Seeds | Tashan Tech Raises Hundreds of Millions, Holds 80% Tactile Sensor Market Share

Gasgoo Munich-Tashan Tech recently closed a Series B funding round worth hundreds of millions of yuan.

Investors in this round include Taiping Innovation, Joyson Electronics, AUX, Pengling Stock, Lavender Hill Capital Partners (LHCP), and Hongshan Capital, while existing backers Daoshi Technology and Binfu Capital increased their stakes. This marks Tashan Tech's third financing round in the past six months, and the company has already launched its Series C round.

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Tashan Tech focuses on AI-driven tactile sensing chips and application solutions, having built a full-stack product matrix spanning "sensors—solutions—training platforms," including digital-analog mixed AI tactile chips. In the humanoid robotics sector, the company provides tactile sensors and electronic skin solutions, with broad applications also in automotive, home appliances, and consumer electronics.

For Tashan Tech, tactile sensing is not merely a perceptive endpoint for robots, but the starting point for control. To truly integrate tactile perception into a robot's generalization capabilities, a complete technical ecosystem must be established—spanning chips, sensors, data, algorithms, and training paradigms.

To that end, Tashan Tech has established a closed loop ranging from sensors to training paradigms. This year, it launched two tactile data collection centers in Beijing's Shijingshan district and Qianjiang, Hubei. Built around a heterogeneous humanoid robot training framework, these centers create a universal training base compatible with robots across multiple brands, configurations, and technological routes—supporting everything from dexterous hands and mechanical grippers to single and dual-arm workstations.

Furthermore, Tashan Tech released the TS-Echo data sensing finger cot. This device supports body-free data collection, decoupling tactile information from specific robot morphologies, allowing data gathered from any robotic arm or dexterous hand to be migrated to heterogeneous bodies or actuators.

Tashan Tech has established deep commercial partnerships with over 180 clients across the domestic and global robotics supply chain. Monthly shipments of its tactile sensors have climbed into the tens of thousands, with first-half orders already quadrupling last year's total. The company continues to hold a market share of over 80%.

At the upcoming World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Tashan Tech is set to officially unveil its next-generation tactile sensing chip and publicly showcase its factory deployment solutions for the first time.

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