ProHand
ProHand is Proception AI’s dexterous robotic hand for humanoid and manipulation systems. In June 2026 first batches began shipping to researchers and robotics companies; the hand has 22 degrees of freedom, multiple joints per finger and a sensor-packed glove skin.
Facts
- Company: Proception AI
- Product type: Dexterous Hand
- Status: Shipping
- Capability focus: Dexterous Manipulation
- Website: https://www.proception.ai/product/pro-hand/gen1
Market context
ProHand is Proception AI's early humanoid-hand platform, positioned around fine dexterity and human-like manipulation rather than full robot hardware.
- Target environment: Research labs, humanoid-hand integration benches and fine-manipulation demonstrations.
- Workflow context: Fine manipulation, tactile interaction, dexterous grasping and humanoid end-effector development.
- Customer context: Humanoid developers, manipulation researchers, AI robotics teams and early partners evaluating high-dexterity hands.
- Deployment model: Early product path with public YC positioning and limited public specifications.
- Commercial maturity: Presented robotic hand product line with maturity tied to disclosed specs, integration readiness, and adoption by humanoid or manipulation-platform builders.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on hardware access, validated demos, sensing depth, control APIs, actuator durability and clear integration guidance.
- Market position: ProHand is a focused early-stage hand product comparable to other humanoid-hand startups, with stronger positioning than public spec depth for now.
- Adjacent products: Adjacent to dexterous robotic hands, tactile manipulation research and humanoid end-effector stacks.
Workflow
Fine manipulation, tactile interaction, dexterous grasping and humanoid end-effector development.
Capability
dexterous manipulation
Deployment environment
Research labs, humanoid-hand integration benches and fine-manipulation demonstrations.
Tags
- Peer Group: Robot Hand, Dexterous robotic hand, Robot Hand Components, Teleoperation interfaces
- Workflow: End Effector Manipulation, Dexterous grasping
- Capability: Tactile Dexterity, Tactile sensing, Tactile feedback
- Stack Layer: Manipulation stack layer
Timeline / Research
- 2026-06-29 - Product Launch - Proception launches ProHand and ProGlove for dexterous manipulation - Proception is shipping first ProHand batches to researchers and robotics companies while opening wider orders. ProGlove…
- 2026-06-29 - Funding - Proception raises $11M seed led by First Round Capital - First Round Capital led the seed round. BoxGroup and Y Combinator participated. The round was announced alongside Proception launching ProH…
- 2024-03-01 - Company Formation - Proception launches on Y Combinator with ProHand humanoid hand positioning - Proception disclosed a March 2024 Y Combinator launch on its news page. The company positioned ProHand around…
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