First Contact — Tactile sensing for robots

Demo

Capture contact across 847 real taxels, 240 times per second. Novel composite sensing technology

Real footage beside the live taxel field — both hands

Technical specs

Coverage, density, and speed where you need it most.

With coverage on the sides of the fingers.

Pressure heatmap captured from a pair of First Contact gloves — every taxel across both hands rendered as a dot, dim purple at rest and brightening through orange to white where the fingers and palm are pressing.

847 channels per hand — one of 240 frames per second

How it compares

Spec	First Contact	Wuji	JQ	Proception
Taxels / hand	847	526	162	96
Per finger	50–80	45–58	12	—
Per fingertip	35+	—	—	—
Max pressure / taxel	30 N	20 N	—^*	—^*
Precision	0.05 N	0.1 N	0.01 N	0.1 N
Full-array rate	240 Hz	120 Hz	100 Hz	500 Hz
Operating range	−20 to 60 °C	−5 to 40 °C	−20 to 60 °C	—
Interface	USB-C	USB-C	USB-C · Bluetooth	UART / USB
IMU / EMF tracking	✓	✓	—	✓
SDK	Python	Python	Serial protocol	Python & C++
Price / pair	$3,000early batch · $3,500 with mocap	$5,800	$2,000	—

* JQ reports 350 N and Proception 125 N, but it is unclear whether these figures are per taxel or per hand.

Competitor figures as published by each maker, reviewed July 2026.

SDK

Ships with the glove.

session.py

# Python 3.10+
import sdk

# connect and read
glove = sdk.connect("fcglv001")
frame = glove.latest()      # force (60, 40)

for p in glove.receive():   # per-taxel updates
    p["taxel_id"], p["force"], p["timestamp"]

# both hands, one calibration, one file
pair = sdk.connect_pair(left="fcglv001",
                        right="fcglv002",
                        calibration="alice")
pair.start_recording("session.txid")
pair.visualize()

First Contact Tactile Glove

$200fully-refundable deposit (per pair)

Applied to your order — choose your quantity at checkout

The glove
Capture software
Early-batch price — $3,000 / pair, or $3,500 with mocap

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