36Kr first release | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology doctor starts a business to make a whole-body tactile system for robots, Sequoia, Lingzhi, and Zhiyuan jointly bet on it

Author | Qiao Yujie Editor | Yuan Silai Hard Krypton has learned that MoSense, a whole-body multi-modal fusion tactile solution company, recently completed tens of millions of yuan in angel round financing. Investors include Sequoia China, Hillhouse Venture Capital and Zhiyuan Robotics. This round of financing will be mainly used to accelerate research and development, team expansion, computing power investment and mass production testing system construction. Mosen Technology was established in May 2026, with its headquarters registered in Shanghai and a R&D center in Qianhai, Shenzhen, focusing on the research and development of full-body multi-modal tactile sensing systems for robots. Only one month after the company was officially established, it received joint bets from leading US dollar funds and humanoid manufacturers. As humanoid robots gradually move from display scenes to real and complex human scenes such as industrial manufacturing, logistics handling and home services, the robot's comprehensive and generalized perception of the environment is becoming an important bottleneck restricting its implementation. Compared with vision, which can obtain environmental information, touch is responsible for sensing physical interaction states such as contact, force, and friction, which is an important basis for robots to complete stable operations and autonomous decision-making. However, most of the current haptic solutions in the industry are deployed in local locations such as dexterous hands or fingertips of grippers, and can only cope with local fine operation requirements. In complex scenes, other parts of the robot's body still lack tactile feedback, making it difficult to form complete physical interaction capabilities. At the same time, various traditional technical routes are also limited by factors such as cost, area coverage, and sensing modes, making it difficult to achieve large-scale deployment of large-area, continuous curved surfaces. In order to enhance the robot's comprehensive perception capabilities, MoSkin Technology has launched the MoSkin full-body flexible multi-modal tactile system based on electromagnetic superstructural mechanics technology, which covers the robot's hands, limbs, trunk, soles and other parts. It can transform the robot's rigid physical boundaries into continuous six-dimensional force field perception, realize multi-modal tactile collection throughout the whole body, and provide more complete physical information for robot motion control and environmental interaction. Electromagnetic metastructure sensing skin (foot sole) In response to the problem of a single modality of traditional tactile systems, the company's MoSkin solution can integrate multiple complex modal physical information, such as force, temperature, slip, vibration, material, etc., to achieve sensing capabilities close to real skin. remove