Tangent Robotics Timeline

Events

• 2026-09-30 - Funding - Tangent Robotics raises $4.5M pre-seed for fine robotic manipulation - Logos Fund and Sparked Ventures also participated in the round. The New York company spun out of Columbia Engineering’s Robotic Manipulation and Mobility Lab. Capital supports development and future deployments in demanding manufacturing environments; no new… - source: afp.com
• 2026-06-25 - Product Launch - Tangent Robotics introduces three-finger TR02 hand - TR02 has 10 actuated degrees of freedom, with seven across the thumb-index chain for full relative fingertip positioning. TR02's dexterous manipulation functions include stable grasps, in-hand object movement, enveloping grasps and simultaneous stabilization… - source: tangentrobotics.ai
• 2026-05-13 - Demonstration - Tangent Robotics demonstrates autonomous visuotactile TR01 skills - Each policy used 30 to 40 complete teleoperated demonstrations plus a similar number of error-correction examples. The fully autonomous dexterous manipulation demonstrations included container flipping, SD-card pickup, threading, unthreading and gear… - source: tangentrobotics.ai
• 2026-04-13 - Capability - Tangent Robotics introduces Popcorn tactile sensor - The sensor streams 14 raw optical signals that can be mapped to the force and torque acting on a fingertip. Popcorn detects forces as low as 0.1 newtons in realistic conditions and is read at 250 hertz without camera-sensor latency. Its electronics are… - source: tangentrobotics.ai
• 2026-03-23 - Capability - Tangent Robotics details TR01 fingertip-tracking teleoperation - TR01 uses eight independently actuated finger degrees of freedom to span the full relative position and orientation space between its fingertips. Magnetic trackers provide sub-millimetre fingertip measurements, while inverse kinematics coordinates the hand… - source: tangentrobotics.ai