Tacterion

Tacterion develops plyon tactile sensor technology for smart surfaces and force-sensing products. Founded as a DLR spin-off in Munich, the company provides flexible sensing skins that can bring pressure and interaction sensing to robots, machines and human-machine interfaces.

Facts

Segment: Robotics Sensors
Country: Germany
Founded: 2015
Website: https://www.tacterion.com/

Market context

Comparable profiles and adjacent companies connected by shared workflow, capability, or stack position.

Touchence - comparable profile - capability: Force Sensing
FUTEK - comparable profile - capability: Force Sensing
BeBop Sensors - stack adjacency - capability: Tactile Sensing

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Timeline

2016-09-26 - Partnership - tacterion secures long-term Unger Group commitment - tacterion secured a long-term Unger Group commitment in 2016. The announcement gave tacterion an industrial partner for scaling flexible tactile sensor technology. The work linked tacterion's sensor-skin approach to smart components and robotics use cases. - source: imittelstand.de

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Team

Michael Strohmayr - Co-Founder - Helped establish the DLR-origin sensor-skin technology base behind tacterion's plyon product family.
Daniel Strohmayr - Co-Founder - Helped form tacterion around flexible tactile sensing technology and its commercialization path.

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