Tracxn · Jan 2025
Third-party company profile summarizing Sensei as a seed-stage San Francisco robotics company founded in 2024 with $500K raised and competitors including Contoro Robotics, Booster Robotics, and Scortex.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Sensei Robotics is a YC S24 robotics startup building a robotic training-data marketplace: it connects robotics companies with a network of human operators who collect in-the-wild demonstrations using low-cost sensorized devices. The public footprint is small; I found official site pages, YC/company profile pages, LinkedIn profiles, and hiring/compensation signals, but no public GitHub, X, engineering blog, or dedicated careers page.
Primary product
Robotic training-data marketplace and low-cost human-demonstration data-collection platform
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Robotics Engineering
Sub-industry
Robotics training data marketplace / AI infrastructure for robotics
Offices
7 jobs at Sensei
Business model
Mission-driven, early-stage, high-growth robotics startup. Public hiring language emphasizes flexibility, hands-on work, equal opportunity employment, and clear growth paths for operators as the company scales.
Compensation
A public operator posting advertised $27/hour, paid lunch, paid breaks, flexible 20-40 hour weeks, and a possible path to full-time benefits; Indeed later showed average operator pay around $27.47/hour.
Benefits
Pricing
Request-based / custom quote for robotics training-data procurement; beta sign-up for operators
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
≈$0.5M–$3.9M (public third-party estimates vary)
Estimated monthly visits
2.3K
Tracxn · Jan 2025
Third-party company profile summarizing Sensei as a seed-stage San Francisco robotics company founded in 2024 with $500K raised and competitors including Contoro Robotics, Booster Robotics, and Scortex.
Y Combinator · Aug 2024
Official launch post describing Sensei as the 'Scale AI for robotics training data,' with low-cost hardware and a network of paid operators collecting demonstrations.
LinkedIn · Aug 2024
Anubhav Guha announced Sensei's launch, said the team moved to the Bay Area, and described the problem as robotics data scarcity.
LinkedIn · Aug 2024
John Piotti shared the launch and emphasized low-cost data-collection devices, remote operators, and the robotics training-data mission.