Secured two rounds of significant financing within 50 days! Pasini raises hundreds of millions of yuan again to accelerate the construction of core technologies for embodied intelligence.
Yingke has learned that Pacini Perception Technology, a leading enterprise in tactile perception and embodied intelligence (hereinafter referred to as "Pacini"), has recently completed a new round of Series A financing. This round of investment was jointly made by multiple well - known institutions, including TCL Venture Capital, Yida Capital, Shangqi Capital, Cornerstone Capital, SenseTime Guoxiang, CITIC CLSA, Hunan Caixin Industrial Fund, and Junxi Capital. The cumulative financing amount reached hundreds of millions of RMB. Gengxin Capital China served as the exclusive strategic financial advisor. The funds raised in this round will be mainly used for the iteration of core tactile perception technologies, large - scale collection of multi - modal data for embodied intelligence, research and development of large - scale embodied intelligence models, and expansion of production lines, fully supporting Pacini's development strategy in the next stage.
It is worth noting that this financing is the second round of financing completed by Pacini within nearly two months after the strategic investment from BYD, a giant in the new energy vehicle industry.
Judging from the composition of investors, the lineup of investors in this round is strong and diverse. It not only includes industrial capital from multiple key fields such as smart terminal giants, leading enterprises in the automotive field, leading artificial intelligence companies, and high - end chip manufacturers, but also several large - scale well - known financial investment institutions. The rush of numerous industries and capitals to invest fully confirms the huge potential of Pacini's tactile sensing technology in multiple high - end application scenarios, and also highlights the high recognition and firm confidence of leading capitals in its overall strategic layout in the frontier field of embodied intelligence.
Pacini focuses on 6D Hall array - based multi - dimensional tactile perception and core technologies of embodied intelligence. It is one of the very few enterprises globally that can achieve independent control of high - precision multi - dimensional tactile sensors and large - scale reliable mass production, with deep technological barriers. Its founding team is from the Kanno Laboratory of Waseda University in Japan. Relying on its profound accumulation in multi - dimensional tactile sensing technology, the multi - dimensional tactile sensor independently developed by Pacini has broken through the "bottleneck" technology in China. It has 15 rich sensing dimensions and can endow robots with human - like tactile perception capabilities. Based on this core technology, Pacini has built a globally leading "sensor - dexterous hand - humanoid robot" multi - dimensional tactile product matrix and created a full - stack technology system from hardware packaging, data collection, algorithm integration to VTLA embodied intelligence model construction. Its products have been applied in multiple core scenarios such as 3C precision assembly, automotive production lines, flexible logistics sorting, subway security checks, medical and health care, and supermarket retail.
As the core entrance for perceiving the physical world and interacting with the environment in the embodied intelligence system, Pacini's multi - dimensional array tactile sensor has become the only flexible mechanical sensor with the ability to obtain highly consistent physical interaction data due to its excellent performance. Relying on this core technological barrier, Pacini has proactively laid out the multi - modal physical interaction dataset MotionSharing DB with a scarce tactile modality. Through high - precision synchronous collection, new perspective synthesis, and "vision - touch" alignment technology, this dataset ensures its cross - ontology generalization ability. Therefore, Pacini's MotionSharing DB can serve many robots with different configurations with unprecedented massive data and high tactile consistency, and continuously provide long - term value for the development and implementation of large - scale embodied intelligence models. Based on MotionSharing DB, the rapidly developing large - scale embodied intelligence models can quickly reach the "last mile" of implementation in the physical world with the help of the highly consistent tactile dataset. Pacini's independently developed TacFlow Engine large - scale model will also be the first technological example to apply this dataset and create the VTLA embodied intelligence large - scale model, further enhancing the generalization ability of embodied intelligence across tasks and scenarios.
The completion of this financing marks that while consolidating its leading position in tactile sensing, Pacini has officially accelerated its strategic layout in the fields of embodied intelligence datasets and embodied intelligence models, and is fully committed to building full - stack technological capabilities for embodied intelligence. This key strategic layout aims to establish a key closed - loop of "high - precision, multi - dimensional physical perception (tactile sensors) - massive high - quality, multi - modal data accumulation (datasets) - generalized intelligent decision - making and control (large - scale embodied intelligence models)", endowing robots and their intelligent systems with deeper environmental understanding, autonomous learning, and dexterous operation capabilities, providing stronger technological support and innovation impetus for future intelligent applications, and promoting the rapid development of the enterprise in the frontier field of embodied intelligence.
According to relevant sources, Pacini has built an ultra - large - scale embodied intelligence data collection factory in Tianjin. Relying on its globally leading tactile technology and profound accumulation in the field of embodied intelligence, Pacini is expected to become a leading force in the global embodied intelligence data field in terms of data collection efficiency, scale, and quality. The intensive injection of heavy - weight industrial capital in this round will undoubtedly boost Pacini's rapid rise, empower the robot industry and a broader wave of intelligent upgrades, and contribute extremely important strength to the development of the global embodied intelligence field.
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