Touchence

Touchence develops tactile sensors and modules, including the Shokac sensor family for measuring multi-axis force. Its small force sensors have been used in robotic gripper research, making the company relevant to touch-enabled manipulation and gripper feedback.

Facts

Segment: Robotics Sensors
Country: Japan
Website: https://www.touchence.jp/en/

Market context

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

FUTEK - comparable profile - capability: Force Sensing
Tacterion - comparable profile - capability: Force Sensing
WEISS Robotics - stack adjacency - capability: Force Sensing

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Timeline

2019-11-12 - Partnership - Touchence licenses Kagawa University tactile-sensor technology - The license agreement began on November 12, 2019. The agreement covered tactile-sensor technology from Kagawa University. Touchence began development of third-generation tactile sensors under the agreement. - source: touchence.jp

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Team

Kenichi Ogata - President - Oversees Touchence's Shokac tactile sensor business for robot hands and touch interfaces.

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