The leading provider of robotic force sensors secures hundreds of millions in new financing, with SAIC, SMIC and others rushing to enter the market.
Hard Krueger learned that recently, BluePoint Touch, a six-dimensional force sensor enterprise, announced the completion of hundreds of millions of RMB in Series C++ financing. This round was led by SAIC Financial Holding and Shangqi Capital, and followed by SMIC Juyuan, Zhengda Robotics, and Houwei Capital. The funds from this round of financing will be mainly used for new product R & D, digital and intelligent production construction, and global market expansion.
BluePoint Touch completed three rounds of financing in the hundreds of millions of yuan level within half a year. This round of financing is only one month after the previous Series C+ financing. The current shareholder lineup includes Sequoia China, Puquan Capital under CATL, Zhiyuan Robotics, Yinhe General, SAIC-affiliated capital, SMIC industrial capital and other forces.
The in - depth development of the investors in this round of financing in the industrial chain direction is worthy of attention. SAIC-affiliated capital (SAIC Financial Holding and Shangqi Capital) represents the automobile manufacturing scenario, SMIC Juyuan represents high - end semiconductor manufacturing, and Houwei Capital brings extensive consumer and media ecological resources - the three, together with CATL (power battery), Zhiyuan Robotics, and Yinhe General (leading in the complete machine) which invested in the previous round, form a full - chain coverage from core components to terminal applications.
This means that BluePoint Touch's force - control sensors will be deployed in batches in industrial production scenarios such as automobiles and new - energy batteries first. Industrial capital not only brings funds but also brings definite mass - production orders and application scenarios.
Liu Wuyue, the founder of BluePoint Touch, once worked at the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The core team comes from scientific research institutions such as the University of Science and Technology of China, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Wang Tianmiao, the honorary director of the Robotics Institute of Beihang University, serves as a director. Its core products are six - dimensional force sensors and joint torque sensors, with an accuracy of 0.1% FS, a response frequency of over 10 kHz, and an anti - overload capacity of 500%, reaching the international top level and breaking the decades - long technological monopoly of overseas manufacturers.
While robot manufacturers are still chasing larger parameters of AI large models, equipping robots with a more delicate "nervous system" has become the main theme of the new round of financing. Since 2026, the total financing in the field of embodied intelligence has exceeded 34.5 billion yuan. Capital is deeply penetrating from the complete machine to the core component field.
BluePoint Touch's six - dimensional sensors have been applied to core products
BluePoint Touch's aerospace - level technical path has also been successfully migrated to humanoid robots. Taking the humanoid robots with accelerated mass production currently as an example, each unit needs to be equipped with 4 six - dimensional force sensors and 28 joint torque sensors. The six - dimensional force sensors are distributed on the wrists and ankles, responsible for precise force control and dynamic balance respectively; the joint torque sensors are all over the body, realizing compliant force control and compensating for joint clearance errors. Not long ago, the robot that refreshed the human record on the half - marathon track was installed with BluePoint Touch's force - control sensors, and its millisecond - level posture feedback of the perception network enables it to run over long distances without falling.
Its market advantage in humanoid robots is also expanding. The "2025 Market Research Report on Six - Dimensional Force Sensors for Chinese Humanoid Robots" by Rui Industry MIR shows that BluePoint Touch's market share in 2024 was about 62%. By 2025, according to "GGII: 2025 Market Analysis Report on Six - Dimensional Force Sensors for Chinese Humanoid Robots", BluePoint Touch's market share in 2025 has reached 72.6%, ranking first in the industry. Currently, BluePoint Touch's joint force sensors account for over 95% of the domestic shipments. The company's revenue has doubled for three consecutive years and it has achieved profitability, becoming the absolute leader in the domestic robot force sensor field.
Core product system
In terms of production capacity, BluePoint Touch has built a self - owned production base of over 10,000 square meters in Guangdong. Currently, it has the delivery capacity of producing 1 million sets of joint force sensors and 200,000 sets of end - six - dimensional force sensors annually. This production capacity layout precisely targets the release rhythm of robot mass orders after 2026, providing supply - chain guarantee of key components for the large - scale mass production of downstream complete machine manufacturers.
Next, BluePoint Touch will invest more energy in the R & D of the next - generation high - precision and high - integration force - control sensors and the exploration of overseas markets, aiming to achieve the goal of making BluePoint - made robot force sensors globally and enabling force - control robots to empower all industries.
Investors' Views:
The investment teams of SAIC Financial Holdings and Shangqi Capital stated: The six-dimensional force sensor of BluePoint Touch has reached a leading level in terms of accuracy, response speed, and reliability. We are optimistic about its broad prospects in enabling the intelligent manufacturing upgrade of automotive factories.
The person in charge of investment at SMIC Capital said: Force sensors are the core nodes for robots to interact with the physical world. BlueDot Touch has full-stack self-developed capabilities ranging from elastomer design, hardware circuits to structural decoupling algorithms, which are highly synergistic with SMIC Capital's layout in the high-end semiconductor manufacturing field. We look forward to the strong alliance between the two sides in the era of robotics to achieve win-win results.
The person in charge of the Zhengda Robot project said: The evolution of embodied intelligence cannot be separated from precise force feedback. The force control technology of BlueDot Touch fills the key gap for robots from "seeing" to "touching". Zhengda Robot has deeply deployed in the cutting - edge technology fields including embodied intelligence. We believe that the six - axis force sensor will become the standard configuration for the next - generation intelligent robots. We look forward to collaborating with BlueDot Touch to break through the "last centimeter" of robots' flexible operations with precise force feedback.