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.
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Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
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
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
B2B data marketplace
hardware + software platform
data procurement / training-data service
Funding
People & investors
Work & culture
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
health insurance
paid lunch
paid breaks
free Costco snacks
happy hours
flexible 20-40 hour weeks
flexible 4-8 hour shifts
growth and career development
full-time benefits opportunity
leadership or technical career tracks
Product & market
Pricing
Request-based / custom quote for robotics training-data procurement; beta sign-up for operators
Differentiators
- —Under-$300 data-collection platform
- —sensorized exoskeleton arm with angle, vision, and inertial sensors
- —distributed network of paid human operators ('Senseis')
- —in-the-wild training data collection
- —Claims of 10x cheaper and 2x faster collection than current teleop approaches
- —Combined hardware + software marketplace model
- —Remote operator model
Technology
hardware + software platform
sensorized exoskeleton arm
angle sensors
vision sensors
inertial sensors
teleoperation
Customers
robotics companies
robotics researchers
robotics engineers
Competitors
Contoro Robotics
Booster Robotics
Scortex
Olivaw
AvaWatz
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$0.5M–$3.9M (public third-party estimates vary)
Estimated monthly visits
2.3K
Latest news
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.
Jobs and careers at Sensei
7 jobs at Sensei
Cafeteria Prep Cook
On-site
Culinary
Rancho Mirage, CA; Rancho Mirage, California, United States
1d ago
On-site
Full-time
Server III (Part-Time) PM Shift
On-site
Food & Beverage
Rancho Mirage, CA; Rancho Mirage, California, United States
1d ago
On-site
Full-time
Sushi Cook, Sensei by Nobu
On-site
Culinary
Rancho Mirage, CA; Rancho Mirage, California, United States
1w ago
On-site
Full-time
Greenskeeper
On-site
Golf
Rancho Mirage, CA; Rancho Mirage, California, United States
1w ago
On-site
Full-time
Golf Course Maintenance, Irrigation Technician
On-site
Golf
Rancho Mirage, CA; Rancho Mirage, California, United States
2w ago
On-site
Full-time
Assistant-In-Training, Golf Course Maintenance
On-site
Golf
Rancho Mirage, CA.; Rancho Mirage, California, United States
2w ago
On-site
Full-time
Housekeeping - Public Areas Attendant
On-site
Housekeeping
Rancho Mirage, CA; Rancho Mirage, California, United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time