Monthly orders exceed 1,000 units, "Lingxin Qiaoshou" completes hundreds of millions of yuan in Series A+ financing | Exclusive report by Intelligence Emergence

Text by | Fu Chong

Edited by | Su Jianxun

Exclusive information obtained by Intelligent Emergence reveals that Lingxin Qiaoshou, a company specializing in embodied intelligent dexterous hands, has completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Series A+ financing.

This round of financing was jointly participated in by many well - known investment institutions, including Zhejiang Innovation Investment, Deqing Industrial Investment, Leju Robot, CDH Baifu, Jinghua New Materials, Dongfang Seiko, Aux, Huafu Investment, and Hongyi Fund.

This is the fourth round of financing completed by Lingxin Qiaoshou within eight months. The list of the company's investors includes several investment institutions and industrial capitals, such as Ant Group, Sequoia Seed Fund, Wankai New Materials, and Diodes Microelectronics.

As the shipment volume in the embodied intelligent industry continues to rise, as the provider of the "hands", a key component of robots, the commercialization of Lingxin Qiaoshou has also started to accelerate.

Zhou Yong, the founder and CTO of Lingxin Qiaoshou, revealed to Intelligent Emergence that the three major scenarios currently are scientific research, humanoid robots, and industrial scenarios. At present, the company's monthly orders have exceeded one thousand units, and its overseas customers already include technology companies such as Samsung and Siemens.

Since its establishment, Lingxin Qiaoshou has set the goal of "becoming the first company to produce one million dexterous hands" as an important objective.

"We believe that only when one million hands interact in the real world can we accumulate enough data to achieve one million skills on the hands. Therefore, on the premise of meeting the requirements of functionality and durability, Lingxin Qiaoshou's products cover a price range from a few thousand yuan to nearly one hundred thousand yuan, allowing users with different needs to have choices," said Zhou Yong.

△ Product display of Lingxin Qiaoshou using tea sets. Photo: Provided by the interviewee

Currently, Lingxin Qiaoshou's dexterous hand product matrix includes three mainstream driving technologies: tendon - driven, direct - drive, and linkage - driven, offering a wide range of product choices with 11 to 42 degrees of freedom.

The company's Linker Hand series of high - degree - of - freedom dexterous hands has become the world's first mass - produced high - degree - of - freedom dexterous hand series with a production volume of over one thousand units.

Among them, the representative product, Linker Hand L20, has 21 degrees of freedom and is available in both general and industrial versions. It can operate various human tools and is priced at 49,900 yuan. The most expensive product in the product line, Linker Hand L30, has 22 degrees of freedom and can perform operations such as precision assembly, flexible grasping, and surgical assistance. It is priced at 99,900 yuan.

Lingxin Qiaoshou's low - degree - of - freedom products lower the threshold for customers to purchase dexterous hands in terms of price.

The Linker Hand L6, a five - finger dexterous hand with 6 degrees of freedom launched for industrial scenarios, is priced at 19,900 yuan. The L6 uses the "brushless motor + ball screw" solution, which is rarely used in the industry. By eliminating the mechanical friction between the traditional brush and the commutator, the driving efficiency is increased to about 90%, and the measured service life of the screw exceeds one million times.

The cheapest product in the product line, Linker Hand O6, is priced at 6,666 yuan. It is a five - finger dexterous hand with 6 active degrees of freedom and is currently the lightest dexterous hand in the world. Its 370 - gram weight can significantly reduce the end - load. On this basis, the Linker Hand O6 also offers a Lite version with a subsidized price of 3,999 yuan.

To achieve a high cost - performance ratio, full - stack self - research has become a crucial step for Lingxin Qiaoshou.

Starting from the reducer level, Lingxin Qiaoshou conducts independent research and development. It has built a complete industrial chain, including materials, motors, and electric cylinders. Therefore, compared with external customization and procurement, Lingxin Qiaoshou has a greater cost advantage in core components.

However, for the cutting - edge industry of dexterous hands, shipment and delivery are recognized as a global challenge.

Zhou Yong told Intelligent Emergence that this problem is caused by reasons such as the need for running - in of the new dexterous hand production line, immature processes, and crowded production schedules due to concentrated orders. Currently, Lingxin Qiaoshou is the only company in the world that has achieved mass production of over one thousand high - degree - of - freedom dexterous hands. According to the data officially released by the company, its high - degree - of - freedom dexterous hands account for more than 80% of the global market share.

To match the production capacity with the growth rate of orders, Lingxin Qiaoshou has chosen to build its own production line to gain control over the core production capacity. The enterprise already has four subsidiary factories and collaborates with suppliers to achieve delivery.

Currently, Lingxin Qiaoshou's monthly production capacity has exceeded 4,000 units, and the goal is to deliver 50,000 to 100,000 dexterous hands within the next year.

However, hardware capabilities alone are not enough. In Zhou Yong's view, once technology giants with a trillion - dollar market value invest a large amount of resources in the dexterous hand track, they will crush other companies in terms of cost.

Therefore, Lingxin Qiaoshou must compete in full - stack capabilities and make arrangements at the software and ecosystem levels.

In the data collection stage, the company has launched a modular robot tele - operation system called Open TeleDex, which constructs an open - system that supports "any external device, any robotic arm, and any dexterous hand", reducing the system construction cost for customers in dexterous operation data collection.

At the same time, Lingxin Qiaoshou has established the LinkerSkillNet multi - modal data collection system, whose core goal is to build the world's largest database of human hand skills.

Zhou Yong explained the logic of this strategy: "The value of the human hand lies in its unparalleled generalization ability - it can operate tens of thousands of items, complete tens of thousands of operations, and use tens of thousands of tools. We want to build a huge'skill store' where various hand skills can be called. From a business model perspective, when giants enter the market in the future, if we have accumulated thousands of mature skills, they will be more inclined to choose cooperation rather than simply replicating the hardware."

In the training stage, Lingxin Qiaoshou adopts the real - machine reinforcement learning solution. It not only introduces end - force sensing to enable the mechanical fingers to sense the contact force but also extends dexterous operation training to non - force - controlled robotic arms and improves the automation level of model training.

This enables Lingxin Qiaoshou to achieve a demonstration success rate of nearly 100% in tasks such as screwing and plugging in USB interfaces.

In terms of industrial chain coordination, Lingxin Qiaoshou has jointly launched the "Bailing Plan" with Chengkai Fund. That is, by establishing the "Lingcheng Future Embodied Intelligent Industry Investment Fund for Dexterous Hands", it provides a package of support from capital to industrial resources for innovative enterprises in the upstream and downstream supply chains of dexterous hands, model algorithms, and vertical - scenario application solutions.

At the same time, based on the representative product Linker Hand L20, Lingxin Qiaoshou has proposed a plan called "Lingchuang Qiaojie". This plan deploys robots equipped with Lingxin Qiaoshou's dexterous hands on the production line. Through "using dexterous hands to produce dexterous hands", the robots can continuously learn in actual operations and achieve autonomous evolution.

△ Schematic diagram of "Lingchuang Qiaojie". Photo: Provided by the interviewee

In terms of the team, among the core members leading Lingxin Qiaoshou in the above - mentioned technological exploration, Zhou Yong, the CTO, joined Lenovo Research Institute in 2007 and has 15 years of combined experience in the Internet and robotics fields.

Cao Gang, the person in charge of algorithm and model training, is a researcher, the person in charge of a major project of the national "New Generation Artificial Intelligence", an expert of the General Expert Group of the National New Generation Artificial Intelligence Social Experiment, and has been included in the Beijing Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talent Project. He has established a large - scale cross - institutional R & D team for large models and has incubated and invested in enterprises such as Zhipu AI, Galaxy Universal, Mianbi Intelligence, Shenyan Technology, LibLibAI, and Xiaoyu Technology.