Tuopu Group
About
About Tuopu Group
Tuopu Group develops and manufactures automotive systems including vibration control, lightweight body structures, chassis components, thermal management, air suspension, smart-cockpit hardware and intelligent-driving controls. Based in Ningbo, China, it combines component development, tooling and production with system-level integration for vehicle manufacturers.
Its Robot Actuator Division applies motor, mechanical and electronic-control engineering to robot components. The range includes linear and rotary actuators, dexterous-hand motors and assemblies, body structures, foot dampers and electronic flexible skin. During the first half of 2026, its linear actuators, rotary actuators and dexterous-hand motors entered small-batch delivery. Manufacturing capacity for other robot components was still being developed, and the first phase of the robotics-components production base was substantially complete.
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Zhejiang Zhaofeng Mechanical and Electronic
Inbound - robotic motion components - Zhejiang Zhaofeng Mechanical and Electronic supplies transmission to Tuopu Group
Source - UBTECH Robotics
Outbound - actuation and motion control - Tuopu Group and UBTECH are linked through humanoid robotics supply-chain activity
Source - XPeng Inc.
Outbound - actuation and motion control - Tuopu Group and XPeng are linked through humanoid robotics supply-chain activity
Source - Seres
Outbound - actuation and motion control - Tuopu Group and Seres are linked through humanoid robotics supply-chain activity
Source
Financials
- 601689.SS - SSE
Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-18 - Partnership - Tuopu Group partners with Ensuring Technology on tactile sensing for dexterous hands
The collaboration targets multidimensional tactile sensing for dexterous hands and connects Tuopu's actuator programme with Ensuring Technology's tactile hardware and software stack. Ensuring Technology says its sensors have reached automotive-grade reliability and designated batch-delivery stage with domestic and international dexterous-hand, robotics and data-collection customers. Tuopu Group took a strategic stake in Ensuring Technology in August, preceding the operating partnership.
Source - 2026-09-18 - Market Signal - Tesla Optimus audit reports draw mixed supplier responses
Tuopu said it had not received a new audit notice and noted that Tesla development personnel already worked at its Ningbo factory. Sanhua said it was developing robot joint actuators with a major customer but did not confirm a new audit; Joyson cited customer confidentiality.
Source - 2026-08-28 - Production Milestone - Tuopu Group reports small-batch deliveries of robot actuators and dexterous-hand motors
The first phase of its robot-components industrial base was substantially complete and ready for production. Production-capacity development continued for robot body structures, foot dampers and flexible electronic skin. Robot-actuator revenue reached RMB14.05 million in the first half of 2026, up 83.43% year on year.
Source - 2026-03-25 - Production Milestone - Tuopu Group reports robot actuator revenue as a standalone business line for the first time
Industry reporting described Tuopu separately disclosing robot actuator revenue for the first time in its 2025 results, recording RMB 13.59 million. The same article ties Tuopu to Tesla Optimus-related components and names a broader set of automotive and robotics customers referenced in trade coverage. The standalone revenue breakout is treated here as the primary hard milestone even where specific customer attributions rely on industry reporting rather than a single primary filing excerpt in this packet.
Source - 2025-04-22 - Capability - Tuopu Group discloses customer cooperation on linear actuators and rotary actuator development for robots
Coverage citing Tuopu's 2024 annual report says the company had already begun customer cooperation on linear actuators, moved into rotary actuator R&D, and sent samples of dexterous-hand motors to customers multiple times. The same reporting frames robot actuators as an emerging business line built from Tuopu's accumulated capabilities in motors, reduction mechanisms, sensors, drivers, and controllers. This is the clearest evidenced step from concept-level positioning into concrete customer development and sampling activity.
Source - 2024-01-26 - Market Signal - Tuopu Group completes non-public share issuance
Tuopu's 2023 annual report states the company completed the issuance of 60,726,104 A shares to specific parties on January 26, 2024. The transaction was a real capital-markets financing event even though the annual-report snippet available here does not expose the gross proceeds in the search extract. The round is kept without an inferred amount rather than guessing from secondary summaries.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Ensuring Technology
Embodied Intelligence Tactile Sensing Partner - Tuopu Group and Ensuring Technology are partnering on tactile sensing and embodied-intelligence hardware for dexterous hands.
Context
Comparable profiles
- Langxin Electric
comparable profile - Humanoid Actuator Supplier
- Ti5 Robot
comparable profile - Robot Joint Actuator Supplier
- Wuhu Bethel Automotive Safety Systems Co., Ltd.
comparable profile - Automotive Robotics Actuator Supplier
- CubeMars
comparable profile - Robot Joint Actuator Supplier
- Schaeffler AG
comparable profile - Robot Joint Actuator Supplier
- maxon
comparable profile - Robot Joint Actuator Supplier
- TC Drive
comparable profile - Robot Joint Actuator Supplier
- HLabs
comparable profile - Robot Joint Actuator Supplier
- HEBI Robotics
comparable profile - Robot Joint Actuator Supplier
- Harmonic Drive LLC
comparable profile - Robot Joint Actuator Supplier
- Hitec Commercial Solutions
comparable profile - Robot Joint Actuator Supplier
- Westmag
comparable profile - Robot Joint Actuator Supplier
Shared workflows
- SPG
workflow adjacency - Humanoid Joint Module Supply
- Eyou Robot Technology
workflow adjacency - Humanoid Joint Actuation
- Wanxiang Qianchao
workflow adjacency - Humanoid Joint Actuation
- HARIBIT
workflow adjacency - Humanoid Joint Actuation
- SigGear
workflow adjacency - Humanoid Joint Actuation
- Newstart Gear Motion
workflow adjacency - Humanoid Joint Actuation
- Lingyi iTech
workflow adjacency - Humanoid Joint Actuation
Context tags
- Humanoid actuator supplier - Peer Group - Tuopu supplies actuator modules and joint assemblies for humanoid robots.
- Integrated robot-joint actuator supplier - Peer Group - Official Tuopu material documents a robot-actuator division and rotary and linear actuator systems. https://www.tuopu.com/en/product_category/robot-actuator/
- Humanoid joint actuation - Workflow - Tuopu provides humanoid joint actuation systems.
- Actuator component supplier - Stack Layer - Tuopu supplies actuator components for robotic systems.
- Humanoid joint module supply - Workflow - Tuopu supplies humanoid joint modules and skeleton assemblies.
- Automotive robotics actuator supplier - Peer Group - Tuopu is an automotive supplier providing robotics actuator systems.
- Robotics motion-component supply layer - Stack Layer - Tuopu supplies motion components for robotics.
- Robotics hardware supply chain - Customer Environment - Tuopu serves the robotics hardware supply chain.
- Robot joint supply chain - Customer Environment - Tuopu serves the robot joint and humanoid supply chain.