Proception Inc GTM brain

Proception supplies dexterous robotic hands and motion-capture gloves to robotics companies and research labs.

category

Dexterous robotic manipulation hardware

market profile

  • text: Conventional grippers struggle with contact-rich tasks, creating demand for more human-like robotic manipulation.
  • text: Robotics teams need scalable real-world manipulation data as well as capable hands; Proception offers hardware for both.

personas

  • title: Robotics research lead
    pains:
    • Existing grippers cannot perform diverse contact-rich tasks
    • Teleoperation data collection is limited by robot availability
  • title: Humanoid hardware engineering lead
    pains:
    • Building and servicing a compact dexterous hand in-house is difficult
    • Integrating tactile sensing and high degrees of freedom into a hand
  • title: Robot learning team lead
    pains:
    • Obtaining human manipulation data at scale
    • Teleoperation can miss direct human contact and pressure signals

icp

  • text: Robotics companies developing humanoids or other systems requiring dexterous manipulation, and university or industrial research labs.
  • text: Teams able to integrate research hardware and capture manipulation data, with manufacturing, logistics or healthcare applications under exploration.

message pillars

  • text: Deliver human-like dexterity in a robotic hand.
  • text: Use tactile sensing for contact-rich manipulation.
  • text: Collect human manipulation data without tying up a robot.
  • text: Design hardware for serviceability.

objections

  • objection: Can the hand survive real-world use and be maintained?
    response: Evaluate its stated impact resistance and serviceability in a representative task and duty cycle.
  • objection: Will it integrate with our robot and learning stack?
    response: Discuss interfaces, teleoperation and data formats with the team and validate on a pilot unit.

competitors

  • name: Shadow Robot
    why: Its Shadow Dexterous Hand serves research teams requiring articulated manipulation.
  • name: Wonik Robotics
    why: Its Allegro Hand is another dexterous robot hand for research.
  • name: Linkerbot
    why: Supplies dexterous humanoid robot hands.

keywords

  • dexterous robotic hand
  • humanoid robot hand
  • robot manipulation data glove
  • tactile robotic hand
  • robot teleoperation hardware
  • robot learning human demonstration

voice

  • technically specific
  • ambitious and research-oriented

signals

  • text: A humanoid program hiring manipulation researchers or sourcing end effectors may be evaluating hands.
  • text: A lab expanding imitation learning or teleoperation datasets may need glove-based human data capture.

stack

  • tendon-driven actuation
  • tactile sensors
  • teleoperation

hiring

  • Robotics Technician (Assembly & Testing), listed on YC jobs

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • YC launch
  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • YouTube
  • industry events

confidence

medium

Founders

  • name: Jay Li
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Working on humanoid. Stanford alumni
  • name: Jack Xu
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: UWaterloo Alumni, Ex-Tesla Engineer, Ex-Trexo [YC 19]

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