Stouching Robotics / 视塔机器人
About
About Stouching Robotics / 视塔机器人
Stouching Robotics was founded in Shenzhen in 2025 to improve tactile sensing and the collection of robot-interaction data. Its hardware portfolio includes flat and fingertip visuotactile sensors, flexible fabric pressure sensors and sensing grippers. Data-acquisition devices combine tactile, visual and pose information in handheld, wearable and portable configurations for recording manipulation demonstrations.
The company’s optical-material research includes flexible photonic crystals that translate pressure-induced deformation into colour changes. Its tactile hardware sits alongside edge computation and data tooling, including the open-source DataFlowing collection workflow. Founder and CEO Zhang Wei trained in a joint doctoral programme at Southern University of Science and Technology and City University of Hong Kong. The company’s October 2026 financing disclosure names Huawei Hubble, Shenzhen High-Tech Investment funds and Gaoxuan Investment, with proceeds directed to product iteration and commercial applications.
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Operations
- Reported Data Acquisition Order
Several hundred data-acquisition sets ordered - 2026-10-13 - The company received an order for several hundred data-acquisition equipment sets, with requested delivery before the October holiday. - source posture: Third Party Reported
Source
Funding
- 2026-10-13 - Angel - Stouching discloses financing with Huawei Hubble participation
Stouching Robotics disclosed completed financing involving Huawei Hubble, funds under Shenzhen High-Tech Investment and Gaoxuan Investment for tactile sensing and robot-manipulation technology. - source: chinaventure.com.cn
Investors
- Gaoxuan Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-10-13
- Huawei Hubble - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-10-13
- Shenzhen High-Tech Investment funds - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-10-13
Team
- Zhang Wei / 张伟 - Founder and CEO - Leads the development of tactile sensors, data-acquisition hardware and contact-feedback methods for robotic manipulation.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-10-13 - Funding - Stouching discloses financing with Huawei Hubble participation
Proceeds will support product iteration and commercialization across embodied AI, consumer electronics and industrial applications. Founder Zhang Wei trained in optical materials and robotics through a joint SUSTech–City University of Hong Kong doctoral programme. Its hardware and software work spans sensors, data-acquisition equipment, tactile models and manipulation control.
Source - 2026-05-26 - Demonstration - Stouching presents fingertip tactile sensing at muShanghai
A 5×5-centimetre decoding board fits inside a robot hand for local processing. The displayed portfolio covered flat, curved, fingertip, gripper and fabric sensing configurations. The company described bulk supply to unnamed Chinese dexterous-hand and gripper manufacturers.
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Context
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workflow adjacency - Robot Learning Data Collection
- XDOF
workflow adjacency - Robot Learning Data Collection
Context tags
- Tactile sensing - Capability - https://www.chinaventure.com.cn/news/114-20261013-393593.html — Founder explains pressure/contact-to-colour optical tactile sensing and robot manipulation applications.
- Robotics tactile sensors - Peer Group - https://www.stouching.com/products — Company supplies flat,curved and fabric tactile sensors for robotic contact feedback; does not build complete dexterous hands.
- Robot learning data collection - Workflow - https://github.com/Stouching-Robotics/DataFlowing — Official collector/processor tooling records,processes and exports demonstration data; company is not a foundation-model lab.