Recently, Pacini Perception Technology (Shenzhen) Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as “Pacini”) has continuously completed tens of millions of yuan of Pre-A and additional round of financing, this round of leading investors for Yingfutec, and the additional round for Guangyue Investment. The financing will mainly be used to expand the product system, touch sensor products, dexterous hands and humanoid robot research and development.

According to the official website, Pacini was founded on June 29, 2021, committed to the development of full-scene application of haptic digitization and touch technology, to provide tactile digital value for a wide range of scenarios such as robot automation, aerospace, entertainment and consumption. The widespread deployment of haptic sensors in advanced manufacturing, collaborative robots and other scenarios will significantly improve the robot’s perception ability and human-computer interaction and cooperation ability, and is the underlying core component linking the physical world and the human haptic perception system. At the same time, tactile sensors have huge application prospects in automotive intelligent manufacturing, wearable devices, virtual remote collaboration, precision medical treatment and so on.

In industrial applications, tactile sensor arrays are often used in man-machine safety and mechanical grippers. In human-robot interaction tasks, tactile perception information can provide contact information between robots and humans and measure the contact force to avoid collision between robots and humans. When grasping an object, the clamp equipped with a tactile sensor can not only perceive the physical information such as the force, roughness and texture of the object, but also select the most reasonable direction and force to complete the gripping action by analyzing these physical information. Such characteristics make the tactile manipulator have the advantages of fine, agile and safe in the scenes of precision assembly and surface detection.

According to reports, the company’s founder and CEO Dr. Xu Jincheng comes from the Robotics Laboratory of Waseda University in Japan, which is a key research and development center for humanoid robots. He has more than 8 years of experience in the research and development of humanoid robots and high-precision tactile sensors. He has extensive research and engineering experience in human mechanical force perception mechanisms, mechanics and sensor-related numerical algorithms/machine learning algorithms. COO Nie Xianru graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, founded the project has won the head company merger and acquisition, senior technology industry operation experience. Company members have senior perception and robot automation technology, from the British Imperial College, Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics first-class universities, has served as the industry’s well-known technology companies senior leaders, with an average of more than 10 years of industry experience.

Xu Jincheng, founder and CEO of Pacini, said that robots and automation equipment have always lacked perfect tactile sensing ability, and only relying on multi-dimensional tactile sensors can improve the perception of the environment of robots and equipment to a greater extent, so that they can better interact with the physical world and assist humans to perform more important tasks.