Recently, Beijing Tashan Technology Co., Ltd. ("Tashan Technology" or "the Company") announced that it has consecutively completed two rounds of financing, Series A3 and Series A4, within one quarter, raising hundreds of millions of RMB. The investors include Nanjing Innovation Investment Group, CITICS Jinshi Investment, CITICS Securities Investment, GF Xinde, Cornerstone Pujiang, Binfu Capital, Dow Technology, Zhejiang Innovation Investment, 360 Hongxin Fund, Keli Sensing, Rising Sun Electronics, Zonghuihe Venture Capital, Shangcheng Investment, etc. Tashan Technology stated that the funds raised will be mainly used for three key directions: first, tackling the multi-dimensional fusion perception technology of sensors; second, expanding rigid-demand scenarios such as services and precision assembly; third, expanding the simulation scenario library of the training platform.

Founded in 2017, Tashan Technology is a developer focusing on artificial intelligence tactile perception technology and a full set of application solutions. Its product line covers a complete chain from core sensors and algorithm platforms to simulation systems, including TS-F fingertip tactile sensors, TS-E manipulator tactile sensors, TS-V visual-tactile fusion training platform, TS-VT visual-tactile fusion training platform (data collection), and tactile simulation products (TS-R tactile perception service robot). As a leading enterprise in tactile perception technology established by core teams from Tsinghua University and the University of Manchester, the company has developed the world's first digital-analog hybrid AI tactile chip, which is also the first distributed brain-inspired industrial application chip based on SNN (Spiking Neural Network). The design of this chip enables tactile sensors not only to achieve high-precision three-dimensional force perception and material recognition, but also dynamic collaborative perception and dynamic collaborative control. Meanwhile, the TS-V visual-tactile fusion training platform developed by the company breaks through the industry pain points of "lack of data and high training costs". By infinitely generating tactile data through virtual "digital twins", it has become one of the largest tactile datasets in China.

The relevant person in charge of the Fourth Investment Department of Nanjing Innovation Investment Group said that tactile sensors are one of the key "bottleneck" technologies that China urgently needs to break through. In the process of robots moving towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), "perception" and "manipulation" constitute two indispensable core foundations. Through continuous evolution, this technology will realize the transformation from single-modal perception to multi-dimensional perception fusion, from limited scenario operation to cross-scenario general intelligence, and from independent individual operation to multi-agent collaborative linkage, ultimately building a new form of artificial general intelligence that is deeply integrated into the physical world, seamlessly connected between virtual and real, and enables natural human-machine interaction. The investment in Tashan Technology by Nanjing Innovation Investment Group this time is precisely based on its full-stack independent R&D capabilities in tactile chips, tactile sensors and algorithm models, as well as its unique technical advantages in breaking through the "tactile bottleneck" in embodied intelligence. It is hoped that through this investment, Tashan Technology will continue to consolidate its leading position in the field of tactile sensors, and help the industry overcome the key technical difficulties of robot dexterous operation at an early date.