The Component Layer Gets Its Moment When most observers track China's humanoid robotics boom, they watch the integrators — the companies assembling full-body robots and chasing billion-yuan valuations. Zhixing Robotics' consecutive Series B+ and B++ rounds, totalling nearly 100 million yuan (≈$14 million), are a reminder that the real infrastructure race is happening one layer down: in the grippers, actuators, and dexterous hands that determine whether any embodied robot can actually do useful work. The fact that a component specialist founded in 2018 — well before the current hype cycle — is now closing back-to-back rounds with institutional backing suggests investors are moving from betting on robot concepts to betting on the parts those robots cannot function without. ## What Zhixing Actually Builds Zhixing Robotics is not building a humanoid. It is building what goes at the end of one's arm — and that distinction matters enormously. The company's…