Shenzhen Foundry

We help global builders turn physical AI ideas into real products, with Shenzhen as the execution layer.

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

Does a robot really need real-time pressure data from its feet🦶🦶? This demo gives a pretty clear answer.

As the sales engineer walks, the pressure grid on the foot updates in real time, showing the weight shifting from heel to forefoot.

This kind of tactile hardware that actually works shows how fast Chinese teams are moving on robot and wearable sensor integration.

Making a demo look slick is one thing. The hard part is keeping the sensors consistent, durable enough to handle repeated flexing, and making sure the calibration doesn’t drift once you go into mass production. Those are the issues that usually kill projects.

If you’re working on smart insoles or robotic feet, this kind of hardware gives you a much more realistic sense of what’s actually doable right now. 🧵2-2/END
#TactileSensing #RoboticBooties #shenzhenfoundry

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You can see every sensor point light up the second pressure hits the fingers and palm. Numbers update basically instantly.

This is the kind of real-time tactile feedback that makes robotic gloves and haptic systems actually usable instead of just looking good in videos.

The hard part isn’t getting it to work once. It’s hitting the right balance of sensor density, flex life, power draw, and consistency so it stays manufacturable when you start building real volumes.

If you’re working on dexterous hands or sensor gloves, seeing hardware like this running live helps clarify what’s actually possible right now. 🧵2-1
#TactileSensing #HapticGloves #RoboticGloves

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

You can see every sensor point light up the second pressure hits the fingers and palm. Numbers update basically instantly.

This is the kind of real-time tactile feedback that makes robotic gloves and haptic systems actually usable instead of just looking good in videos.

The hard part isn’t getting it to work once. It’s hitting the right balance of sensor density, flex life, power draw, and consistency so it stays manufacturable when you start building real volumes.

If you’re working on dexterous hands or sensor gloves, seeing hardware like this running live helps clarify what’s actually possible right now. 🧵2-1
#TactileSensing #HapticGloves #RoboticGloves

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

amazing! being able to independently design and build this kind of high-performance aircraft while still a student is already a powerful demonstration of execution strength and long-term vision. once you scale, teams that treat the supply chain as a core engineering constraint from the very beginning consistently pull ahead in iteration speed. we’re ready to help you land this successfully, faster and at lower cost.

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@homuraakem92126 yes

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$12,500! 🤖 you can buy a rope-driven upper body with ±0.3mm repeatability, 5kg payload, and ≥100m/s² acceleration at the end effector.

Astribot is positioning this as the core of a home service robot and claims to be the only company currently mass-producing rope-driven humanoids at scale.

Rope drive delivers significantly higher force transparency and near-zero backlash compared to traditional geared systems. This gives the AI cleaner, more reliable force feedback — a meaningful advantage for fine, safe interaction in home environments.

The system supports quick-swap end effectors, swappable compute backpacks, hot-swappable batteries, and can be paired with an optional mobile base with auto return-to-charge. It offers 2.5–4 hours of runtime with under 1 hour charging.

Among current Chinese humanoid programs, this level of dynamic performance in a production-intent rope-driven upper body is still uncommon.
#HumanoidRobot #PhysicalAI #EmbodiedAI #Robotics #HomeRobot #ChinaRobotics #RobotHardware #HumanoidRobotics #shenzhenfoundry

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

The $12,500 price and specs are genuinely impressive. Shenzhen’s hardware ecosystem makes mechanical iteration incredibly fast, concept to tested prototype often in just days, with suppliers and teams right nearby. That kind of speed comes from years of steady buildup. In some ways, we actually envy Canada quite a bit too. Every country has its strengths and challenges. Physical AI is something we’re all figuring out together.😁

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

This rope-driven setup feels like a real step up from most mainstream designs. @Tesla_Optimus already moved to tendon drive on Optimus hands (forearm motors pulling cables) for better transparency, but the rest of the body usually sticks with geared actuators.

Going full rope drive here should cut backlash and motion noise way down, giving the AI much cleaner force/tactile signals without needing to stack extra sensors. The head stereo cams + hand depth vision also lines up with what @Figure_robot 03 is doing on palm cams. Nice edge for actual home fine manipulation.

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

Thank you for clarifying — that’s a really interesting use case!
To be transparent, the glasses we’re referring to are standard smart glasses with audio, Bluetooth, camera, and basic AI features. They are not designed as a medical hearing device or a direct supplement to high-end hearing aids like your Phonak.

Real-time conversation separation and the ability to “repeat what I missed” is still quite advanced. While it’s technically possible using multiple microphones + speech-to-text + AI summarization, it’s not an out-of-the-box feature today. It would likely require custom app development or cloud integration, with considerations around latency, accuracy in noisy environments, and privacy.

If your main goal is to capture conversations and get a quick recap of anything you missed, I’d be happy to explore what’s realistically achievable with current technology.

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

Most AI glasses still default to adding a camera and a screen. This one made the opposite choice on purpose.

👓Pure titanium frame around 30g.
👓Takes real prescription lenses.
👓Open-ear audio that keeps you aware of your surroundings.
👓Real-time translation across 13 languages (works offline).
👓Solid meeting transcription. 8-10 hour battery.
👓No camera. No lens display. Because the people who actually wear glasses for work don’t want to look like they’re recording the room or staring down at their face during a client call.

The execution is clean enough that it just looks like a well-made pair of glasses — until you need the AI.
If you’re building physical AI wearables, how are you deciding what not to put on the face?
Which constraint are you optimizing hardest on your current wearable project — thermals, discretion, battery, or integration density?
#AIHardware #WearableAI #SmartGlasses #EdgeAI #PhysicalAI #AIWearables #HardwareStartup #TechHardware #shenzhenfoundry

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

You can literally see the cameras, flexible PCBs, battery, and connectors. This is the kind of hardware that shows how fast Chinese teams are iterating on wearable AI after the Ray-Ban Meta wave.

The real challenge isn’t just making it look clean — it’s hitting the right balance of compute, battery life, thermal, and cost while still being manufacturable at scale.

If you’re building edge AI wearables, these public teardowns are gold for understanding what’s actually possible right now.
#AR #VR #AIglasses #shenzhen #wearable #OEM

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

Hey Toy, totally understand the skepticism. Being mostly deaf, those “AI hearing glasses” sound more like a fashion statement than real help.
"挚听助听器" — they make proper binaural smart hearing aids (not glasses) based on Tsinghua tech, with FDA + NMPA medical certification, AI noise reduction, and natural sound processing.

In your situation, no matter how smart the glasses’ AI is, solving the fundamental hearing problem is what actually helps. Their medical-grade aids are designed exactly for that. Worth a look: https://t.co/snfSnLaD3X
Professional fitting recommended. Hope you find something that truly helps you! ❤️

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

👓Completely agree on the learning side. The fact that you can just read the datasheets and reverse-engineer stuff like this is huge.😀

What’s changed in the last few years is how much easier it is to go from understanding → small batch → actual product, especially if you’re in/near Shenzhen.

The part that’s still brutal is making it something normal people would actually want to wear every day.

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

Haha yeah, in those transparent shots it really does look like someone strapped a claymore to your temple 😂

Just to clarify though — this isn’t a prototype. It’s already shipping in volume. Chinese teams have gotten battery integration pretty dialed in at this point (same way phone makers have been squeezing big batteries into thin bodies for years).

There’s already quite a bit of real-world wear feedback on YouTube if you want to see how it actually feels after a full day. We’ve been wearing ours too — happy to DM you our honest take after wearing it for a day if you’re curious.

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

You can literally see the cameras, flexible PCBs, battery, and connectors. This is the kind of hardware that shows how fast Chinese teams are iterating on wearable AI after the Ray-Ban Meta wave.

The real challenge isn’t just making it look clean — it’s hitting the right balance of compute, battery life, thermal, and cost while still being manufacturable at scale.

If you’re building edge AI wearables, these public teardowns are gold for understanding what’s actually possible right now.
#AR #VR #AIglasses #shenzhen #wearable #OEM

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

@yatingzhao_ux 你承包了我今天的笑点 .... （多少钱一个？😂😂）

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

Well spotted at the 0:13 mark , you’ve got a good eye! 👀You’re right, the current video shows the version with a camera. The no-camera model uses the exact same frame and design (we’re calling it the stealth edition). We’re just waiting on our supplier partner for the updated footage.
We also have multiple color and style options available, including transparent frames.
If you have any other thoughts or suggestions, feel free to share — we’ll make sure to pass them along to our supply chain team! If you're ever in Shenzhen, I'd be glad to arrange visits to any factories or companies you'd like to see ：）👓

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

@kristoph @gedawei 😂😂

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

👓I agree that visual context is really valuable for hiking and travel scenarios.

This product is clearly answering the original post’s closing question: 'How are you deciding what not to put on the face?' They chose to skip the camera entirely, prioritizing that low-key 'just looks like regular glasses' discretion and professional feel.

For your specific use cases, though, the power consumption, heat, and privacy costs of adding a camera plus vision models are pretty significant. but we will post more different types soon :)

[Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry]

👓 thank you for looking so closely and for the thoughtful question — we really appreciate the feedback!
The version shown in the current video does include a camera. The no-camera model uses the exact same frame design and overall style. We're currently waiting on our supplier partner for the latest footage of the camera-free version.
Our manufactory partner also offer multiple color and style options, including transparent frames.
If you have any suggestions or ideas, please feel free to share. we’ll make sure to pass them along to our manufactory partner right away.
Happy to share more details if any of the versions interest you!

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@CihunSol @bneiluj 😂

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@Hiraweb3 @bneiluj thank you :)