The wider robotics field includes NVIDIA’s Isaac development platform and Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot. GENTO, an independent humanoid robot brand incubated by Tianji Intelligence, builds complete humanoid systems on top of Tianji Intelligence’s TIANJI-branded force-controlled arm technology, giving AI models a way to act in the physical world. This week, at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2026) in Austin, GENTO arrives at CoRL for the first time, exhibiting at Booth 602 until 1:00 p.m. local time on November 11.
Why Force Control Is the Missing Layer
A robot that can plan and reason still has to touch things. Assembly, insertion, operating a screwdriver, wiping — most of the work humans do with their hands involves continuous contact with objects and surfaces, not clean trajectories through open air. A system without force sensing can execute a pre-planned motion, but it cannot adapt when a part resists, a surface shifts, or an object is slightly out of position. It also cannot contribute useful data to training, because the force signals that describe what contact actually feels like never get captured.
Tianji Intelligence began developing in-house MEMS torque sensors in 2015, eleven years before this week’s CoRL exhibit. The result of that work is a sensor-to-system stack that the company reports as detecting torque down to 0.02 N·m, against an industry norm of 1–5 N·m, with absolute force control accuracy within 0.3 N·m and a torque-loop bandwidth of 160 Hz on its core arm platforms. The sensors feed into integrated joint modules that fold the motor, reducer, driver, encoder, and brake into a single unit roughly 25% lighter than comparable designs, and from there into four-loop closed-loop compliant impedance control. The company says Cartesian stiffness reaches 15,000 N/m. The full chain runs from a single torque reading to a robot that can regulate exactly how hard it pushes.
The Product Line at CoRL
GENTO humanoid robots are equipped with TIANJI-branded robotic arms—the M6-Lite, M6, and M20—which cover the range from data collection to heavy industrial handling. Each arm runs 7 degrees of freedom with an anthropomorphic cross-axis wrist that eliminates singularities and makes teleoperation feel closer to natural arm movement. The M6 has logged more than 10,000 cumulative deliveries and offers an open SDK rated for 1 kHz real-time control. The M20 extends the payload to 20 kg per arm for heavier manipulation work, though its torque-loop bandwidth steps down to 120 Hz.
GENTO’s whole-body systems bring those arms into a mobile, humanoid form. Two platforms are on display in Austin. GENTO Luna, built on TIANJI M6S Lite arms and fitted with GENTO’s in-house dexterous hands, runs a teleoperation demo in which visitors’ movements are mirrored by the robot in real time, with the robot then handing an object back to the visitor. TIANJI Marvin Pro, the fixed-base dual-arm platform powered by TIANJI M6 arms and an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64GB compute unit, demonstrates voice-command grasping: a visitor describes an object, and TIANJI Marvin Pro identifies and retrieves it from a group. GENTO is also showcasing its proprietary 21-degree-of-freedom dexterous hand prototype for the first time at CoRL. GENTO positions the hand as the final tier of its five-level product stack, connecting MEMS sensing to a complete manipulation system.
Its central selling point is a single mechanical architecture designed to address four persistent problems in dexterous hands together. High-precision, low-clearance linkage transmission reduces backlash; an impact- and overload-resistant transmission structure addresses mechanical fragility; backdrivable joints allow external forces to move the fingers, supporting compliant interaction alongside MIT force/position hybrid control; and an efficient linkage mechanism delivers greater rated fingertip force within the same finger dimensions. Together, these features reflect GENTO’s approach to solving longstanding mechanical challenges as a system, with precision, durability, backdrivability, and gripping force addressed within the same design.
TIANJI Marvin Pro Powers NVIDIA’s GR00T 2 Demonstrations
GENTO’s CoRL appearance also extends to NVIDIA’s GR00T 2 launch. NVIDIA used a TIANJI Marvin Pro platform, developed by Tianji Intelligence with a tailored head and body, to demonstrate its new world action model. Built on NVIDIA Cosmos, GR00T 2 predicts future video and robot actions together to learn how physical interactions unfold.
In one demonstration, researchers recorded human hand movements with a wearable exoskeleton and transferred those skills to the robot, fitted with two dexterous hands, for tasks such as preparing banana yogurt. The demonstration provides a concrete example of learned robot policies being put into action on TIANJI Marvin Pro.
The Deployment Signal Behind the Demos
The CoRL appearance comes at a specific moment for the company. Tianji Intelligence has delivered more than 2,000 force-controlled humanoid arms within a four-month window in 2025, and more than 30,000 industrial robots cumulatively across its history. It now counts 45-plus production or supply relationships with OEMs and embodied-AI companies, along with over 400 cumulative customers that include university research labs at Stanford, CMU, Cornell, and the University of Chicago. In May 2026, the company closed a RMB 1 billion Series B/B+ round led by Hillhouse Ventures and Meituan, followed by a strategic Series B++ from Ant Group and Sofina in September. Collaborative demonstrations have included piano playing, milkshake mixing, and liquid handling.
GENTO’s framing for all of it is captured in the brand tagline “Touching the World Gently.” Getting force control right is what separates a robot that can perform a scripted demo from one that can operate reliably in a production environment, handling the contact, resistance, and variation that real tasks involve. Whether that case lands with the research community in Austin — a room full of people who study exactly this problem — is part of what makes the CoRL appearance worth watching.
GENTO is exhibiting at Booth 602, JW Marriott Austin, Level 3, until 1:00 p.m. local time on November 11.
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