# Dexmate

> Dexmate is a Santa Clara robotics startup building Vega, a general-purpose mobile robot with high-payload arms, dexterous hands and a foldable torso that reaches over seven feet. Founded in 2024 by a team out of MIT, UCSD and CMU, the company pairs custom hardware with a data-driven 'flywheel' learning approach - combining simulation and real-world data - to tackle dexterous manipulation for logistics, manufacturing, retail and research. Backed by NVIDIA and LG Technology Ventures, Dexmate has opened preorders for Vega at $89,999.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** Santa Clara, California, United States
- **Founders:** Tao Chen (Co-Founder & CEO), Yuzhe Qin (Co-Founder & CTO), Chongyang Wang (Co-Founder & COO)
- **Team size:** ~27 employees
- **Products:** Vega, Vega U, Dexterous hands & tactile grippers, Robot Copilot, Developer tools
- **Notable:** Designed, built and opened preorders for the Vega general-purpose robot in roughly six months., Dexterous hands reported to achieve ~99% success manipulating thousands of objects., Attracted backing from NVIDIA's ecosystem and LG Technology Ventures.

## Products & services

- **Vega** — General-purpose mobile robot with high-payload arms, dexterous hands, a foldable torso that extends to 2.2 m (7'2") and an omnidirectional wheeled base. Stands 171 cm, ~135 kg, walks at 4 km/h, and is priced at $89,999 (preorder deposit $999).
- **Vega U** — Dual-arm manipulator configuration of the Vega platform aimed at research, data collection and physical-AI development.
- **Dexterous hands & tactile grippers** — Custom robotic hands and tactile grippers reported to achieve ~99% success rates manipulating thousands of objects.
- **Robot Copilot** — AI-assisted system with remote teleoperation that lets human operators guide robots through complex manipulation tasks.
- **Developer tools** — Open-source SDKs and utilities on GitHub including dexcontrol, omniteleop, dexmate-urdf, dexmotion-examples, dexstream, dexdata and vega-firmware.

## Achievements

- Designed, built and opened preorders for the Vega general-purpose robot in roughly six months.
- Dexterous hands reported to achieve ~99% success manipulating thousands of objects.
- Attracted backing from NVIDIA's ecosystem and LG Technology Ventures.
- Founding team publications in Science Robotics and a CoRL best-paper award.
- Publicly demonstrated Vega lifting a barbell at NVIDIA's Santa Clara HQ.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Reported ~$41M equity offering (Form D, first sale Feb 20, 2026); LG CNS investment announced via LG Technology Ventures.
- **2025-03** — Introduced Vega, a general-purpose mobile robot, and opened preorders at $89,999.
- **2024** — Company founded in Santa Clara by Tao Chen, Yuzhe Qin and Chongyang Wang.

## Links

- Website: https://dexmate.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dexmate
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/DexmateAI
- GitHub: https://github.com/dexmate-ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yTuBFz_iRw

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Last updated: 2026-08-06