AdapTronics wins Infineon’s humanoid robotics startup challenge

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AdapTronics from Italy has won the Infineon Startup Challenge 2026 focused on key technologies for humanoid robots. AdapTronics won with an innovative gripping technology for humanoid robots. COSMOKE of South Korea was runner up with its magnetic tactile sensing technology COSKIN for physical AI, which enables humanoid robots to perceive touch, pressure, and physical interactions; TECHiFAB from Germany came third with an In-Memory Computing based approach to real-time motor control for robotic actuators. More than 100 startups from 29 countries participated, with 15 selected to pitch at the Infineon Startup Challenge Demo Day held during EBSCON in Graz, Austria. As the winner, AdapTronics will join the Infineon Startup Co-Innovation Program to further develop and scale its solution together with Infineon, with the collaboration officially kicking off at the Startup Night in Munich in November.

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Source: Electronics Weekly · 10/19/2026 · View original source