# Proception

> Proception is a Palo Alto and Mountain View robotics company building the dexterous robotic hand that humanoids are missing. Its flagship ProHand 1.0 packs 22 degrees of freedom, tendon-driven fingers and skin-like tactile sensors into a hand designed with input from surgeons - close enough to a human hand that robots can learn directly from human demonstration. A companion sensor glove, ProGlove, captures real human manipulation data at scale to train those movements. Founded in 2024 by former Tesla Optimus engineers Jay Li and Jack Xu, the company raised an $11M seed led by First Round Capital and is shipping its first hands to research labs and robotics companies.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto / Mountain View, California, United States
- **Founders:** Jay Li (Co-Founder & CEO), Jack Xu (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~10-11 employees
- **Products:** ProHand 1.0, ProGlove
- **Notable:** Raised $11M seed led by First Round Capital (2026), Settled Tesla trade-secret lawsuit and closed seed round on the same day (June 2026), Graduated Y Combinator Winter 2025 batch

## Products & services

- **ProHand 1.0** — A high-dexterity humanoid robotic hand with 22 degrees of freedom, multi-jointed tendon-driven fingers, skin-like tactile sensors for contact detection, and an impact-tolerant mechanical design developed with input from hand surgeons. Built for researchers and robotics companies working on contact-rich manipulation.
- **ProGlove** — A sensor-equipped wearable glove that captures real human hand movements and tactile data at scale - without a robot in the loop - to train AI manipulation models. The same sensing tech doubles as skin for the robotic hand.

## Achievements

- Raised $11M seed led by First Round Capital (2026)
- Settled Tesla trade-secret lawsuit and closed seed round on the same day (June 2026)
- Graduated Y Combinator Winter 2025 batch
- Shipped first batch of ProHand units to research labs and robotics companies
- Built a robotic hand with 22 degrees of freedom designed with input from hand surgeons

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Announced $11M seed round led by First Round Capital, with Y Combinator and BoxGroup participating.
- **2026-06** — Settled Tesla's trade-secret lawsuit against co-founder Jay Li; case dismissed.
- **2026-06** — Introduced ProHand publicly and began shipping first units to researchers and robotics companies.
- **2025-03** — Earliest recorded seed activity; company emerged from stealth around this period showing an early humanoid hand.

## Links

- Website: https://proception.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/proceptionai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ProceptionAI
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ProceptionAI

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Last updated: 2026-07-03