Proception Raises $11M After Settling Tesla Trade Secret Suit, Ships Robot Hands

Executive Briefing

• Settles months-long Tesla trade secret lawsuit, with Tesla dismissing the case earlier this month.
• Raises $11M seed round led by First Round Capital, with Y Combinator and BoxGroup participating.
• Ships first batch of 22-degree-of-freedom dexterous robotic hands to researchers and robotics companies.
• Deploys sensor-laden gloves to collect scalable human hand data without requiring robots in the loop.
• Targets the unsolved 'last mile' of humanoid robotics, which experts say could take a decade to crack.