Facts

• Segment: End Effectors
• Country: China
• Founded: 2018
• Website: https://www.changingtek.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Relationships
• Sources

Summary

Changing Tek develops robotic grippers, dexterous hands, mobile manipulators and actuator systems. Its products cover industrial parallel grippers, collaborative grippers, humanoid hands, electric vacuum actuators and robot platforms for embodied-intelligence applications.

Market context

ZhiXing matters as a real end-effector supplier in the embodied-robotics stack rather than a generic automation company. Its public positioning is strongest around dexterous hands and manipulation hardware, with broad component coverage and supply into multiple embodied-AI enterprises. Owns proprietary dexterous-hand, gripper, and manipulation-hardware product lines for robotics and embodied-intelligence applications.

• Capability: End-effector hardware for embodied robots Dexterous manipulation interfaces Gripper and actuator-layer hardware Intelligent grasping and manipulation systems
• Strategic position: Component-layer supplier to embodied-robotics and intelligent-manufacturing customers Positioned around industrial-grade manipulation hardware rather than full robot OEM status

Products

• AG Collaborative Gripper Series
• HM Heavy-Duty Gripper Series
• MG Humanoid Gripper Series
• Mobile Manipulator
• MSC Electric Vacuum Actuator Series
• Multi-stage Lifting Mobile Platform
• PM Parallel Gripper Series
• SDM Integrated Actuator Series
• Smart Inventory Robot
• Uhand
• Universal Wheeled Humanoid Robot

Facts

• Website: https://www.changingtek.com
• HQ: Taicang, Jiangsu, China
• Founded: 2018
• Segment: End Effectors
• Known funding rounds: 2

Funding

• 2026-03-27 - Series B+ / B++ - $14M - ZhiXing Robotics completes consecutive Series B+ and B++ rounds totaling nearly RMB 100 million - source: eu.36kr.com
• 2024-11-08 - B1 - ZhiXing Robotics announces B1 financing and relocates to its new Zhihuigu Valley site - source: changingtek.com

Investors

• Guoxing Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-27
• Shandong Weida - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-27
• Shanghai Angel Club - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-27
• Wuhu Science and Technology Innovation - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-27

Dexterous robotic hands and adaptive end-effectors for embodied intelligence

Changing Tek develops dexterous hands, robotic end-effectors and manipulation hardware, including adaptive left-right switching hands for humanoid robots, industrial automation and embodied-intelligence applications.

• Target environment: Humanoid robots, industrial robot arms, embodied AI labs, precision assembly environments and manipulation research settings.
• Deployment model: Component supplier model built around dexterous-hand hardware, end-effector R&D, manufacturing, integration support and product launches.
• Customer context: Humanoid robot builders, industrial automation users, robotics researchers, system integrators and companies developing embodied manipulation systems.
• Workflow context: Dexterous grasping, robotic end-effectors, adaptive hand configuration, tactile or force-aware manipulation, humanoid hand supply and industrial assembly tasks.
• Commercial maturity: Changing Tek has product-launch visibility and a clear role in the dexterous end-effector layer. Scaling depends on production volume, integration durability, force control, standardization and adop…
• Market position: Chinese end-effector company positioned in the dexterous manipulation layer for humanoids and industrial robots.
• Adoption constraints: Reliability, force control, durability, integration support, product standardization, customer adoption and competition from other dexterous-hand suppliers.
• Adjacent context: End-effectors, dexterous hands, humanoid components, manipulation hardware, embodied AI and industrial robotics.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-06-01 - Product Launch - Changingtek Robotics launches Uhand tactile sensing data-collection hand - Changingtek Robotics globally launched Uhand, an in-house developed tactile data-collection hand for embodied-inte…
• 2026-03-27 - Funding - ZhiXing Robotics completes consecutive Series B+ and B++ rounds totaling nearly RMB 100 million - ZhiXing Robotics completed consecutive Series B+ and B++ financing rounds with a combined total of…
• 2026-02-26 - Product Launch - ZhiXing Robotics launches the X2 adaptive left-right dexterous hand - ZhiXing Robotics announced the X2 as a dexterous hand designed to support adaptive switching between left- and right-ha…
• 2026-02-04 - Partnership - Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and ZhiXing Robotics establish a joint laboratory for dexterous manipulation research - Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and ZhiXing Robotics unveiled a…
• 2024-12-04 - Facility Opening - ZhiXing Robotics opens its Xi'an division - ZhiXing Robotics opened its Xi'an division in the Zhongke Remote Sensing Xi'an Spatial Information Technology Industrial Park.
• 2024-11-08 - Funding - ZhiXing Robotics announces B1 financing and relocates to its new Zhihuigu Valley site - At its Zhihuigu new-site relocation ceremony, ZhiXing Robotics announced completion of a B1 financing round…
• 2024-06-03 - Award - ZhiXing Robotics wins the Chapek Annual Technology Innovation Product Award - ZhiXing Robotics said it received the Chapek Annual Technology Innovation Product Award.

Operations / Deployments

• 2024-11-08 - Funding - ZhiXing Robotics announces B1 financing and relocates to its new Zhihuigu Valley site - At its Zhihuigu new-site relocation ceremony, ZhiXing Robotics announced completion of a B1 financing round…

Team

• Bai Guochao - Founder and Chairman

Relationships

• Joint laboratory (dexterous manipulation research) - Joint laboratory for dexterous manipulation and related robotics research; industry-academia cooperation.
• Lead investor (Series B+ / B++) - Shandong Weida is listed as an investor or backer of Changing Tek.
• Participating investor - Guoxing Investment is listed as an investor or backer of Changing Tek.
• Participating investor - Wuhu Science and Technology Innovation is listed as an investor or backer of Changing Tek.
• Participating investor - Shanghai Angel Club is listed as an investor or backer of Changing Tek.