The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Tactile Robotics: 1 model. 4 sources back the record.
Overview
Tactile Robotics is a robotics and AI company developing haptic and tactile sensing platforms for robotic hands and manipulation systems. Founded and led by CEO Yaser Maddahi, the company focuses on bringing human-like touch capabilities to robots.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
CEO
Focus
TactileX platform
Medical and dental education focus
Medical and education robotics platforms (primary Tactile Robotics)
TactileX haptic platform (primary Tactile Robotics)
Data & sources
Web sources
4
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Models (1)
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Every company Tactile Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Peachscore1× joint
Most recent
Tactile Robotics on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Yaser Maddahi CEOreported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Tactile Robotics.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Tactile Robotics in third-party press
Shanghai AI Lab Ships Intern Physical World Model W0 for Force-Tactile Robotics
World Tactile Sensor Fingertips - Market Analysis, Forecast, Size, Trends and Insights - IndexBox
Simulated cats and elephants with touch-based memory help usher in new age of robotics - Tech Xplore
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company Tactile Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1Peachscore1× joint
All 1 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Tactile Robotics x Peachscore (Startup Acceleration)withPeachscoredevelopment—operating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 7, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (4)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-29
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-29
Sources by quality tier
- 4
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Tactile Robotics.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Tactile Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Shanghai AI Lab Ships Intern Physical World Model W0 for Force-Tactile Robotics
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory released Intern physical world model W0 with native force-tactile sensing and duplex collaboration, linking it to Intern InkStone and…
World Tactile Sensor Fingertips - Market Analysis, Forecast, Size, Trends and Insights - IndexBox
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Simulated cats and elephants with touch-based memory help usher in new age of robotics - Tech Xplore
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Elephants Have 1,000 Delicate Whiskers on Their Trunks, and They May Transform Robotics - discovermagazine.com
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Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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Inside SharpaWave: The Visuo-Tactile Robotic Hand Moving from Viral Demo to Mass Production - Intelligent Living
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Microsoft Research unveils Rho-alpha robotics model combining vision, language and touch - Robotics & Automation News
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Training tactile sensors to learn force sensing from each other - Nature
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Prestigious research fellowship awarded to King's engineer to unlock the power of tactile robotics - King's College London
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Simulation Tools Advance Distributed Tactile Sensing - Quantum Zeitgeist
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The robotics transformation 🤖 and the Kiva robots 🚚 in Amazon's logistics and distribution centers 📦 - Xpert.Digital - Konrad Wolfenstein
<a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE5kMzlNT0hhWUt6blhGb05ydFJHdDJwMG5FSmJxR2tEcjQ3SXM0SzQtQmRGOFBiNGtRUnp3SU12ekpmMU5kUHpTSHJ6TWQ3d2pTY1dTb2pENzVaUQ?oc=5"…
Recapping Robotics Summit & Expo 2025 - The Robot Report
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/tactile-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/tactile-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/02d0f03a-1193-4883-88bc-ac0293c75a23
- Revision history: /companies/tactile-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious52/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Tactile Robotics draws attention at the 48th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 4, 2026