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On May 10, the 7th Shanghai Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship 50 Forum was held in Shanghai. This Y50, themed "You…
On May 10, the 7th Shanghai Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship 50 Forum was held in Shanghai. This Y50, themed "Youth and City Growing Together," brought together young entrepreneurs, investors, universities, industry and urban resources, jointly presenting the innovative vitality of Shanghai's youth science and innovation ecosystem.
During the event, Xense Robotics participated in Y50-related activities as a representative of youth hard-tech enterprises. On one hand, Xense Robotics founder and CEO Dr. Ma Daolin joined the CBN Y50 live broadcast, discussing the topic of "a two-way pursuit between investors and Gen Z entrepreneurs"; on the other hand, Xense Robotics appeared at the Shanghai Youth Science and Innovation Carnival's Shanghai Jiao Tong University venue, showcasing the company's technical capabilities in embodied touch, precision robot manipulation and intelligent inspection.
As an important platform for youth innovation and entrepreneurship in Shanghai, Y50 is not just a forum but also a bridge connecting young entrepreneurs, universities, industry, capital and urban resources. For hard-tech startup companies, such a platform is especially important, because hard tech going from the laboratory to industry cannot be separated from the joint support of real scenarios, industrial resources, long-term capital and the talent ecosystem.
Xense Robotics' participation in Y50 was both a corporate showcase and a concentrated appearance of a young scientist startup team in Shanghai's science and innovation ecosystem. Starting from the underlying technology of robot tactile perception, the company continues to explore implementation paths for embodied intelligence in real industrial scenarios.
In the CBN Y50 live broadcast, Dr. Ma Daolin shared his views on topics including young scientist entrepreneurship, the long-termism of hard tech, and the relationship between investors and entrepreneurs.
In his view, hard-tech entrepreneurship is not about chasing short-term trends, but choosing a direction that is difficult enough yet truly worth pursuing long-term. For the embodied intelligence and robotics industry, vision lets robots "see" the world, while touch gives robots the opportunity to truly "manipulate" the world. Only with the ability to perceive contact, force, slip and physical interaction can robots move from demonstration to real applications.
On the "two-way pursuit" between investors and entrepreneurs, Dr. Ma Daolin believes that capital should not be merely financial support, but a collaborative force for technology entering industrial scenarios. For hard-tech companies, a truly good investment relationship is one where both sides form consensus on long-term value and jointly advance on industrial resources, scenario judgment and key milestones.
"If robots only have vision, they can only see the world; add touch, and they have the opportunity to truly manipulate the world."
"The two-way pursuit between entrepreneurs and investors is essentially a shared judgment of long-term value."
— Ma Daolin, Founder & CEO of Xense
At the Shanghai Youth Science and Innovation Carnival's Shanghai Jiao Tong University venue, Xense Robotics showcased tactile perception technologies and related product capabilities for embodied intelligence and precision manipulation.
On site, the Xense team exchanged views with attending guests, young students and industry partners on robot tactile perception, multimodal perception, precision manipulation, intelligent inspection and industrial applications. During the event, relevant leaders and guests visited the Xense Robotics booth to learn about the company's technology progress in embodied touch, precision manipulation and intelligent inspection.
Embodied intelligence is moving from technical demonstrations to industrial applications. For scenarios such as humanoid robots, precision manufacturing and intelligent inspection, the real difficulty is often not whether robots "can move," but whether they can complete tasks stably, reliably and reproducibly in complex physical contact. Tactile perception is precisely an important underlying capability for solving this problem.
In the past few years, the robotics industry has focused more on vision, motion control and large model capabilities. But when robots enter real industrial sites, merely "seeing" is not enough. Robots need to know whether they have contacted the target, whether the grasp is stable, whether the force is appropriate, whether slip has occurred, and how to adjust next.
This is also the reason Xense Robotics has long focused on embodied touch. The company builds robots' underlying capability to understand the real physical world around tactile hardware, data collection, model training and scenario implementation. Toward directions including humanoid robots, precision manufacturing and intelligent inspection, Xense hopes that through tactile technology, robots can move from "can move" to "usable and easy to use."
Xense Robotics' development is also inseparable from the support of Shanghai's science and innovation ecosystem and Shanghai Jiao Tong University's achievement transformation environment.
For hard-tech entrepreneurs, Shanghai's most important advantage is enabling technology to reach real industrial scenarios faster. Here there are university and research talents, a complete industrial chain, active capital, and a large number of application scenarios in intelligent manufacturing, robotics, automotive, precision manufacturing and more. For a young scientist startup team like Xense, Shanghai provides not just entrepreneurial space, but a complete soil from research to industrial implementation.
The Y50 forum and the SJTU venue of the Shanghai Youth Science and Innovation Carnival further connect young entrepreneurs, investors, industry players and urban resources, giving more frontier technologies the opportunity to be seen, understood and moved toward real applications.
From the CBN live broadcast studio to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University venue, Xense Robotics' appearance at Y50 was a concentrated expression of young scientist entrepreneurship, robot tactile technology and Shanghai's science and innovation ecosystem.
In the future, Xense Robotics will continue to deepen the embodied touch direction, advancing robots from "seeing the world" toward "understanding and manipulating the real world," helping embodied intelligence land in more industrial scenarios.
