PaXini Tech
Component · CN
Shenzhen tactile-sensor maker that moved a 6D Hall-array touch sensor into commercial volume, then built hands and a humanoid on top.
PaXini builds the tactile layer of embodied AI. Its core part is the PX-6AX sensing unit — a 6D Hall-array tactile sensor reading three-axis force plus torque, material, texture and temperature simultaneously, with repeatability under 0.5% and sensitivity to 0.01 N — and the ITPU/HAPTA architecture that turns those arrays into a signal a robot can act on. On top of the sensor it sells vision-tactile dexterous hands, the TORA-ONE humanoid with more than 2,000 tactile units across a 53-DOF body, and data-collection systems feeding an embodied-data marketplace. The strategic point is price: taking a research-grade tactile sensor from roughly RMB 100,000 to the hundred-yuan level is what moves touch from instrument to bill of materials.
Research mapping
Physical AI / Perception & Sensing (L7) / Component
Evidence boundary
Original analysis and independent corroboration remain under development. Commercial scale and durable technical advantage remain under review.
What makes it defensible
Chip-scale 6D Hall-array tactile sensing at a hundred-yuan unit cost: the semiconductor process and calibration are the barrier, and shipped volume is what makes the cost curve unreachable for lab spin-outs.
Position in the stack: Component bottleneck (pa-7): it sells the sensing layer into other companies' hands, grippers and humanoids, so it wins regardless of which humanoid OEM wins — shovels inside a category still choosing form factors.
Who buys it
Named customers: BYD (vehicle and component manufacturing lines)
Founding team
Xu Jincheng — Founder & CEO — PhD in engineering from Waseda University, trained in the robotics laboratory of Prof. Shigeki Sugano — the lab credited with the first anthropomorphic humanoid robots.
SourceFinancing detail
- Last round
- $145M Series B (Mar 2026)
Investors: BYD
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