标题: Five-Month-Old Startup Raises Nearly RMB 200 Million in Two Rounds to 3D Print “Skin” for Robots [打印本页] 作者: admin 时间: 2026-11-12 10:33 标题: Five-Month-Old Startup Raises Nearly RMB 200 Million in Two Rounds to 3D Print “Skin” for Robots Nanjixiong's introduction: This year the humanoid-robot industry has talked extensively about foundation models, bipedal walking, and joint torque, but one question gets less attention: how does a robot know what it has touched? Without skin, even a dexterous hand is just a metal clamp. A Shanghai startup founded only five months ago has raised nearly RMB 200 million across two rounds to address this by using magneto-photocuring 3D printing to integrate sensors directly into robot housings.
Nanjixiong learned that MoSense announced a nine-figure RMB angel-plus round in October 2026, co-led by CDH Investments and Oasis Capital, with contributions from LimX Dynamics, Loongson Capital, CAS Star, Huashan Capital, and Pudong Venture Capital. Houlang Capital acted as its long-term exclusive financial adviser. In early July, just over a month after the company was founded, Sequoia China, Hillhouse Ventures, and Agibot participated in an angel round of tens of millions of RMB. The two rounds together approach RMB 200 million.
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A company dividing robot “skin” into five parts
Rather than treating electronic skin as one generic product, MoSense divides a humanoid robot's body into five product lines, each developed as a separate structural component:
- MoChest anterior tactile system: a flexible curved surface conforms to the chest and uses a non-contact magnetic-sensing array to detect force distribution.
- MoSenseFoot Wireless foot module: a lightweight wireless design with a high-density Hall array that reports plantar pressure distribution and contact direction for bipedal robots.
- MoGrip high-density fingertip system: an ultra-dense magnetic-sensing array with high-speed sampling, designed to predict slippage and improve dexterous-grasp success.
- MoTip fingertip tactile sensor: a miniature array with flexible covering that captures fine contact and three-dimensional force changes.
- MoPad finger-pad module: optimized for the broad load-bearing area of a fingertip to provide stable grasp feedback.
The manufacturing choice behind the product line is notable for 3D printing. Instead of printing a housing and attaching sensor film afterward, the company uses magneto-photocuring 3D printing to form magnetic units and auxetic artificial lattices together as a tactile structural part. Flexible materials such as silicone, foam, and TPU can be formed directly on complex curved surfaces, avoiding the fit, extra process steps, and full-body coverage problems of conventional electronic skin. The company also provides large-area curved-surface calibration algorithms, so downstream customers can use the products out of the box.
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△ A hand presses on a MoSkin tactile structure while a laptop displays a real-time force heat map of its internal lattice.
Team: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology roots and a senior professor as chief scientist
Public information indicates that MoSense's core founding team includes interdisciplinary master's and doctoral graduates from HKUST, Imperial College London, and Zhejiang University:
- Co-founder and CEO Yan Chaoxu, a PhD in microelectronics from HKUST, previously worked on a meter-scale self-tracking electromagnetic focused wireless-charging system and has industry-investment experience at Morgan Stanley, CITIC Securities, and Plug and Play.
- Co-founder and CTO Zhou Hang, a robotics PhD from HKUST, was a senior algorithm researcher at Desay SV (Singapore) and led a team that won gold in the 2021 World Intelligent Driving Challenge.
- Co-founder and CFO Yang Mujun, PhD.
- Chief Scientist Wen Weijia, Chair Professor at HKUST and director of the Functional Hub at HKUST (Guangzhou), earned a PhD in condensed-matter physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and completed postdoctoral work at UCLA. He was included in the global top 2% scientists list.
The company has also won the HKUST Robotics Competition, first prize at HICOOL 2026, a place in Zhongguancun's Top 10 Frontier Technologies, the Shanghai regional championship of the HKUST Million-Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition, and the Jiangsu Entrepreneurship Competition.
Beyond robot platforms, MoSense is extending the same multimodal sensing technology into “embodied ergonomics.” Its CloudPress flexible sensor units embed sensors in everyday products such as pillows, mattresses, and chairs for continuous monitoring of pressure, heart rate, and sleep status.
Industry context: Chinese tactile-sensor startups are emerging in groups
MoSense is not alone in China. Over the past one to two years, companies including Percipio, Qianjue Robotics, Daimon Robotics, Bairui Zhixin, Tujian Technology, Moxian Technology, Juqiao Technology, and Sita Robotics have emerged across different approaches such as vision-based tactile sensing, Hall-effect sensing, flexible pressure sensors, fiber sensing, and photonic crystals. MoSense differentiates itself with “electromagnetic metamaterials + integrated magneto-photocuring.”
Its technology stack has three layers. MoSkin hardware collects data. The MoTact algorithm layer converts multi-axis magnetic-field signals into force, displacement, slip, and material information, with kHz-level high-speed sampling, sparse super-resolution, drift resistance, and magnetic-interference resistance. The MoWorld model layer feeds high-frequency tactile feedback into robot action models as a physical prior, reducing the gap between simulation and real-world deployment. The company says its whole-body tactile system is being advanced with several leading robot manufacturers, while the model layer is already being deployed jointly with leading ODM/OEM partners.
Nanjixiong's view
Over the past two years, 3D-printing discussions about robots have focused mainly on structural substitution: printed lightweight shells, grippers, and bones. MoSense is printing sensing functions into the structure as well. That is closer to the long-term promise of additive manufacturing than simply competing on print precision or material strength: a printed part can serve as a structure, a sensor, and a locally tunable mechanical system at once.
The investment also suggests a growing consensus. Sequoia, Hillhouse, Agibot, CDH, and CAS Star have all backed a company only five months old. Humanoid-robot competition is moving beyond whether robots can walk to whether they can safely interact with people and perform delicate work, both of which require whole-body tactile sensing. That helps explain why Chinese tactile-sensor startups are appearing in clusters this year.
Still, commercialization of tactile sensors is closely tied to mass production of humanoid robots. If robot manufacturers remain at small-batch pilot production, orders for robot skin will not grow either. Whether MoSense succeeds will depend in large part on which suppliers win mass-production orders from leading robot manufacturers in 2027.
AI-translated from an article by Beijixiong on Nanjixiong, originally published on 2026-11-09. Text and images retain the original source attribution. Read the original Chinese article
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