LumiBot, the robotics startup known in China as Shiyue Technology, is showing finger-shaped visuo-tactile sensors, a dexterous hand series and manipulation foundation models at IROS 2026, the company said. The company, founded in 2025, has also been selected as a high-potential startup to present at the official IROS Startup Session.
The company's stated position is that the quality ceiling for embodied AI data is set by hardware reliability. It says public multimodal datasets that combine high-degree-of-freedom dexterous hands with tactile feedback amount to only a few tens of thousands of samples, while training scalable manipulation models would require tens of millions of hours of real-world operational data. LumiBot says it works on that gap at the hardware level, using hands and sensors meant to make collected data standardised, clean and reusable from the start.
The Lumi-Dex hand series supports mainstream industrial communication protocols and integrates with robotic arm platforms and simulation environments, according to the company. The Lumi-Dex-21, demonstrated on the show floor, uses a drive-control integrated design that combines linkage and direct-drive mechanisms. An upcoming flagship hand adds a self-developed active-cooling micro joint module, holds operating temperatures around 50°C and supports more than 5,000 hours of continuous no-load operation, the company says. Its Lumi-Tac V2 visuo-tactile sensor covers the fingertip, finger side and finger pad, with 10-micron spatial resolution, 0.02 N force detection accuracy and a 120 fps frame rate.
On the model side, Lumi-Mind uses a hierarchical MoT architecture that fuses vision, tactile, language and action, with a memory mechanism and tactile gating for long-horizon planning and fine adjustment during dense contact. LumiBot says its Lumi-Cap pipeline links egocentric video capture, teleoperation data collection and automated cleaning. At the conference, its lower-degree-of-freedom Lumi-Dex-11 hand, driven by Lumi-Mind, carried out a sequence that included picking up a stamp, stamping, picking up a tray, handing out a card and returning the items, and adjusted its planning in real time when people disturbed it, the company said.
LumiBot says it developed its whole product range in house, spanning motors, sensors, complete hands, manipulation models and data acquisition pipelines. It says it is running scenario validation and technical verification, or POCs, with industry leaders in automotive manufacturing, 3C electronics and life sciences. The company lists its official website as lumirobot.net.
