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One Beijing supplier — Link-touch — now ships 72–80% of China's humanoid six-axis force sensors, and reports 95% of the joint torque sensors. How the lead was built, what the numbers actually measure, and why the win reads as a queue, not a market.
(Six-Axis Force Sensors — and the Concentration Risk That Came With the Win)
Junction Brief is not another news roundup. Each issue makes a single claim about China's robotics supply chain — and proves it with data you can't easily get elsewhere.
How to read a Chinese supplier's website like an auditor. Factory claims, certificate walls, export footprints — decoded.
Harmonic reducers, force sensors, motor drivers. Real market shares, honest evidence grades — gaps labeled as gaps.
BOM rules, tariff math, sanctions screening. Checklists your team can actually use on Monday morning.
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