics, automotive, and healthcare products.
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Email: [email protected]
Tel: +81-3-6273-9827 / +81-80-8530-8855
https://xela-robotics.com
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Tokyo tactile sensor company spun from Waseda University, making uSkin 3-axis sensors and uAi software that give robots a human-like sense of touch.
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Email: [email protected]
Tel: +86 21 5109 7269
https://www.yotlive.com.cn/
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Shanghai's Yotlive makes flexible fabric pressure sensors used in elderly-care mattresses, car seats, and robot tactile-sensing gloves.
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Tel: +31 6 23660310
https://www.brightersignals.com/
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Amsterdam startup turning fabrics into high-depth tactile sensors that let machines and robots measure touch like humans for automotive, healthcare and.
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Email: [email protected]
Tel: +86 21-63210200
https://www.oymotion.com/
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Shanghai bionic-hand and EMG-interface maker whose FDA-cleared OHand prosthetic and ROHAND dexterous hand serve rehabilitation and robotic manipulation markets.
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https://takktile.com
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Harvard Biorobotics Lab spin-off offering low-cost MEMS barometer-based tactile sensors for robot hands with 1-gram sensitivity. Now defunct.
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https://holiday-robotics.com/
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South Korean startup building FRIDAY, a wheeled 64-DoF dexterous industrial humanoid, after a $105M Series A round in 2026.
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Email: [email protected]
https://www.agilink-ai.com
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Robotics company developing dexterous hands and grippers, spun off from AGIBOT, shipping its OmniHand series for embodied-AI and humanoid manipulation.
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https://www.digid.com
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German pioneer in nanoscale temperature and force sensor technology for robotics, medical devices, wearables, and industrial applications.
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https://linkerbot.cn/
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Beijing maker of high-DOF dexterous robotic hands for humanoids, with linkage, direct-drive, and tendon architectures.
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https://matrixrobotics.ai/
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Chinese developer of general-purpose humanoid robots, with flagship MATRIX-3 and MATRIX-1 driven by embodied AI.
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https://sensera.cn/
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Beijing e-skin robotics startup spun out of Soochow University research, developing tactile electronic-skin sensing; raised an angel round from Songhe Capital.
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Tel: +86 25 8379 2453
https://www.seu.edu.cn
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Top Chinese research university (985/Double First-Class) in Nanjing with leading robotics, AI, and tactile sensing research programs.
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https://www.link-touch.com/
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Blue Dot Touch develops high-precision six-axis force/torque and joint-torque sensors for humanoid robots and industrial force-control applications.
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Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 847 467 1253
https://hand-erc.org/
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NSF Engineering Research Center developing versatile dexterous robot hands with AI-powered manipulation skills and human interfaces.
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Tel: +49 6151 803 0
https://www.hbkworld.com/en
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Formed from the 2019 merger of Germany's HBM and Denmark's Bruel & Kjaer, HBK supplies load cells used in robotic tactile-sensing grippers.
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https://www.sileane.com/
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French robotics firm founded 2002 building vision-guided bin-picking and pick-and-place cells for agro-food, pharma, cosmetics and automotive lines.
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Email: [email protected]
Tel: +86 21 6220 0308
https://www.xenserobotics.com/
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Shanghai startup founded in 2024 by an SJTU tactile-sensing researcher, selling optical tactile sensors and the XTac UMI G1 data-collection gripper.