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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.
Mytra
Mytra is a Bay Area robotics company building a software-defined material handling system that uses identical bots moving through a 3D modular lattice to store, sequence and ship warehouse inventory. Founded by ex-Tesla and Rivian leaders Chris Walti and Ahmad Baitalmal in 2022, Mytra has raised roughly $198M (including a $120M Series C in January 2026) and counts Albertsons among its production customers.