{"rows":[{"company":"Daimon Robotics","hq_country":"China","website":"https://www.dmrobot.com/","status":"active","what_it_builds":"Shenzhen-based, HKUST-incubated maker of vision-based tactile sensors, tactile dexterous hands, teleoperation data-acquisition systems and tactile datasets/models for embodied AI; it has shown the Sparky1 humanoid, teleoperated via its DM-EXton exoskeleton, for fine manipulation in manufacturing, logistics and services. Its core business is tactile infrastructure rather than humanoid sales.","what_it_builds_source":"https://www.dmrobot.com/en/about.html","founded_year":"2023","founded_source":"https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3439402583084424","funding_usd":"41463841","funding_basis":"disclosed rounds","funding_source":"https://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/article/marketersmedia-2025-8-18-daimon-robotics-secures-over-rmb-100-million-in-angel-round-financing-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-tactile-dexterity-in-robotics","funding_note":"Summed: 2023-09-13 Angel, 'hundred millions' CNY counted as CNY100M (press-reported, equalocean.com/news/2023091320199-daimon-robotics-completed-angel-round-hundred-millions-cny) at ~7.28 CNY/USD = $13.74M; 2025-08-18 Angel++, over CNY100M counted as 100M (company release, funding_source URL) at ~7.18 = $13.93M; 2026-06-04 Series A CNY100M = $13.8M at source rate (tmtpost.com/news/8014668). Rates for first two are approximate announcement-date rates. Excluded: Angel+ and other earlier rounds (no amount); late-2025 China Mobile strategic round (amount not disclosed in a page I could open); 2026-08-11 Ant Group strategic round, 'several hundred million yuan' (no exact amount, dmrobot.com/en/news/34.html). No valuation reported.","latest_funding_date":"2026-06-04","valuation_usd":null,"latest_model":"Sparky1","latest_model_year":"2025","latest_model_source":"https://www2.yicaiglobal.com/flashdetail/100452510008005","units_shipped":null,"units_shipped_source":null,"units_shipped_note":"No published count of humanoid units delivered. Reported shipments (10,000-piece level, thousands of units) refer to vision-tactile sensors, not humanoids.","as_of":"2026-11-03"}],"sources":["https://www.dmrobot.com/en/about.html","https://www.dmrobot.com/en/news/34.html","https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3439402583084424","https://equalocean.com/news/2023091320199-daimon-robotics-completed-angel-round-hundred-millions-cny","https://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/article/marketersmedia-2025-8-18-daimon-robotics-secures-over-rmb-100-million-in-angel-round-financing-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-tactile-dexterity-in-robotics","https://chatgpt.tmtpost.com/news/8014668","https://www2.yicaiglobal.com/flashdetail/100452510008005"]}