Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (TMTPost · Jul 23, 2026)

Yimu Tech Raises Over ¥1B Series E at ¥10B Valuation

KEY FACTS

  • On July 18, tactile sensor maker Yimu Tech closed a Series E round of over ¥1 billion.
  • The company's post-money valuation surpassed ¥10 billion, with backing from several top-tier funds and industrial investors.
  • Its visuotactile sensor is compressed to under 3 millimeters thick, with a force resolution of 0.005N.
  • It is building embodied intelligence infrastructure spanning data collection to multimodal large-model training.

KEY DATA

Over ¥1BFunding amount
¥10BPost-money valuation
<3mmSensor thickness
0.005NForce resolution

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

Capital is betting heavily on the tactile track, marking a shift in the focal point of embodied intelligence competition from the "brain" to the "fingertips." Visual data has a ceiling due to its lack of physical ground truth, making high-precision touch a key bottleneck for robot deployment. Yimu Tech is attempting to decouple standardized hardware from algorithms to build a data flywheel akin to the internet's underlying layer, signaling that the industry is moving from single-point technological breakthroughs to a new phase of infrastructure-style division of labor.

Source: TMTPost report