Robotics development relies heavily on physical interaction, making precise force control a crucial hurdle for researchers and engineers. This week at the Conference on Robot Learning in Austin, independent humanoid brand GENTO made its first appearance at the event, showcasing advanced manipulation technology at Booth 602. The exhibition highlights hardware stacks designed to give artificial intelligence models the ability to act directly within the physical world, addressing the complex contact and resistance tasks that standard pre-planned motions often fail to handle.
Key takeaways
- GENTO introduced its proprietary 21-degree-of-freedom dexterous hand prototype at CoRL 2026.
- NVIDIA utilized a TIANJI Marvin Pro platform to demonstrate its new GR00T 2 world action model.
- Tianji Intelligence developed in-house MEMS torque sensors capable of detecting torque down to 0.02 N·m.
- The company has accumulated over 30,000 industrial robots and delivered more than 2,000 force-controlled humanoid arms in 2025.
The Importance of Force Control in Robotics
Most tasks performed by human hands involve continuous contact with objects and surfaces rather than clean trajectories through open air. Without force sensing, a robotic system cannot adapt when a part resists, a surface shifts, or an object sits slightly out of position. Tianji Intelligence began developing in-house MEMS torque sensors in 2015 to bridge this gap. The resulting sensor stack detects torque down to 0.02 N·m, significantly outperforming the industry norm of 1 to 5 N·m, while achieving absolute force control accuracy within 0.3 N·m and a torque-loop bandwidth of 160 Hz.
These sensors feed into integrated joint modules that combine the motor, reducer, driver, encoder, and brake into a single unit roughly 25 percent lighter than comparable designs. Four-loop closed-loop compliant impedance control enables Cartesian stiffness to reach 15,000 N/m. This full chain runs from a single torque reading to a system capable of regulating exactly how hard it pushes during delicate procedures.
Hardware Lineup and NVIDIA GR00T 2 Integration
GENTO humanoid robots rely on TIANJI-branded robotic arms, including the M6-Lite, M6, and M20 models, covering everything from data collection to heavy industrial handling. Each arm runs 7 degrees of freedom with an anthropomorphic cross-axis wrist to eliminate singularities. The M6 arm has logged more than 10,000 cumulative deliveries and features an open SDK rated for 1 kHz real-time control, while the M20 extends payload capacity to 20 kg per arm.
At the Austin conference, GENTO is displaying two primary mobile humanoid systems. The GENTO Luna platform utilizes TIANJI M6S Lite arms and in-house dexterous hands for real-time teleoperation demonstrations. Meanwhile, the TIANJI Marvin Pro fixed-base dual-arm platform runs on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64GB compute unit, demonstrating voice-command object identification and retrieval. NVIDIA also selected the TIANJI Marvin Pro platform to demonstrate its new GR00T 2 world action model, built on NVIDIA Cosmos to predict future video and robot actions together.
Funding, Deployment, and Future Outlook
The CoRL exhibition arrives during a period of strong commercial momentum for the company. Tianji Intelligence delivered more than 2,000 force-controlled humanoid arms within a four-month window in 2025 and maintains 45-plus production or supply relationships with OEMs and embodied-AI companies. Its customer base exceeds 400 clients, including university research labs at Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, and the University of Chicago. In May 2026, the company closed a RMB 1 billion Series B/B+ funding round led by Hillhouse Ventures and Meituan, followed by a strategic Series B++ round from Ant Group and Sofina in September.
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