# 6thSense

> 6thSense builds wearable tactile sensing rigs that record how human hands actually touch the world - pressure, grip, contact, force, depth, vision and 3D hand pose - out in real homes rather than labs. It packages that multimodal, model-ready data and sells it to teams training the next generation of dexterous robots, positioning itself as a 'nervous system for physical AI.' The company is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch and is based in San Francisco.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** James Baek (Co-Founder & CEO), Ronak Agarwal (Co-Founder), Alex Hyungwoo Noh (Co-Founder), Matt Wulff (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** 6
- **Products:** Tactile data glove, Custom tactile robot skin, Model-ready tactile datasets
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, Raised roughly $660K pre-seed (approx. 1 billion KRW) including Krew Capital, Designs and manufactures its own tactile sensing hardware in-house

## Products & services

- **Tactile data glove** — A wearable rig worn on the human hand that captures pressure, contact, grip and 3D hand pose across eight aligned modalities in real environments.
- **Custom tactile robot skin** — Tactile skin molded to robot hands, engineered so captured human-hand data maps 1-to-1 onto how robotic skin needs to sense.
- **Model-ready tactile datasets** — Pre-calibrated, synchronized multimodal datasets (touch, RGB video, depth, hand pose, IMU, multi-camera views, labels and success/failure outcomes) packaged so robot-learning teams can train directly instead of cleaning raw sensor dumps.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch
- Raised roughly $660K pre-seed (approx. 1 billion KRW) including Krew Capital
- Designs and manufactures its own tactile sensing hardware in-house
- Assembled a founding team drawn from Tesla, Mecka, Samsung, DoorDash and Amazon

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Launched publicly via YC's 'Launch YC: 6thSense - Giving Robots Touch' as part of the Summer 2026 batch.
- **2026-07** — Reported ~$660K (approx. 1 billion KRW) pre-seed backing including Krew Capital.

## Links

- Website: https://6thsense.dev
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/6thsenseai

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Last updated: 2026-07-31