Flexible fiber sensors for elderly health monitoring after aging meets new technology

Hard Krypton has learned that Weihai Moment Qiao Industrial Technology Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as “Moment Qiao Industry”) announced the completion of tens of millions of dollars in Series A financing. The investor is Jin Huifeng investment, education science and technology group strategic party, Qingdao and letter. This round of financing will be mainly used for tactile and robotic skin R & D iteration, expanding production line delivery and marketing. Up to now, “Moment Overseas Industry” has completed two rounds of financing, and opened a new round of financing, to promote the development and promotion of robotic haptic products, multi-dimensional capital as the exclusive financial adviser for this round.

“Moment overseas industrial” was founded in early 2024, is a company focusing on the development and production of flexible fiber sensors, its products to fabric and fabric sensors as the core, widely used in robotics, medical and health care, automotive and other fields. Currently, the products of “Moment Overseas Industry” include hardware devices such as robotic skin and hand tactile sensors, as well as sensor supporting software algorithms, software system solutions such as senior care medical systems and automotive cabin comfort assessment systems, and sensor development kits.

In recent years, with the development of artificial intelligence, 5G communications and other technologies, the demand for sensors that can adapt to complex environments and provide diverse data collection has increased dramatically in various industries. Flexible sensors break through the limitations of traditional rigid sensors and realize functions that cannot be reached by traditional sensors, for example, in human movement monitoring, they can fit the joint parts of the human body and accurately capture changes in subtle movements.

However, at the same time, most of the traditional flexible sensors are thin film pressure sensors, in the folding, elasticity, anti-interference, breathability, durability and other limitations, it is difficult to meet the market demand for high-performance, high-reliability sensors. In addition, many sensor products in the large area mass production process facing poor consistency, low yield and other issues, limiting its large-scale mass production and commercialization applications.

In response to the industry’s pain points, “Moment Overseas Industry” independently developed the fourth generation of fiber resistive flexible fiber sensor. Compared with the traditional thin film pressure sensor, the technology abandons the traditional thin film planar structure, the conductive coating, piezoresistive coating, coating substrate three layers completely deconstructed into fibers, using fiber nylon core, fiber piezoresistive core and fiber electrode core, material innovation makes it have ultra-high flexibility, can be folded, has passed hundreds of thousands of times the automotive level impact test, the smallest folding radius is less than 0.1 mm, and at the same time At the same time, it has ultra-high elasticity and tensile degree, and can still automatically rebound after long-term use, without calibration, and is resistant to all kinds of environmental interference, with excellent durability. Fabric sensors are also breathable and comfortable, skin-friendly and soft, and can be adapted to various scenarios like clothing.

“We are now focusing on expanding our business in the field of humanoid robotics, making the fiber sensors into mass-producible large-area robot electronic skin,” founder Zhang Jingqi told Hard Krypton, “Robot skin can help robots better perceive the global environment, truly realize humanoid interaction, and safeguard human-robot interaction safety, such as installing sensors on the soles of the robot’s feet, which can enable it to sense the hardness and balance state of different floors, so that it can walk and perform tasks more stably.”

Zhang Jingqi introduced, fabric structure flexible fiber sensor in the field of humanoid robotics more obvious advantages. Taking Yushu Technology G1 skin suit as an example, it contains three product forms, including dexterous hand gloves, upper body skin and plantar skin, which have the characteristics of high flexibility, high elasticity, breathability, durability and so on. Among them, the dexterous hand gloves can realize the whole palm multi-point haptics, and also have the function of motion capture teleoperation, the hand joints can be completely dead folded, the minimum triggering force is as low as 0.01N, and the range is as high as 3,500 kPa. Based on NVIDIA Isaac Sim will realize the training and deployment of haptic modality, and can complete the haptic data closed loop. “Moment Overseas Industry is currently in the process of cooperation and negotiation with more than ten head humanoid robotics companies, providing them with skin sets for the upper body, full palm of the hand, and soles of the feet, and has already been able to realize the batch delivery.

In addition, the products of “Moment Overseas Industry” have been practically applied and verified by customers in many fields such as senior care medical care and automobile intelligent cockpit. In the field of elderly care, the company has reached cooperation with dozens of customers such as Swan to Home, Taikang, Lecheng Pension, Weigao Group, etc., to provide intelligent care solutions for the elderly at home, medical care, nursing institutions, and its mattresses provide the elderly with “non-sensory” health monitoring, which can monitor the elderly’s pressure distribution, sleeping posture and sleep quality, breathing, etc., and accurately capture the faintest and most importantly, the quality of sleep. Its mattress products provide “senseless” health monitoring for the elderly, which can monitor the pressure distribution, sleeping posture and sleep quality, respiratory conditions, etc., accurately capture weak signals, effectively solve the problem of pressure ulcers, and provide timely early warning of stroke and bed fall. In the automotive field, the company has cooperated with head car companies to apply sensors to automotive intelligent cockpits, realizing intelligent adjustments for thousands of people, and even turning seats into game consoles, opening up a whole new intelligent driving experience, and some models are being pushed into mass production.

Zhang Jingqi told Hard Krypton that one of the bottlenecks in the commercialization of the sensor industry is the consistency and yield of large-scale mass production. “Moment Overseas Chinese Industry” through the construction of their own factories, thousands of sampling experiments, transformation of textile machinery, upgrading the dyeing formula and other process and equipment improvements, not only to significantly reduce the production cost of 80%, but also to improve the consistency of 200%. At present, the factory has realized industrialized roll-to-roll production, with an annual production capacity of 200,000 pieces, a production yield of up to 95%, and a new product sampling time of less than 24 hours.

“Moment Overseas Chinese Industry” existing team of more than 30 people, the founder Zhang Jingqi graduated from the University of York, Department of Electrical Engineering, served as millet ecological chain company CTO, has a number of related invention patents, the core team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and intelligent hardware factories, has a deep accumulation of technology and intelligent hardware product definition and mass production experience.

It is reported that the company is launching a new round of financing, the proceeds of the funds will be mainly used for continuous technology research and development, expanding production capacity, team expansion and other aspects.

Investor View:

JinHuiFeng investment partner ZhouLiFeng: moments overseas industry provides with the body with tactile game change rules of the solution, only cost control and large area mass production reliability and both, in order to realize the robot all over the body of the electronic skin landing, we optimistic about the moments overseas industry to lead the humanoid robots into the “whole skin sensing” new era. Through the flexible pressure sensor made of fiber fabric form, the moment overseas industrial breakthrough achieved high flexibility, high sensitivity, high accuracy, wide range, high durability, low cost of organic unity. We continue to optimistic about the team in the flexible fiber sensor technology development and industrialization capabilities, expect and support the team to continue to bring more products to solve customer pain points.