Linkerbot

LinkerBot (灵心巧手), registered in Beijing in July 2023, designs and mass-manufactures dexterous robotic hands for humanoid robots, industrial automation, and research use. Its Linker Hand product family spans models with 6 to 42 degrees of freedom, built around three actuation approaches (tendon-driven, linkage, and direct-drive) and a proprietary skill-capture ecosystem called LinkerSkillNet, which the company says contains more than 500 standardized dexterous-manipulation behaviors used to train its hands and the humanoid robots that carry them.

By December 2025 LinkerBot had shipped its 10,000th dexterous hand and raised roughly $150 million since its April 2025 seed round, according to LinkerBot's own press release distributed via PR Newswire and carried by Yahoo Finance. The company went on to close a Series B of RMB 1.5 billion in February 2026 and a Series B+ round in April 2026 backed by Zhongguancun Science City Fund, Bank of China Asset Management, Fosun, Ant Group and HongShan Group (Sequoia China's China-focused spin-out) that valued the company at more than RMB 20 billion (roughly $3 billion). Reuters reported in May 2026 that LinkerBot was seeking a further round at a $6 billion valuation. English-language coverage from Reuters, the Guardian and Forbes describes LinkerBot as holding more than 80% of the global unit-volume market for high-degree-of-freedom robotic hands, running five factories across Beijing and Shenzhen with over 400 employees, and supplying both Chinese humanoid-robot makers and unnamed foreign industrial customers under non-disclosure agreements.