Key Takeaways
- Ensuring Technology has launched a new series of tactile sensing products, including Tacta and HexSkin, which provide human-like perception for robots.
- The company’s technology is based on a "spatially-encoded multidimensional piezoresistance" approach, which delivers lower cost, superior interference resistance, and compact size.
- Ensuring Technology aims to develop a comprehensive tactile sensing infrastructure solution, including hardware, software, and platform for tactile operation model training.
- The company’s goal is to enable robots to effectively utilize tactile data and transition from "showing off" to "doing real work".
- Ensuring Technology has showcased its products at CES 2026, attracting significant attention from international experts, media, and attendees.
Introduction to Ensuring Technology and Embodied AI
The field of robotics has witnessed significant advancements in recent years, with robots capable of performing various tasks, from dancing to drama. However, the true potential of robots can only be realized when they possess human-like learning abilities, allowing them to accomplish tasks they have not been trained with. Ensuring Technology, a pioneer in embodied intelligent tactile perception, has taken a significant step towards achieving this goal by launching a new series of tactile sensing products at CES 2026. The company’s products, Tacta and HexSkin, are designed to provide robots with human-like perception, enabling them to perceive, decide, and perform like humans.
Tacta and HexSkin: Tactile Sensors Built for Utility
The multi-dimensional tactile sensor industry has long been challenged by low sampling density, low frequency, and complex deployment. Ensuring Technology’s Tacta is engineered to overcome these limitations, providing tactile perception with human-level sensitivity. Tacta achieves this by integrating 361 multi-dimensional sensels in 1 cm2, all sampling at 1000Hz, which delivers tactile perception with human-level sensitivity. The sensor’s highly compact design offers a maximum thickness of just 4.5mm, incorporating sensing, real-time data decoupling, and edge computing into a single module. This eliminates the need for external processing devices and dramatically enhances deployability across diverse robotic dexterous hands. At CES, the deploy capability was showcased in a landmark demonstration, where a dexterous hand was fully covered with Tacta sensors for the first time.
HexSkin: Large-Area Electronic Skin Tactile Sensor
Ensuring Technology’s HexSkin is a large-area electronic skin tactile sensor that addresses two critical industry challenges: deployability and data acquisition. The HexSkin series utilizes a hexagonal topology of sensing-computing-integrated sensels, enabling seamless tiling and high coverage over complex curved surfaces, such as those on humanoid robots. The company has moved away from the conventional approach of "large-array multiplexing (MUX) with bulky external readout boards" and instead employs a modular protocol-based communication architecture. This shift resolves the issues of high latency and slow response rates inherent in traditional systems. Furthermore, HexSkin makes it possible to cover an entire humanoid robot with electronic skin at a cost reduced to the hundred-dollar range, achieving a groundbreaking balance between high performance and affordability.
The Technology Behind Ensuring Technology’s Products
Ensuring Technology’s tactile sensing technology is built on a "spatially-encoded multidimensional piezoresistance" approach. This approach delivers two revolutionary benefits for real-world adoption: significantly lower cost and superior interference resistance. The mass-produced fingertip sensor is priced at just one-tenth that of competing industry solutions, making it more accessible to a wide range of applications. Additionally, the sensor remains unaffected by material, temperature, magnetic fields, and other environmental variables, ensuring much stronger robustness in application. Ningzhe Hou, founder and CEO of Ensuring Technology, emphasized that the company’s goal is to develop a comprehensive tactile sensing infrastructure solution, comprising "mass-producible, integrable high-performance tactile sensor hardware + a self-developed software toolkit for tactile data acquisition, decoupling, and algorithms + a platform for tactile operation model training, generalization, and utilization."
The Future of Embodied Tactile Technology
As a practitioner in embodied tactile technology, Hou expressed his concern about the current challenge in the field: how to use tactile data efficiently. He hopes to develop Ensuring Technology into a foundational builder of tactile perception infrastructure for embodied intelligence. The company’s approach aims to transform "invisible touch" into visualizable, deployable, and usable data assets, enabling robots to effectively utilize tactile data and transition from "showing off" to "doing real work." With its groundbreaking products and technology, Ensuring Technology is poised to play a significant role in shaping the future of embodied AI and robotics.
About Ensuring Technology
Ensuring Technology is a frontier technology company specializing in embodied intelligent tactile sensors and tactile-modal software architecture. Founded in January 2025 and based in Shenzhen Bay, the company is dedicated to building the foundational tactile infrastructure for robots, empowering them with human-like fine manipulation capabilities and natural human-robot interaction. With its innovative products and technology, Ensuring Technology is committed to enabling robots to perceive, decide, and perform like humans, revolutionizing the field of robotics and beyond.