10月11日，乐动机器人（01236）发布公告，公司近期与华中科技大学正式签署具身机器人柔性三维触觉感知合作协议。此次合作旨在围绕具身机器人触觉感知需求，开展柔性三维触觉传感器件及阵列系统的技术研发及场景验证，主要包括提升传感器在复杂情况下的感知能力和稳定性，开发配套的信号采集硬件及相关算法。
On October 11, Ledian Robot (01236) announced that it recently signed a cooperation agreement with Huazhong University of Science and Technology on flexible three-dimensional tactile perception for embodied robots. The cooperation aims to conduct R&D and scenario validation of flexible 3D tactile sensor devices and array systems around embodied robot tactile perception needs, mainly including improving sensor perception capability and stability under complex conditions, and developing supporting signal acquisition hardware and related algorithms.
此次合作是公司在现有视觉感知技术基础上，进一步拓展触觉感知能力的重要布局。通过与华中科技大学的合作，公司将探索接触式三维力感知及触觉成像等技术，为后续在灵巧手、机械臂等场景的应用奠定基础，推动公司在多维全面感知产品及解决方案方面的发展。
This cooperation is an important布局 for the company to further expand tactile perception capability based on its existing visual perception technology. Through cooperation with HUST, the company will explore contact-based 3D force sensing and tactile imaging technologies, laying the foundation for subsequent applications in dexterous hands, robotic arms, and other scenarios, advancing the company's development in multidimensional comprehensive perception products and solutions.
乐动机器人的主业是视觉感知。它做激光雷达、视觉传感器，这些是机器人的“眼睛”。这次和华中科技大学合作做柔性三维触觉感知，逻辑和前面讨论的墨现科技、EPFL的FiberMotor是同一条脉络：机器人不能只有视觉，还得有触觉。前面EET那篇文章讲得很清楚，视觉用于规划，触觉用于执行。机器人看清了物体在哪里，但一旦手指握住物体，视觉就开始失效，接触点被手本身遮住，摩擦力看不见，物体是否开始滑动也看不见。乐动机器人从视觉往触觉延伸，本质上是在补全机器人感知能力里缺失的那一块。
Ledian Robot's main business is visual perception. It makes lidar and vision sensors—the "eyes" of robots. This cooperation with HUST on flexible 3D tactile perception follows the same thread as the previously discussed Moxian Technology and EPFL's FiberMotor: robots cannot have only vision; they must also have touch. The earlier EET article made it clear: vision for planning, touch for execution. The robot sees where the object is, but once fingers grip the object, vision begins to fail—contact points are occluded by the hand itself, friction is invisible, and whether the object starts to slip is also invisible. Ledian Robot extending from vision to touch is essentially completing the missing piece in robot perception capability.
这次合作的技术方向是柔性三维触觉传感器件及阵列系统。三维力感知意味着传感器不只能测法向压力，还能测切向力，也就是能感知到物体在手指间滑动的趋势。触觉成像意味着传感器阵列能生成接触区域的压力分布图像，让机器人知道接触面上哪里受力大、哪里受力小。这两个能力加在一起，对应的是前面讨论过的滑移检测和精细抓取。华中科技大学在这个方向上有研究积累，乐动机器人有产业化和场景落地的能力，双方合作的分工和前面鹿明机器人与面壁智能的合作模式类似：高校出技术，企业出场景和量产能力。
The technical direction of this cooperation is flexible 3D tactile sensor devices and array systems. 3D force sensing means the sensor can measure not only normal pressure but also shear force—sensing the tendency of an object to slide between fingers. Tactile imaging means the sensor array can generate pressure distribution images of the contact area, letting the robot know where force is high and where it is low on the contact surface. Together, these two capabilities correspond to the previously discussed slip detection and fine grasping. HUST has research accumulation in this direction, and Ledian Robot has industrialization and scenario deployment capabilities. The division of labor in this cooperation resembles the earlier Luming Robotics and ModelBest partnership: universities provide technology, companies provide scenarios and mass production capability.
乐动机器人是港股上市公司，这次合作的公告是通过港交所发布的。上市公司做触觉感知研发，和创业公司做这件事的动机不太一样。创业公司通常靠融资推进研发，需要向投资人证明技术路线的价值。上市公司做研发，更多是战略布局，要回答的是现有业务怎么延伸、未来增长点在哪里。乐动机器人从视觉感知延伸到触觉感知，是在把“机器人感知”这个定位做厚。视觉加触觉，才能构成完整的感知方案，才能给客户提供从看到摸的完整能力。这次合作能不能出成果，要看华中科技大学的技术能不能通过乐动机器人的量产体系落地，以及灵巧手、机械臂这些场景的客户愿不愿意为触觉感知付费。这两个问题，前面讨论触觉传感器时也提到过，数据能标价不等于能复用，技术能演示不等于能量产。
Ledian Robot is a Hong Kong-listed company; this cooperation announcement was released through the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. A listed company doing tactile perception R&D has different motives from a startup doing the same. Startups typically advance R&D through funding and need to prove the value of their technical route to investors. Listed companies doing R&D are more about strategic布局, answering how existing business extends and where future growth points are. Ledian Robot extending from visual perception to tactile perception is thickening its positioning as "robot perception." Vision plus touch forms a complete perception solution, providing customers with full capability from seeing to touching. Whether this cooperation yields results depends on whether HUST's technology can land through Ledian Robot's mass production system, and whether customers in dexterous hand and robotic arm scenarios are willing to pay for tactile perception. These two questions were also raised in earlier discussions of tactile sensors: data can be priced but not necessarily reused; technology can be demonstrated but not necessarily mass-produced.
