HIT Showcases at Automate 2026 Chicago, Driving Global Embodied AI Innovation Through Flexible Tactile Sensing Technology

June 22–25, 2026 – Chicago, USA – The premier event for automation and robotics in North America, Automate 2026, was held at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago. At the exhibition, Wuhan Huaweike Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (HIT) showcased its full portfolio of self-developed flexible tactile sensing products, demonstrating proprietary and fully controllable core tactile technologies to a global audience while officially introducing its innovative embodied AI sensing solutions to the North American market.

Full-Stack Tactile Matrix: DragonScale + Lingxi Enabling a Complete "Manipulation and Interaction" Closed Loop

At this year's exhibition, HIT focused on the core tactile sensing requirements of robotic systems, presenting a comprehensive portfolio of tactile sensors integrated with multiple dexterous hand platforms. The showcase highlighted the company's full-stack technological capabilities and diversified ecosystem strategy in the field of flexible intelligent sensing.

DragonScale Series – Full-Hand Coverage for Natural Human-Robot Interaction

The DragonScale Series represents China's first large-area electronic skin designed specifically for dexterous robotic hands. The product has already achieved comprehensive tactile coverage for both the palm and the back of the hand and has entered volume production and commercial deployment.

Whether a robot is shaking hands, patting, or sliding across a surface, DragonScale provides delicate force and tactile feedback, enabling robots to interact with humans in a more natural, intuitive, and responsive manner. By allowing robots to better understand contact force and interaction intent, DragonScale opens new possibilities for applications such as home service robots, commercial interaction, and social robotics.

 

Lingxi Series – Precision Fingertip Sensing for Dexterous Manipulation

The Lingxi Series is designed around the concept of high-precision fingertip perception. By integrating pressure, temperature, and texture sensing capabilities into a miniaturized module directly mounted on robotic fingertips, Lingxi significantly enhances robotic manipulation capabilities.

The technology enables robots to distinguish between different materials, detect subtle object deformations, and even reliably grasp transparent objects-tasks that remain highly challenging for conventional robotic systems.

"The smarter the fingertips, the more precise the manipulation." The Lingxi tactile electronic skin empowers dexterous hands with human-like fine manipulation capabilities.

Together, the DragonScale and Lingxi product families form HIT's comprehensive full-hand tactile sensing solution.

For fingertip applications requiring highly precise manipulation, HIT adopts a hybrid piezoresistive and magnetic sensing architecture to maximize sensitivity and object recognition performance. For palm applications, sensing strategies are optimized to enhance interaction experience and force feedback quality.

Different sensing modules are designed with distinct functional priorities:

Fingertips: Object attribute recognition and precision manipulation

Palm Area: Human-robot interaction optimization and tactile feedback

This differentiated architecture creates a complete tactile perception loop that seamlessly integrates both manipulation and interaction.

 

Proven by Market Adoption, Accelerated by Manufacturing Expansion

HIT remains firmly committed to the core field of flexible intelligent sensing, continuously advancing independent innovation and proprietary technology development.

The company has successfully overcome multiple critical industry challenges and established comprehensive technological barriers spanning manufacturing equipment, advanced materials, algorithms, and application integration.

To date, HIT's flexible electronic skin products have been deployed on more than 20,000 dexterous robotic hands worldwide, achieving a market share exceeding 70%.

Following the official launch of the HIT Flexible Intelligent Sensor Manufacturing Project (Phase I) in May, the company has entered a new milestone stage of large-scale manufacturing expansion, targeting annual production capacity in the tens of millions of sensor units. This significant capacity enhancement will provide strong manufacturing support for the industrial-scale deployment of embodied AI applications worldwide.

 

Expanding Globally to Shape the Future of Embodied AI

HIT's debut at Automate 2026 not only served as a platform to showcase China's robotics innovation capabilities to the world, but also provided an important opportunity to engage in global technology dialogue, gain insights into emerging industry trends, and expand international partnerships.

Throughout the exhibition, the HIT booth attracted significant attention from industry leaders, technology companies, and professional visitors. Extensive discussions were held regarding the application and deployment of tactile sensing technologies across a wide range of scenarios, including:

Humanoid robots

Intelligent automotive cockpits

Smart sleep and healthcare systems

Next-generation human-machine interaction applications

Looking ahead, HIT will continue to increase investment in research and development, remain focused on core technology innovation, and accelerate product and capability evolution to empower the global robotics industry with more advanced sensing solutions.

We look forward to working closely with partners worldwide to explore new boundaries for tactile perception technologies across diverse application scenarios and to accelerate the transition of embodied AI from research laboratories into everyday life.