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Exclusive: Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise
The startup, Proception, is taking a unique approach to collecting training data to tackle one of the hardest problems in robotics: hands.
TL;DR
- Proception, founded by former Tesla employee Jay Li, settled a trade secret lawsuit with Tesla.
- The startup announced an $11 million seed funding round led by First Round Capital.
- Proception is developing "high-dexterity robotic hands" for researchers and robotics companies.
- Their unique data collection method involves sensor-laden gloves to capture human hand interaction data without a robot.
- This approach aims to overcome limitations of teleoperation, such as lack of sensory feedback and scalability.
- The robotic hand features 22 degrees of freedom and multiple joints per finger for dexterous motions.
- Proception believes their combination of hardware and scalable data collection is key to solving the problem of dextrous manipulation in robotics.