# Xspark AI: AI company

Canonical ID: `72c252b1-065e-4e65-8c2f-3021e29c0ef0`

## Key facts

- **Spark-0 tactile pretraining (company-claimed):** Spark-0 is pretrained with 1,000 hours of human tactile glove data (HumanTouch). With cameras only at test time, Ego [Humanoid](/humanoids) success rose from 52.5% to 71.7% vs [vision-only](/glossary/vision-only.md) pretraining.
- **Spark-0 with touch at deployment (company-claimed):** On SparkArena-Real, five tactile-conditioned real-robot tasks, success rose from 44.0% to 52.0% vs [vision-only](/glossary/vision-only.md) pretraining on the same data and compute.

- **Slug:** xspark-ai
- **Status:** private

## Models

_No models registered._

## Supplies to

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## Common questions

### What is Xspark AI?

[Embodied](/companies/embodied-moxie.md) AI company behind the Spark-0 tactile robot manipulation model, the HumanTouch tactile glove dataset and the SparkArena benchmark. Spark-0's authors include researchers from Xspark AI, [Tsinghua University](/companies/tsinghua-university.md) and MMLab at the University of [Hong Kong](/locations/hong-kong.md).

### What does Xspark AI make?

Xspark AI has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Xspark AI builds robot foundation models or autonomy software.

### Is Xspark AI publicly traded?

No. Xspark AI is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Xspark AI?

Xspark AI is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today.

### Who owns Xspark AI?

Xspark AI is privately held; ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

### Is Xspark AI a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Xspark AI ranks in roughly the top 70% of companies tracked by the registry.


## Sources (2)

1. **Spark-0: Scaling Spatially Aligned Tactile Pretraining for Robot Dexterous Manipulation** · https://xsparkai.com/Spark-0 · 2026-10-16
2. **Spark-0: Scaling Spatially Aligned Tactile Pretraining for Robot Dexterous Manipulation** · https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22342 · 2026-10-16

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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