aid: 6thsense
name: 6thSense
description: 6thSense is a physical-AI hardware company building the touch layer for dexterous
  robots. It designs and manufactures wearable tactile-sensing data gloves that capture how human
  hands interact with the world — pressure, contact, grip, and 3D hand pose — alongside custom
  tactile skin molded to robot hands. Its capture stack synchronizes eight aligned modalities
  (tactile and pressure proxies, egocentric video, depth/RGB-D, hand pose, motion and IMU dynamics,
  wrist and scene cameras, dense labels and commentary, and success/failure outcomes) into
  model-ready demonstration datasets used to train the next generation of dexterous,
  manipulation-capable robots. Founded in 2026 in San Francisco and backed by Y Combinator (S26).
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://6thsense.dev/og-image-v2.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/6thsense/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- Robotics
- Physical AI
- Tactile Sensing
- Hardware
- Machine Learning
- Datasets
- Robot Manipulation
- Sensors
- Y Combinator
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://6thsense.dev/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/6thsenseai
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/6thsense-domain-security.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence