Facts

• Segment: Sensors
• Country: China
• Founded: 2023
• Website: https://jq-industries.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

JQ Industries develops flexible fiber-sensing technology for machines, robots, vehicles and smart environments. Its sensors can be woven into textiles or soft surfaces, giving hardware systems pressure, touch and deformation data without relying on rigid sensor modules.

Market context

JQ matters because large-area tactile sensing is a real gap for humanoids and dexterous robots, and the company is pushing toward commercial robot-skin supply. JQ Industries supplies robotics-adjacent hardware rather than complete robot platforms.

• Capability: Supplies flexible fiber sensing hardware for robot skin and tactile sensing Develops hand, palm, sole, and upper-body sensing layers for humanoid robot applications Supports tactile data capture and sensor i…
• Strategic position: Component supplier to humanoid robotics sensing stacks Positioned in the tactile and electronic-skin layer rather than full robot systems Relevant to safer physical interaction and whole-body environ…

Facts

• Website: https://jq-industries.com/
• HQ: Weihai, Shandong, China
• Founded: 2023
• Segment: Sensors
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2025-05-22 - Series A - JQ Industries raises Series A funding - source: kr-asia.com

Investors

• Freyr Graphite - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-05-22
• JHF - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-05-22
• New Oriental - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-05-22

Electronic skin supplier for humanoid robots

JQ Industries develops flexible electronic skin materials for robots, targeting pressure, touch and deformation sensing on humanoid surfaces.

• Target environment: Humanoid robot bodies, dexterous hands, soft sensing surfaces, tactile perception systems and robotics material labs.
• Deployment model: Early-stage sensor material and electronic skin development for robot builders and component partners.
• Customer context: Humanoid developers, robotic hand companies, tactile sensor integrators and research teams.
• Workflow context: Touch sensing, pressure detection, deformation sensing, tactile perception and robot surface instrumentation.
• Commercial maturity: Early-stage electronic-skin component developer with public tactile-sensing demonstrations. Scaling depends on sensor durability, signal quality, manufacturability, and adoption by humanoid or dexte…
• Market position: Tactile sensor materials company serving the humanoid and dexterous manipulation supply chain.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on sensor durability, signal quality, integration with robot control systems, manufacturability and customer validation.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes robotic skin, tactile sensors, humanoid sensing, dexterous hand feedback and soft robotics materials.
• Source confidence: low

Events

• 2025-05-23 - Capability - JQ Industries expands into humanoid robot electronic skin - JQ Industries said it was expanding into humanoid robot electronic skin
• 2025-05-23 - Production Milestone - JQ Industries reaches mass production for flexible fiber sensors - 36Kr reported that JQ Industries had achieved a mass-production scale of 200000 units
• 2025-05-22 - Funding - JQ Industries raises Series A funding - KR Asia reported that JQ Industries raised an eight-figure RMB Series A round
• 2023-11-01 - Company Formation - JQ Industries is founded in Weihai to commercialize fiber sensing - JQ Industries was founded in Weihai in November 2023.

Operations / Deployments

• 2025-05-23 - Production Milestone - JQ Industries reaches mass production for flexible fiber sensors - 36Kr reported that JQ Industries had achieved a mass-production scale of 200000 units

Team

• Zhang Jingqi - Founder

Context tags

• Low-confidence humanoid startup - Peer Group
• Electronics component supply - Workflow

Customers and deployments

• Production Milestone - 1 source-backed production milestone - 2025-05-23 - JQ Industries reaches mass production for flexible fiber sensors - source posture: Third Party Reported