Facts

• Segment: Sensors
• Country: United States
• Website: https://bebopsensors.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Events
• Team
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

BeBop Sensors makes smart fabric sensors and RoboSkin tactile reference designs for robots. Its robotics work focuses on soft, flexible sensing that can be integrated into fingers, limbs and curved robot surfaces to improve contact awareness during manipulation.

Market context

BeBop Sensors supplies flexible tactile sensing for robotic fingers, limbs and surfaces, including RoboSkin reference designs for humanoid and collaborative robot use.

Facts

• Website: https://bebopsensors.com/
• HQ: Berkeley, California, United States
• Segment: Sensors

Events

• 2022-10-13 - Product Launch - BeBop Sensors ships RoboSkin Robo-Finger evaluation system - The Robo-Finger system uses fabric-based sensing for high-resolution tactile data.
• 2022-05-13 - Product Launch - BeBop Sensors introduces RoboSkin tactile covering for robots - RoboSkin is less than 1 mm thick and can be shaped to robotic fingers, limbs, feet, heads, and torsos.
• 2021-09-28 - Deployment - Team Aham selects BeBop Sensors Forte Glove for avatar robot - The glove was integrated into Asha, Team Aham's avatar robot for social tele-robotics.
• 2020-09-04 - Award - BeBop Sensors selected for AFWERX Base of the Future challenge - The challenge selected BeBop from a pool of more than 1,500 submissions.
• 2019-12-16 - Regulatory - BeBop Sensors receives FCC filing for Forte Data Glove - The FCC record identifies BeBop Sensors as the applicant for the Forte Data Glove.

Team

• Keith McMillen - Founder and President - Guides BeBop's fabric-based tactile sensing work, including RoboSkin and robot-finger sensor products.

Context tags

• Tactile sensing - Capability - BeBop Sensors sources describe tactile sensing for robotics or robot-adjacent manipulation systems.
• Robot skin - Stack Layer - BeBop Sensors sources describe robot skin for robotics or robot-adjacent manipulation systems.
• Dexterous manipulation - Capability - BeBop Sensors sources describe dexterous manipulation for robotics or robot-adjacent manipulation systems.

Customers and deployments

• Deployment Event - 1 source-backed deployment event - 2021-09-28 - Team Aham selects BeBop Sensors Forte Glove for avatar robot - source posture: Company Disclosed