In August 2026, Shenzhen City Intelligent Research and Control Ltd. announced the completion of tens of millions of yuan of Pre-A financing.
This is a year after the introduction of external institutional investors. The company, which has previously been hiding out of the spotlight, has won the recognition of two mainstream investment institutions with its product power rather than financing stories.
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The industry is about to explode, but high integration difficulties and poor reliability are still the biggest pain points
According to industry data, in 2025, China's sales of about 1,920,000 handles, an increase of 236.84%, are expected to reach 720,000 in 2026, an increase of 265.63%; by 2030, market sales are expected to exceed 430,000.
But the flood of capital, the accumulation of players, even the scale of the market does not mean the maturity of the industry.
There are still a number of key issues facing the current skilled craft industry:
First, the complexity of integration is extremely high, small volumes, high frequency, light weight, high load, low cost, and it is difficult to control each other.
The clever integration problem is one of the best-solved dilemmas under the classical pentadimensional constraints, with each performance indicator being upgraded almost at the expense of another indicator. The difficulty of demolishing the east wall to replace the west wall is such that the vast majority of products on the market can only bias one or two dimensions, but it is difficult to achieve a complete balance.
Second, the lack of reliability, stability and shelf life, and the huge gap from demonstration-grade to industrial-grade aluminum aluminum.
The number of parts in a single hand may exceed 200, and the failure of any micro-motor, chip, silk, or FPC line can cause the whole hand to fail. Non-modular design makes it extremely difficult to repair, and products often need to be returned to the factory after problems.
Third, the technical route has not yet been narrowed, and the connecting rods, ropes, and straight drives are long.
The connector system is currently the most mainstream choice in industrial applications, strong rigidity, good carrying capacity, high reliability, suitable for industrial clutch, but with limited flexibility and freedom of expansion, and relatively complex control. The cable system is highly sought after, highly flexible, remotely driven by Tesla to reduce the inertia of the fingertips, but its fatal flaws also highlight the extremely short life of the cable, the industry generally only for a few weeks to a few months, and the cable has fluctuations and wear problems, continuous decline in accuracy, confusion, high maintenance costs, difficult to meet the needs of industrial continuous operation.
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Intelligent management: redefining the philosophy of product with a focus on reliability
Capital is the leader in chasing aluminum parameters, while customers are eager for stable and durable aluminum.
When smart hands move from the lab to the production line as an irreversible trend, reliability is no longer a factor but a line. Whoever crosses this and line first is qualified to define the next stage of market rules. Competition at the end of a smart hand, not only in terms of freedom or precision, but also in terms of reliability, is the underlying logic of the product philosophy that wisely controls and prioritizes reliability.
With reliability prioritized as faith, Wise and Wise Control is quietly building a differentiated shield river.
One million+ lifetimes, turning rubber-resistant rubber into history
The industry's common pain point is that the life expectancy of smart hands in industrial continuous operation is only a few weeks to a few months. Wise R&D controls, through systematic optimization of the drive program and the transmission structure, combined with self-developed power point mixed control algorithms, have increased the reliability of the product to one million times.
Prices are highly competitive, allowing smart hands to move from luxury to conventional tools.
With its deep focus on the supply chain and its extreme product engineering capabilities, S.I.M.C. has become even more competitive in the market at a price where product performance is significantly ahead of the industry average. S.I.M.C. is the first enterprise to achieve a slick hand price of up to 10,000 yuan.
7x24 hours of continuous operation, extreme heat management
In high frequency continuous operation, engine heating is one of the core bottlenecks that limits the overall life of the machine. Intelligent management has invested a lot of engineering resources in heat management, optimizing engine selection, transmission efficiency and heat dissipation structure, achieving excellent heat management performance of the product, supporting 7×24 hours of uninterrupted operation.
200+ customers, 85%+ buy-back rate, 4.8% return rate, the numbers are the best proof.
It is reported that as of now, the total number of customers of R&D Intelligent Control has exceeded 200, covering various fields such as industrial manufacturing, R&D education, business services and more. Among the customer groups that really have a need for repurchasing, the repurchasing rate is up to 85%. More importantly, the product repair rate is only about 4.8%, and the low repair rate is behind R&D Intelligent Control's reliable engineering system from design, selection, manufacturing to testing the entire chain.
As of now, Intelligent R&D has built a complete flexible product matrix covering multiple frequency, multiple application scenarios, and the product range that has been stable to date includes performance flagship high frequency RY-H1, batch deployment RY-H2, shock-resistant RY-H5, ultra-small RY-H6 and other low, medium and high configuration requirements, both for the pursuit of extreme pricing and high reliable durability in large-scale production scenarios, and to meet the forward-looking needs of complex operations through high frequency product lines.
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Two mainstream investors, why are local Shenzhen State Capital+ Brokers?
The two investment agencies involved in this round of financing are deeply committed.
Shenzhen is a state-owned investment institution representing industry backlogs and policy dividends
Shenzhen is the height of China's intelligent and robotic industries. Shenzhen's state funding is clear in the logic of the layout of the racetrack: betting on tech barriers, industrial capabilities, and hard tech companies that can drive downstream ecosystems.
The company's technological strength and industrialization capabilities are highly recognized by local industrial capital. This is not only supported at the financial level, but also by multi-dimensional strategies such as policy resources, industrial connectivity, and scenic terrain.
Eastern Exchange Capital as an investment platform for leading brokerage firms to promote R&D and SM controlled exploration of capital markets
Head brokers are among the most professional and provocative institutional investors in the capital market. They are known for their in-depth industry research and rigorous advocacy of long investment decision-making cycles, high standards.
More importantly, not only the funds but also the rich investment resources, the network of publicly traded companies and the operational experience of capital markets have been brought by the brokerage platforms. The value of these strategic resources is invaluable for a company that aspires to be a leader in the industry and will greatly facilitate the integration of smart control and capital markets.
Joint investment between the two institutions: dual recognition of industrial capital
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A low-pitched black horse
The warmth of the racetrack is undeniable, but in the heat of the moment, it is necessary to look calmly at who is really solving the problem and who is really delivering value.
One of the main characteristics of this industry is that the demo video is always surprising, but once you break away from a well-designed demonstration environment and enter a real factory workshop, many problems are exposed. The industry's quirks are: the more effort is put into the demo, the further away from the real need.
When other people roll freely, R&D controls the reliability of a million+ times over the life of the roll, allowing the product to run steadily annually from clay to clay in a matter of weeks.
When others are in the middle of a price war, S.I.M. controls the buy-back rate of 85%+ on the buy-back indicates that customers are voting with real gold and silver.
When other people roll out financing, R&D is the best bet on product reliability at a rollover rate of 4.8%.
When other people roll out the conference, S.I.M. controls the 7×24-hour uninterrupted workflow so that the customer's production line really runs.
This is the logic of the smartly controlled Black Horse: not by financing stories, but by talking about products; not by demos, but by parameters and reliability.
The ultimate competition for smart hands is the competition for reliability, and in this competition, smart control has steadily led the way.
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Prospects: Make every handshake worthy of trust
In 2026, the Ministry of Industry and Communications and the State Council's State Finance Committee jointly launched a special operation to launch humanoid robots with physical intelligent real-world training, explicitly proposing to promote robotics to launch a business model.
When a robot actually starts working on a chip, the hands are no longer available as accessories, but decide whether the robot can complete the task. The mission of Intelligent Control is to make the chip reliable enough.
Upon completion of this round of financing, R&D&I will further increase its investments in reliability engineering, product generation and capacity expansion. The company will continue to adhere to its product philosophy of prioritizing reliability, moving towards a higher goal based on a million lifetimes, and exploring more extreme continuous operational capabilities based on 24/7 continuous operation.
As the CEO of Intelligent Control, Mr. Tapo, said, Intelligent Control aims to be the most reliable robotic hand that can really get robots into factories, homes and industries.