LinkerBot

Company Profile

LinkerBot is a company that specializes in high-freedomdexterous handsThe company is a high-tech enterprise that develops intelligent actuator systems. The company uses breakthrough technology to create the world's leading dexterous hand products, its scientific research version of the dexterous hand up to 42 degrees of freedom, a single finger can be rotated 360 degrees, far exceeding the industry average; industrial version of the balance between high load (maximum 50kg) and lightweight (minimum 370g), to meet the needs of precision assembly, medical rehabilitation and other multi-scenarios. Through the self-developed “super electric cylinder”, electronic skin and multimodal sensing system, the robot realizes the deep integration of force, touch and vision, and improves the robot's ability to adapt to the environment.

The company has built a full-stack ecosystem of “hardware+software+data”, launched a low-code development platform and the world's largest dexterous operation data set to lower the threshold of AI model training. Our products are cost-effective (priced at only 1/10 of international competitors) and have quickly captured the market, with customers covering Stanford, Huawei and other top organizations. In the future, LinkerBot will continue to promote the benefits of dexterous hand technology and help robots evolve from “tools” to “partners”.

In April 2025, the company completed a seed round of financing of over 100 million RMB, led by Sequoia China Seed Fund and followed by Wankai New Material and others;
August 2025 completed hundreds of millions of yuan of angel round financing, Ant Group led the investment, CICC Capital, the first development of venture capital and other institutions to participate;
October 2025 announced the completion of hundreds of millions of dollars in Series A financing, led by Jingguorui Management Company and Bogart Capital, with Ant Group continuing to raise capital.

The core team comes from well-known companies such as Zhiyuan Research Institute, Xiaomi, Nine Robotics and other top universities such as Tsinghua University and Peking University, with both technology development and commercialization experience. Founder and CEO Zhou Yong graduated from the Junior Class of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and has more than 10 years of experience in the Internet and robotics industry.

Products & Services

1. Core product: Linker Hand series of dexterous hands

• Technical Parameters::
  • Scientific Edition: Up to 42 degrees of freedom (9 for one finger, supports 360 degree rotation), the highest degree of freedom commercial dexterity in the world;
  • Industrial Edition:
    • Linker Hand L30: 22 degrees of freedom, maximum load 20kg, repeatability ±0.2mm;
    • Linker Hand L6: Equipped with self-developed “Super Cylinder” to meet the demand of high load and high speed;
    • Linker Hand O6: The world's lightest mass-produced dexterous hand (370g) with a load of up to 50kg.
  • Consumer version: The O7 cost-effective version (7 degrees of freedom) is priced at only $8,800, with a $499 entry-level product planned for the future.
• drive solution::
  It covers a variety of technical routes such as tendon rope, direct drive and linkage, adapting to the needs of different scenarios. For example, the tendon rope drive is suitable for flexible operation, and the direct drive solution improves response speed.

2. Supporting systems and platforms

• OpenTeleDex Modular Teleoperator System::
  Support any accidental devices (such as teleoperated gloves, VR, exoskeleton) and robotic arms (such as Riehlmann, Songling, UR, etc.), to build an open teleoperation system, and enhance the flexibility of robot operation.
• Nimble Operation of Digital Twin Platforms::
  Optimize dexterous hand design through virtual simulation to shorten the R&D cycle and reduce the cost of trial and error.
• Dex-Serl Real Machine Reinforcement Learning Framework::
  Introducing end-to-end force sensing, extending force detection and control schemes to non-force controlled robotic arms, and improving training device tolerance.

3. Data services: world's largest dexterity operational data set

• DexSkill-Net::
  Covering over a billion data volumes, it records key information such as movement trajectory, force, speed, etc., providing training resources for dexterous hand control algorithms.
• Data Acquisition Program::
  The plan is to deploy 1 million humanoid robots fitted with dexterous hands to establish standardized test scenarios (e.g., panning walnuts, playing Rubik's Cube, applying make-up) to validate the ability to generalize fine operations.

Core Advantages

1. Technical barriers: high degree of freedom and multimodal perception

• Freedom Breakthrough::
  The Research Edition's 42 degrees of freedom far exceed the industry average (e.g., Shadow Hand's 26), and the 360-degree rotation of a single finger realizes human-like operational flexibility.
• Sensor Fusion::
  Integrate high-precision camera, electronic skin (supporting 3D force, texture, and temperature sensing) and proximity sense to build a visual-tactile fusion sensing model to enhance environmental adaptation capability.

2. Cost advantage: Scaled mass production and supply chain integration

• price-performance ratio crushing::
  The product price is only 1/10 of Shadow Hand (domestic price is less than 50,000 RMB), with the lowest price of 6,666 RMB, penetrating the industry popularization threshold.
• Material Innovation::
  Joint laboratory with Wankai New Material to develop lightweight high-strength composite materials, reducing weight by 40%, increasing load by 30%, and extending service life to 2 times of the industry average.

3. Ecological layout: closed-loop system from hardware to data

• Full Scene Coverage::
  The product matrix covers scientific research, industry, and consumer sectors, and customers include universities such as Stanford, Cambridge, Tsinghua, and Peking University, as well as companies such as Huawei and Foxconn.
• Developer Friendly::
  Launched LinkerOS low-code development platform, pre-built skills libraries and standardized interfaces to reduce Agent development costs 80%, supporting 20 degrees of freedom dexterity hand plug and play.

development prospect

1. Market demand: a blue ocean market of hundreds of billions of dollars

• industrial automation::
  Precision assembly, quality inspection and other scenarios have a strong demand for highly flexible actuators, and dexterous hands can replace traditional robotic arms to accomplish complex tasks.
• Medical rehabilitation::
  Assisting in surgical operations and developing high simulation prostheses to help the handicapped restore hand function.
• service robot::
  Service robots with dexterous hands can complete household chores such as sorting clothes and preparing food, promoting the commercialization of home service robots.
• scientific research and education::
  Provide a low-cost, high-performance dexterous hand platform to accelerate the process of embodied intelligence research.

2. Strategic planning: upgrading mass production and globalization

• expansion of production capacity::
  The Series A financing will be used to accelerate the upgrade of mass production capacity and meet the demand of orders in the global market (monthly sales have exceeded 1,000 units and the market share is over 80%).
• Globalization::
  Expanding into Europe and the United States, we have partnered with top international organizations to promote dexterity as a global industry standard.
• Technology deepening::
  Continuously research and develop multimodal perception and interaction algorithms, and explore the application of dexterous hands in extreme environments such as space exploration and underwater operations.

3. Industry impact: reshaping the robotics landscape

• data-driven::
  Through the million-level robot data collection program, we build a dexterous operation skills library to provide massive real scene data for AI model training.
• ecological construction::
  With the dexterous hand as the core, joint upstream and downstream enterprises to build the body with intelligent ecology, promote the industry from a single hardware competition to “hardware + software + data” comprehensive ability to compete.