BeBop Sensors

BeBop Sensors was a Berkeley, California smart-fabric sensor company founded in 2014 that designed and manufactured flexible, fabric-based pressure and touch sensors for OEMs across robotics, medical devices, automotive interiors, and virtual reality. Its best known products were haptic VR gloves and "intelligent sensing technology" surfaces that turned ordinary materials into multi-touch, pressure-sensitive inputs. The company raised a $10M+ Series A led by Bullpen Capital and shipped custom sensor hardware paired with bespoke firmware and integration software for enterprise customers. BeBop sold engineered hardware under contract rather than a self-serve developer product, and never published a public API, developer portal, or SDK. The company is no longer operating and its former domain has been repurposed by an unrelated third party.

BeBop Sensors is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Haptics, Sensors, Wearables, and Virtual Reality.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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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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name: BeBop Sensors
description: BeBop Sensors was a Berkeley, California smart-fabric sensor company founded in 2014 that designed and manufactured
  flexible, fabric-based pressure and touch sensors for OEMs across robotics, medical devices, automotive interiors, and virtual
  reality. Its best known products were haptic VR gloves and "intelligent sensing technology" surfaces that turned ordinary
  materials into multi-touch, pressure-sensitive inputs. The company raised a $10M+ Series A led by Bullpen Capital and shipped
  custom sensor hardware paired with bespoke firmware and integration software for enterprise customers. BeBop sold engineered
  hardware under contract rather than a self-serve developer product, and never published a public API, developer portal,
  or SDK. The company is no longer operating and its former domain has been repurposed by an unrelated third party.
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created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
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x-enrichment-note: 'Re-verified 2026-07-20; the 2026-07-18 finding stands. The registered domain bebopsensors.com / www.bebopsensors.com
  no longer belongs to the BeBop Sensors smart-fabric sensor company: it returns HTTP 200 serving an unrelated French-language
  Canadian online casino affiliate WordPress site (title "Casino en ligne Canada | Top 10 meilleurs casinos payants en 2026",
  content dated 2026-03 to 2026-06). /api, /developer, /docs, /llms.txt and /.well-known/security.txt all 404. The Website
  pointer to that domain was REMOVED this pass so the network does not attribute casino content to this company; the domain
  of record is retained here in the note only. Additional 2026-07-20 probes: GitHub org BeBopSensors (created 2016-01-31)
  exists but has 0 public repositories; no npm or PyPI packages under the name; getbebop.com is a parked HugeDomains for-sale
  listing. The last Wayback capture of the real company site is 2023-03-26, and the 2022-06-01 capture describes APIs only
  as part of bespoke custom-engineering engagements ("we can partner with you to create custom hardware and software, including
  APIs"), never as a public product. Note on provenance: several aggregator pages claim Sensata Technologies acquired BeBop
  in January 2022, but that claim is NOT corroborated by any primary source - the company''s own archived site from June 2022
  contains zero mentions of Sensata, and the Sensata newsroom/SEC results surfaced are about a different acquisition (Custom
  Sensors & Technologies). The acquisition is therefore recorded as unverified and deliberately not asserted as fact. No API,
  SDK, docs, developer portal, or event surface exists to harvest; no artifacts were generated because doing so would require
  fabrication.'
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- Company
- Haptics
- Sensors
- Wearables
- Virtual Reality
- Smart Fabric
- Defunct
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
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