Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 10/23/2026, 00:58:51
Maxinsights Raises $30M Seed to Launch MaxGlove for Robot Force Data Collection
Embodied AI data firm Maxinsights secured a $30M seed round and launched MaxGlove, a device capturing tactile and force data from human hands in real homes. This addresses the critical gap in robot manipulation training where vision-only data fails to capture force dynamics, aiming to build a million-hour dataset of high-quality operational signals.
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Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-10-22 16
Homes are becoming one of the richest places to collect robot training data, but its not as simple as just recording a video.
Hand force data is becoming one of the most useful signals in robot manipulation.
MaxGlove, from @Maxinsights records touch and force from people’s hands while they work, the layer of a grasp a camera can’t capture.
Pressure decides most of a grasp, whether the glass slides out or cracks. The correction when something starts to slip begins in the fingertips, usually before a camera can pick it up.
A policy trained only on video learns the shape of a grasp and has to infer the force. Glove data supplies the force directly, from people handling the objects robots will be asked to handle.
Maxinsights says it’s aiming for a million hours of force data by 2027, on top of the 2M+ hours of footage captured so far.
↳ 引用 @BrianYN (YG (Yuguang Yuan)): Robots learn by watching people work. Most of what they watch is staged.
At @Maxinsights, we capture real work at natural speed in real homes, restaurants, and hotels. 2M+ hours so far.
Today we’re announcing a $30M seed round led by @PeakXVPartners, plus two new products:
MaxLoop: same-day quality scores on every clip MaxGlove: touch and force data a camera can't capture
Thank you to our investors, builders, operators and customers. More to come.
