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6thSense

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).

6thSense is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Robotics, Physical AI, Tactile Sensing, and Hardware.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyRoboticsPhysical AITactile SensingHardwareMachine LearningDatasetsRobot ManipulationSensorsY Combinator

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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:
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  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