IT Home On October 13, according to a report by Tóuzhōng Network, Shenzhen Star Robot Technology Co., Ltd. completed its angel round of financing. The investors include Huawei’s Haba Investment, a fund under Shenghao High-tech Investment, and Gaoxuan Investment.多维 Capital serves as the exclusive financial advisor. This financing will be used for product research and development, iteration, and commercialization, as well as expanding applications in embodied intelligence, consumer electronics, and industry.
The Tower uses flexible photonic crystal materials as its technical starting point to focus on tactile perception and robot operation**. The core research team comes from the Intelligent Liquid Crystal Optics Laboratory at Southern University of Science and Technology, and Dr. Zhang Wei, the founder and CEO, was jointly trained by Southern University of Science and Technology and Hong Kong City University.
The company has expanded into product and technical areas such as tactile sensors, data collection systems, and tactile control models based on photonic crystal tactile technology.
According to information provided by IT Home from the Shenzhen International Advanced Technology Application Promotion Center, Vision Tower Robot has developed a new flexible photonic crystal soft material. By using a nanoscale periodic structure, it creates a “mechanics-optics” mapping, achieving a high sensing density of over 10,000 points/cm², multi-dimensional force characterization, and excellent linearity. It also creates the only current high-density tactile sensing solution that can achieve ultra-thin, flexible, conformable materials less than 1mm in thickness — the photonic crystal tactile electronic skin. This enables full-body coverage for robots, and can be applied in scenarios such as industrial dexterous operation, home organization, smart homes, and acupuncture robots.