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🇨🇳 DexForce Technology
🤖 Embodied AI for Robotics
DexForce is building a simulation-first platform for robotic manipulation: with its DexVerse engine, it trains grasping and handling in virtual factories, paired with 3D vision software. As a tech showcase, the DexForce W1 — a wheeled humanoid — demonstrates precise handling skills.
💸 Fresh Funding in July: “Several hundred million RMB” raised in a Series A round.
🏭 Clients & Use Cases: Automotive, logistics, home appliances — including Midea, Panasonic, and TCL.
📈 China’s Embodied-AI Boom Attracts Capital: Alongside “hardware-first” players (e.g. Unitree, LimX, Deep Robotics), “software-centric” teams like DexForce are scaling the robotics “brain” stack (perception, planning, grasping).
🟠 asiabits on Tour: Over the weekend we got to see DexForce technology live at work in Midea’s factory — recently certified by WRCA as the world’s first “AI Agent Factory.” At several production lines, robots were handling manipulation-intensive tasks powered by AI.
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