Endowing robots with fine touch tactile perception is giving rise to a rapidly growing niche market.

When robots struggle to connect components due to repeated friction at the edges and cause denting of plastic bottles due to imbalanced force during handlingthese mishaps of embodied intelligent robots are not uncommon in industrial settings. The crux of the issue lies in the fact that robots cannot solely rely on visual perception for interaction with the physical world; touch and other multimodal information are equally crucial. Transitioning robots from a "seeing" world to a "touching" world, tactile perception is giving rise to a rapidly growing niche market. According to incomplete statistics, over 7 billion yuan in new financing has been added to this field in the first seven months of this year, with at least two companies newly entering the unicorn club. Interviews with Securities Times reporters revealed that integrating tactile information into embodied intelligent large models to enhance robots' flexible operation capabilities has become one of the mainstream exploration directions in the industry. Relying on technological achievements such as visual-tactile integration, industrial flexible operations for robots have birthed application testing scenarios, with large-scale mass production expected to go live. However, due to the irreplaceable nature of tactile data, the data gap remains one of the core bottlenecks hindering the large-scale implementation of robots. Industry insiders are calling for enhancements in truly capturing multimodal data while further perfecting technological routes such as data simulation; core components like tactile sensors need to be refined in terms of durability and data consistency.