With robot makers LimX Dynamics and AGIBOT among its investors, MoSense has potential customers on its shareholder register before disclosing any revenue, customers or production capacity.
MoSense, a Shanghai startup that makes touch-sensing skin for robots, has raised an angel-plus round it described as RMB100 million-level (亿元级), meaning about RMB100 million or more, without disclosing the exact figure. Yicai reported the round on October 26, and TechNode followed on October 27, putting it at around RMB100 million.
CDH Investments and Oasis Capital led the round, with robot maker LimX Dynamics, Loongson Venture Capital, CAS Star, Hua Capital, Pudong Venture Capital Group and an unnamed leading Chinese embodied-AI company following, according to Jiemian. MoSense was founded in May 2026 and has now closed two funding rounds in about five months.
The company has not disclosed revenue, customers or orders, Gasgoo reported. Its investors are paying for a team and a technical bet: that humanoid robots will need touch across their whole bodies, not just in their fingertips.
Robot makers are among the backers
The investor list mixes financial firms with companies that build robots. In July, MoSense raised an angel round of tens of millions of yuan from HongShan, Hillhouse Ventures and AGIBOT, PEdaily reported. LimX Dynamics, a humanoid and legged-robot maker, joined in the new round, and Gasgoo reported that Houlang Capital acts as the company’s long-term exclusive financial adviser.
The money will go to research on whole-body touch products, hiring, computing power and a system for testing products in mass production, according to Gasgoo. MoSense is headquartered in Zhangjiang in Shanghai, has a research center in Qianhai in Shenzhen and opened a Shenzhen subsidiary in August.
The team came out of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where it won a robotics startup competition. Chief executive Yan Chaoxu holds a doctorate in microelectronics from HKUST, where he worked on high-frequency systems and multimodal sensing, and has experience taking microelectronic devices into mass production, while chief technology officer Zhou Hang holds a doctorate in robotics, Gasgoo reported, adding that Zhou previously worked on autonomous driving algorithms at auto supplier Desay SV. HKUST professor Wen Weijia is chief scientist.
The bet is on touch across the whole body
MoSense sells three layers. MoSkin is the hardware, an electronic skin that can cover a robot’s hands, limbs, torso and soles and sense force, temperature, slip, vibration and material. MoTact is software that fuses those signals, and MoWorld is a model that uses touch feedback to improve how robots move, TechNode reported. Gasgoo reported that MoSkin is built on what the company calls electromagnetic metamaterial mechanics, and that its MoSkin modules have gone through optimization for production.
The founders argue that vision and simulation are not enough. Gasgoo quoted the company as saying that world models can train robot control in simulation, but performance drops once they run on real machines. OFweek, a sensor-industry publication, reported that MoSense is in integration talks with several leading humanoid makers and is working with a major contract manufacturer on a combined hardware and model package, without naming them.
At the time of its first round, MoSense showed a smart foot sensor that measures pressure, friction, temperature, slip and ground material, and a transparent flexible skin that can cover a robot’s upper body, 36Kr reported.
Touch sensing is drawing a crowd of startups
MoSense is one of several Chinese tactile-sensing startups to raise money this year. EastFrontier has covered Sight Tower Robotics, and in August Shenzhen-based ModuTech raised a Pre-A round of tens of millions of yuan for sensors that combine camera-based and pressure-based touch, 36Kr reported. OFweek quoted an industry view that fingertip touch alone cannot support general-purpose embodied AI, and that whole-body touch could become a standard feature of the next generation of humanoid robots.
What separates MoSense is the whole-body approach and the presence of robot makers among its shareholders. The next disclosures to watch are a named humanoid customer, a sensor specification such as resolution or sampling rate, and evidence that MoSkin can be made at volume and at a price robot makers will accept.