Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (Leiphone · Aug 11, 2026)

Ant Group Leads Daimon Robotics Funding for Tactile Tech

KEY FACTS

On August 11, 2026, Daimon Robotics raised several hundred million yuan in a funding round led by Ant Group.
This is Ant Group's first investment in the tactile sensing sector, following its earlier backing of several embodied intelligence companies.
Daimon Robotics released Daimon-TWM, the world's first tactile-anchored world model.
The model achieved an on-site success rate of 95% in tasks demonstrated at WAIC.
Daimon Robotics' visuotactile sensors have cumulatively served more than 200 customers worldwide.

KEY DATA

several hundred million yuanFunding size

95%WAIC demo success rate

4.4 millionOpen-source data downloads

1,000 unitsChina Mobile initial device deployment

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

Ant Group's entry into the tactile sensing sector signals that competition in embodied intelligence is shifting from vision-dominated approaches to closed-loop multimodal perception. Daimon Robotics builds its moat through 'hardware shipments + data infrastructure + model deployment,' and its ten-thousand-unit sensor deliveries and validation by leading customers show that tactile technology is crossing the laboratory stage to become a key variable in solving robots' fine manipulation challenges, with industrial capital collaboration accelerating the commercialization of physical AI.

Source: Leiphone report