Saigan Technology, a flexible tactile sensor company, has completed a Pre-A++ financing round totaling tens of millions of yuan, with Guangzhou Industrial Investment as the sole investor. The proceeds will be allocated toward R&D of iontronic flexible technology, product iteration, and cross-industry expansion. In parallel, the investor is bringing in the first batch of orders from automotive manufacturing scenarios, propelling tactile sensors to extend from embodied intelligence into diverse applications such as industrial quality inspection. Founded in 2023, Saigan Technology traces its technology to relevant laboratories at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). The company has established a full-chain technology layout, and its core team comprises senior professors, industry operators, and research backbone personnel. Industry consensus has now converged on the view that touch is a mandatory capability for embodied intelligence, with the core challenge having shifted to the effective application of tactile signals. Leveraging its core iontronic interface capacitance technology, Saigan Technology has overcome the longstanding trade-off in flexible sensors whereby high sensitivity, large range, and high linearity are difficult to achieve simultaneously, achieving full-range linear response from milligram-level perception to hundred-kilogram-level load bearing. At the same time, the company treats stability and consistency as prerequisites for commercialization, delivering fingertip modules in an integrated calibration form to reduce downstream customers' integration and data alignment costs. In response to the demand for touch extending from single-point fingertips to multiple body parts, its flexible skin solution can be directly attached to curved surfaces, adapting to different configurations of humanoid robots for rapid deployment of full-body tactile perception. Saigan Technology points out that tactile and visual perception differ fundamentally in their temporal logic, and that touch cannot merely serve as an auxiliary input to visual perception for integration into VLA models. An independent, adapted data pipeline needs to be built, preserving high-frequency transient features of touch through a hierarchical processing architecture, so as to achieve genuine synergy and complementarity between the two in VTLA models. The company is building a system-level solution covering fingertip modules, full-body electronic skin, and tactile data streams, while leveraging non-embodied scenarios such as automotive manufacturing to validate the engineering boundaries of its technology.
