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James Baek Wants Robots to Get a Feel for the Real World
The 6thSense CEO left Georgia Tech, gathered three close friends and set out to capture the pressure, contact and tiny grip adjustments that cameras miss. His bet is simple: robots will not become dexterous until their training data learns how touch feels.
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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.
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