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Ex-Tesla Optimus engineer settles trade secret lawsuit and raises $11M to build robot hands
Ex-Tesla Optimus lead Jay Li settled a trade secret lawsuit with Tesla and raised $11M to ship dexterous robot hands from his startup Proception.
TL;DR
- Proception, founded by former Tesla Optimus engineer Jay Li, settled a trade secret lawsuit with Tesla.
- The company raised $11 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital.
- Proception is now shipping its high-dexterity robotic hands to researchers and robotics companies.
- Dexterous manipulation is identified as a significant unsolved problem in robotics.
- Proception uses a sensor-laden glove for data collection, which also serves as the 'skin' for its robotic hand.
- The market for dexterous robot hands has attracted significant capital from other companies globally.
- Proception anticipates that most humanoid robot companies will purchase hands rather than develop them internally.