6thSense
6thSense builds tactile capture hardware for robot learning, offering the Skin wearable sensor with a 464-channel tactile array and the Eye2 Pro egocentric stereo camera that records first-person video synced to touch data. The synchronized force and visual data pipeline helps robots achieve precise grip control, with research cited by the company showing touch raises task success rates from roughly 50% to over 80%.
- Robotics
- Hardware
- Artificial Intelligence
Funding
Raised to date
$500KRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
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Product
Problem
Robots can recognize objects visually but cannot feel them, making precise grip control difficult. Vision alone captures what to pick but not how much force to apply, leading to failures in tasks requiring delicate manipulation, such as picking a strawberry without crushing it.
Solution
6thSense provides the touch layer for robot learning with two hardware products: Skin, a wearable tactile sensor that records force across the hand, and Eye2 Pro, an egocentric camera that captures first-person video synced to touch data. This synchronized tactile-visual capture pipeline feeds robot learning systems with both force and visual context, enabling more precise grip control and manipulation. Research cited by the company indicates that adding touch raises task success rates from roughly 50% to over 80%.
Target Audience
Primary customers are robotics research labs, robotics startups, and AI teams developing dexterous manipulation systems that require tactile data for training and evaluating robot policies.
Features
- Skin features a 464-channel tactile array covering fingertips, finger pads, and palm with 12-bit force resolution (~0.1N)
- Skin includes a 9-axis IMU and AprilTag fiducial markers for optical hand-pose tracking, streaming data at 200 Hz over USB or Wi-Fi
- Eye2 Pro uses dual global-shutter stereo cameras at 1920×1200 resolution, 30 fps, with a 132° diagonal field of view and calibrated 80 mm stereo baseline
- Eye2 Pro embeds frame-synced inertial data from accelerometer and gyroscope (~300 Hz) directly in the video stream, eliminating clock synchronization issues
- Both devices support Wi-Fi, USB-C, and automatic cloud upload for streamlined data collection in real-world environments