Recently, Kunwei (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Kunwei Technology"), a leading enterprise in the domestic high-end six-axis force sensor field, announced the completion of a Series B++ funding of over 100 million RMB. This round of funding was co-led by Financial Street Capital and Huatai Zijin, with strategic support from Foxconn and Tianqi Shares, and deep participation from CITIC Jinshi and CICC Capital. The funds will be primarily used for core technology iteration, application technology development, intelligent capacity expansion, high-end talent team building, and domestic and overseas market expansion.
Kunwei Technology will take this opportunity to continuously consolidate its technical barriers and market leadership in the field of high-precision, high-stability, and miniaturized six-axis force sensors, accelerating the large-scale implementation of domestic high-end force sensing technologies.
Notably, this is the second 100-million-RMB funding round completed by Kunwei within two months since 2026. The intensive capital injection not only reflects capital market's high recognition of the certain value in the domestic high-end force sensing track but also further verifies Kunwei Technology's leading position and industrialization capabilities in the six-axis force sensor field.
Meanwhile, the participation of multiple industrial capitals is expected to help Kunwei Technology further broaden market channels, enrich application scenarios, and accelerate its global layout process.
01. From Technical Verification to Large-Scale Implementation, Six-Axis Force Sensors Enter a Golden Cycle
In 2026, the humanoid robot industry is transitioning from technical verification to large-scale mass production. From the continuous iteration of Tesla's Optimus to the accelerated commercial implementation by domestic enterprises such as UBTECH, Zhiyuan Robotics, and Galbot, embodied AI has become one of the most highly attended tracks in the capital market and manufacturing industry. As the "tactile nerve" of robots and the core component of force control in high-end equipment, six-axis force sensors are a core rigid demand for achieving flexible robot interaction, precision assembly, and intelligent adaptive operations. They also represent a key shortboard track for domestic substitution in domestic high-end intelligent manufacturing.
According to statistics from MIR Consulting, the market size of China's six-axis force sensors exceeded 300 million RMB in 2025.
Market Size of China's Six-Axis Force Sensors from 2020 to 2028 (Unit: Million RMB)
Data Source: "2026 China Six-Axis Force Sensor Industry Development White Paper"
As humanoid robots accelerate towards large-scale implementation and AI technology drives the continuous growth of flexible manufacturing demand, the six-axis force sensor market is ushering in a new round of development opportunities. In the future, along with the continuous expansion of downstream application scenarios, the market space is expected to be further opened up. Market expansion brings not only demand growth but also the reconstruction of the industry competition pattern. In this process, enterprises with technical barriers, mass production capabilities, and first-mover market advantages will gain more market share and gradually become core nodes for value aggregation in the industrial chain.
02. Over 50% Market Share, Consolidating Industry Leadership
Kunwei Technology is one of the representatives that has grown under this trend.
Since its establishment in 2018, Kunwei has continuously deepened its focus on the force control perception track for collaborative robots, industrial robots, and humanoid robots. Relying on accumulated aerospace technology innovation, profound technical R&D capabilities, and stable large-scale delivery capabilities, it has gradually grown into a leading enterprise in the domestic six-axis force sensor field.
Landscape of China's Six-Axis Force Sensor Suppliers in the Intelligent Robot Field in 2025 (Unit: Units, %)
Data Source: "2026 China Six-Axis Force Sensor Industry Development White Paper"
According to data from MIR Consulting's "2026 Six-Axis Force Sensor Industry Development White Paper", in 2025, Kunwei Technology's shipment share of six-axis force sensors in the intelligent robot field (humanoid robots + collaborative robots) reached 53%, firmly ranking first in the industry. Its market leadership continues to expand, making it the only domestic high-end force control sensing enterprise to achieve large-scale commercial implementation in China.
Behind the leading market share is the product system advantage and customer ecosystem advantage that Kunwei Technology has built around the field of robot force control perception over the long term.
Currently, Kunwei Technology has formed a complete multi-dimensional force sensor product system covering six-axis force sensors, joint torque sensors, one-dimensional force sensors, 3D motion biomechanical platforms, industrial scales, and industrial instruments. In response to the large-scale mass production needs of intelligent robots, the company has further developed five major six-axis force product series: the HPS high-performance series, HRS humanoid robot series, KWR precision series, CSR standard series, and ELS economic series. These can not only meet the needs of leading customers for high-precision and high-reliability force control perception solutions but also adapt to standardized mass production and high cost-performance application scenarios, providing diversified solutions for customers at different levels. Relying on a comprehensive product layout and continuously iterating technical capabilities, Kunwei Technology has provided products and solutions for over 300 well-known enterprises and research institutes, forming a broad customer base covering robots, high-end manufacturing, scientific research testing, medical rehabilitation, and aerospace. The continuously expanding customer ecosystem has also driven the continuous improvement of the company's market performance.
In 2025, Kunwei Technology's revenue achieved a doubling, maintaining a high-speed development trend over the past three years. With leading product performance, stable batch delivery capabilities, and deep scenario adaptation advantages, Kunwei Technology has become a core leading supplier in the domestic robot industry.
In the humanoid robot field, the company has entered leading enterprises such as UBTECH, Zhiyuan Robotics, Galbot, Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, Zhipingfang, and Xinghaitu, with products widely applied to core joints such as robot wrists and ankles. In the collaborative robot field, its products cover over 70% of mainstream leading domestic manufacturers, continuously providing standardized and customized force control sensing solutions for leading companies such as Dobot, Huayan, ROKAE, AUBO, JAKA, Elite Robot, and FAIRINO, firmly holding a core position in the collaborative robot supply chain. In the industrial robot and high-end intelligent manufacturing field, the company's products have also successfully entered the high-end manufacturing supply chains of top enterprises such as Inovance, Estun, Efort, Xiaomi, Sanhua, Bozhon, Foxconn, and BYD, widely landing in high-precision industrial scenarios such as 3C precision assembly, flexible grinding of automotive parts, and intelligent assembly.
03. Building a Foundation with Technology, Forging a Moat with Hardcore Strength
From scientific research verification to large-scale mass production, and from innovative robot applications to high-end manufacturing implementation, extensive market recognition has become the most direct reflection of testing an enterprise's technical strength and industrialization capabilities. Behind the market leadership essentially lies the technical barriers formed by long-term accumulation.
Kunwei's technical genes originate from its profound aerospace background. The founding team of Kunwei all comes from national-level aerospace research institutes, possessing over 20 years of R&D and application experience in six-axis force sensors. More importantly, as a core drafting unit of the national standard "GB/T 43199-2023 Test Specification for Multi-Dimensional Force/Torque Sensors of Robots", Kunwei Technology deeply participates in the drafting, compilation, and implementation of top-level standards in the domestic multi-dimensional force sensor industry, leading and participating in the construction of multiple core industry specifications.
Meanwhile, as the only private enterprise in China with the R&D capability for self-developed high-precision automated six-axis combined loading calibration equipment and calibration systems, Kunwei has thoroughly broken the long-term monopoly of overseas enterprises in high-end six-axis force calibration equipment and calibration algorithms. Relying on exclusive calibration hardware advantages, it has formed industry-leading autonomous structural decoupling and algorithm decoupling capabilities, building a dual technical barrier of "hardware calibration + software algorithms".
Currently, the maximum repeatability of Kunwei Technology's six-axis force sensor products reaches 0.1% FS, and the total accuracy (including crosstalk) reaches 0.3% FS, with core performance indicators reaching international advanced levels.
In addition, Kunwei Technology is also one of the earliest enterprises in China to invest in R&D and mass production of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) strain gauges and their curing processes. MEMS is a silicon-based strain gauge. Based on this process, the miniaturization of the strain gauge's size can be realized, with dimensions as small as 0.5 mm in length and 0.2 mm in width. The sensitivity of MEMS process strain gauges is more than 20 times higher than that of metal strain gauges, thus simultaneously improving the sensor's overload capacity and signal-to-noise ratio. The application of MEMS strain gauge technology can better meet the mass production needs of lightweight, high integration, and high reliability for humanoid robots, laying an important foundation for the company to continuously consolidate its competitive advantage in the era of embodied AI.
04. Global Strategy: Fully Automated Production Line Planning + Global Expansion
If technological innovation determines how far an enterprise can go, then industrialization capabilities and global layout determine how large it can become. As the humanoid robot industry gradually moves towards the stage of large-scale mass production, the competition in the six-axis force sensor industry is also evolving from single technology competition to comprehensive competition in technology, capacity, quality systems, and global service capabilities.
"There are no shortcuts in high-end sensing technology; only long-term deep cultivation and continuous R&D breakthroughs can break through technical boundaries," said Xiong Lin, founder of Kunwei Technology. Since its establishment, Kunwei has always taken breaking overseas technology monopolies and building an independent and controllable domestic force sensing industrial chain as its mission, adhering to long-termism and deep technical cultivation, and promoting the breakthrough of China's intelligent industry to the high-end with highly reliable products and continuous technology iteration.
At the capacity level, currently, Kunwei Technology's annual production capacity for six-axis force sensors has reached 60,000 units, and it is expected to achieve an annual production capacity of 120,000 units by the end of 2026, with a daily production capacity of joint torque sensors exceeding 2,000 units. As embodied AI and the robot industry enter the stage of large-scale implementation, downstream demand continues to grow. Kunwei stated that in the future, it will fully promote the upgrading and expansion of intelligent, standardized, and automated mass production lines, build a comprehensive precision testing, full-dimensional reliability verification, and quality control system, systematically solve the core bottlenecks of insufficient capacity and unstable delivery of high-end force sensors in the industry, and comprehensively match the explosive mass production demand downstream of humanoid robots and high-end industrial intelligent manufacturing, providing solid capacity support for the large-scale domestic substitution of high-end force control sensing.
In terms of global layout, Kunwei Technology is moving from the stage of "domestic substitution" to "global market competition". In the future, the company will adhere to a dual expansion strategy of domestic and overseas markets, continuously deepening its focus on high-quality domestic customers in leading robots, high-end manufacturing, aerospace, and medical research, and deepening long-term strategic cooperation; at the same time, it will accelerate its layout in overseas high-end markets, continuously expand diversified high-end application scenarios, build a global sales and service system, improve omni-channel market layout, steadily build the global brand influence of domestic high-end force sensing, and accelerate global market expansion.
Global competition requires not only technical strength and market capabilities but also relies heavily on complete quality systems and international qualification support. Currently, Kunwei Technology's modernized factory has passed multiple quality management system certifications, and relying on a highly localized supply chain system, it achieves product batch consistency and rapid delivery capabilities. These certification systems and manufacturing capabilities together constitute an important trust foundation for Kunwei Technology to participate in global market competition.
As a key strategic round for the company's industrialization and scale expansion, the funds raised in this round will also be primarily invested in technology R&D and talent system construction.
At the technology R&D level, the company will continuously increase investment in the R&D iteration of the new generation of high-precision, miniaturized, and high-bandwidth six-axis force sensors, continuously optimize autonomous decoupling algorithms and core intelligent calibration technologies, focus on tackling key industry technical difficulties such as extreme working condition environment adaptation, ultra-miniaturized integration, and fully automatic intelligent calibration, continuously widen the technological generation gap, consolidate the full-chain autonomous and controllable technical barriers, and continuously benchmark and surpass the technical level of international first-tier brands.
At the talent and system level, the company will continuously introduce core talents in high-end R&D, industrialization implementation, and global market operations, continuously improve the innovative R&D system and modern organizational structure, build a high-level and professional core talent team, continuously consolidate the core endogenous driving force for the long-term high-quality development of the enterprise, and provide all-round system support for the continuous technological innovation, large-scale capacity implementation, and global market expansion of the enterprise.
05. With the Original Intention of Technology, Helping China's Sensing Industry Go Global
Standing at the critical node of the iteration of the embodied AI and high-end intelligent manufacturing industries, Kunwei Technology will take this round of financing as a brand-new strategic starting point, deeply cultivate the core track of high-end six-axis force sensing, solve the industry's "choke point" pain points with continuous technological innovation, accelerate the process of domestic substitution with large-scale mass production, and empower the intelligent upgrading of multiple fields such as embodied AI, high-end manufacturing, medical rehabilitation, education and scientific research, and aerospace with high-quality products.
In the future, relying on the multi-dimensional advantages of technology, capacity, and market, Kunwei Technology will continuously link upstream and downstream ecological partners, improve the domestic high-end force sensing industrial chain and supply chain system, make up for industrial shortboards, and consolidate the industrial foundation, helping China's intelligent equipment industry achieve a leapfrog upgrade from "perception follower" to "technology leader", and continuously empower the global development of domestic high-end intelligent manufacturing.