Tacta Systems Unveils Breakthrough Robotic Hands for High-Value Manufacturing

Tacta Systems has unveiled its first product, the TactaBot™, a robotic manipulation platform designed to perform high-value manufacturing tasks requiring human-like dexterity, precision, and touch sensitivity.

The TactaBot combines three core technologies: the Tacta Hand, a Skill Capture system powered by the Tacta Glove™, and a Dexterous Intelligence AI engine. Together, these components aim to enable robots to perform complex operations such as building precision electronics, seating connector cables, and assembling wire harnesses.

The Tacta Hand uses the company's proprietary Fluidic Tendon™ actuation technology with 15 independently actuated joints, delivering human-scale movement, strength, and precision while maintaining industrial reliability across millions of operating cycles.

Tacta Systems has also developed advanced tactile sensors, smaller than a grain of sand, that recognize a full dynamic range of human touch from 250 pascals to 700,000 pascals. The sensors sample at 400 times per second and can resolve temperature within a tenth of a degree.

The company's Skill Capture system uses the Tacta Glove to collect motion, force, video, and temperature data from workers performing manufacturing tasks. This data is used to train the Dexterous Intelligence AI models, improving robotic adaptability and reducing training time for new tasks.

Co-founded by serial entrepreneurs Andreas Bibl (Executive Chairman) and Vikram Pavate (CEO), Tacta Systems has raised $75 million from investors including Matter Venture Partners, America's Frontier Fund, SoftBank, Woven Capital, B Capital, Yazaki Innovations Inc., EDBI, Sojitz Corporation, CDIB-TEN Capital, B5 Capital, and Tyche Partners.

Vikram Pavate, co-founder and CEO of Tacta Systems, stated:

"Everyone is talking about a trillion-dollar market for robots, but the technology isn't there yet, because robots still can't use their hands. The hand is the hardest problem in robotics, and it can't be solved without touch. We built the entire stack, the hands, the sensing, and the intelligence, so robots can finally do the physical work our economy depends on, and so we can start bringing that work home."

Wen Hsieh, Founding Managing Partner of Matter Venture Partners, stated:

"Nearly every major technology trend of the next decade will be built on hard tech, and dexterous manipulation is one of the hardest and most valuable problems in the space. This is a team that has built and scaled category-defining hardware before, more than once. They are among the very few in the world capable of solving this, and they have clearly built the best robotic hands in the world."

Will Fung, Principal at Woven Capital, stated:

"Replicating the dexterity, sensitivity, and resilience of the human hand is the challenge that has long defined robotic manipulation. Tacta is unlocking this breakthrough by developing a full-stack solution enabling robots to perform complex, dexterous tasks that only human hands have been capable of. We're excited to work alongside Tacta as they pioneer the future of robotic manipulation and enable new capabilities in industrial automation."

The TactaBot is scheduled to ship in early 2027 for deployment with initial customers in the electronics, AI infrastructure, and automotive manufacturing industries, with plans to expand into medical devices, aerospace, and defense.