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Proception has launched its first products, ProHand 1.0 and ProGlove 1.0. - 22 total DoF with 18 actuated DoF (including a 2-DoF wrist) - Tendon-driven fingers, 4 joints each - On-board control for 10 ms real-time response - Every actuator reports its full state continuously, fused with a forearm IMU - On-board real-time compute Client SDKs - Integrated wrist camera The robot hand is wearing ProGlove 1.0, a 1.3 mm textile glove for low-latency sensing.

Just closed $11M from @firstround Capital... @proceptionAI! The same day Tesla dropped its trade secret lawsuit against them. I caught up with CEO @JayLiStanford in Palo Alto earlier this year: Backstory: Jay led hand engineering on Tesla's Optimus. He left, started Proception, and got sued by his old employer six days later. Almost a year of litigation. He called it a "resilience test." Now it's over, the round is closed, and Proception just shipped its first batch of hands. What are they building? ProHand, a tendon-driven hand, 20 DOF plus a 2-DOF wrist, covered in full tactile skin. It reacts to contact like a real hand, because that's what trains the model underneath it. The real unlock is the data: Most teleoperation needs a robot in the loop and zero tactile feedback. Proception's ProGlove uses the same sensor skin as the hand: humans wear it, do tasks with their own hands, and it captures real contact data with no robot involved. Hiring is one of the biggest bottlenecks, Jay says, not supply chain, not the tech. Standard founder problem, just at robot-hand difficulty. Dexterous hands are the unsolved piece of humanoid robotics. Musk has called it one of the hardest engineering problems out there. Jay and his team think they'll get there faster than people expect... (Longer episode out soon) More about the hand here: proception.ai/product/pro-ha… Congrats to @JayLiStanford, @_jaku_xu and the entire team for this milestone!!!! ——- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: 22astronauts.com

You can find out more about the remarkable product Proception is building in this @TechCrunch story out today: techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/ro…

There’s one factory in the US that has figured out how to compete with China when it comes to making metal parts. We went to Reno to see how SendCutSend operates.

We pushed Fusion pretty hard while building ProHand. When standard CAD workflows weren’t enough, we built our own tools with Autodesk Fusion’s Python API. It removed a lot of painful manual work and helped us iterate much faster. autodesk.com/products/fusion…

Manipulation happens through surfaces. To understand contact-rich dexterous interaction, motion alone is not enough. We also need to know surface properties and contact state. Excited to share ART-Glove, an articulated tactile glove that captures contact-grounded information while preserving human dexterity. It provides: - Known Geometry: 16 rigid functional surfaces - Surface Motion: 22 anatomically aligned joints - Tactile Contact: 2048 piezoresistive taxels Huge thanks to my advisor Ding @zhao__ding, and to Yuxiang @yxyang1995, Maria @bauzavillalonga, Marissa, and Peide @peide_huang for the valuable advice and discussions. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.16370