PaXini unveils low-cost tactile robots for embodied AI at CES

PaXini’s CES announcement is a quiet but consequential move in the embodied AI race. Most of the AGI discourse still fixates on ever-larger language models, yet building systems that can robustly act in the physical world will require cheap, high-fidelity sensors and standardized robot bodies. By pushing 0.01 N force resolution and multi-dimensional tactile sensing into sub-$50 components, PaXini is trying to do for touch what commodity cameras did for machine vision a decade ago.([prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paxini-to-debut-at-ces-2026-advancing-embodied-ai-infrastructure-through-tactile-sensing-302649554.html)) That dramatically lowers the barrier for labs, startups and even hobbyists to experiment with dexterous manipulation and humanoid control.

Strategically, PaXini is positioning itself as infrastructure for “embodied intelligence” rather than just another robot OEM. A stack that spans tactile sensors, dexterous hands, humanoid platforms and curated embodied datasets gives developers a reference hardware and data layer on which to run increasingly capable control and world-model policies. If they can scale manufacturing and keep prices low, this could accelerate the feedback loop between model developers and real-world deployment, especially in Asia where cost sensitivity is high. In the broader race to AGI, progress in grounded, sensor-rich interaction is one of the missing pieces; PaXini’s bet is that touch will be as important as tokens.