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Training Data · Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Mecca Developing Custom Tactile Gloves to Capture Force Data for Robots

To address the limitations of standard video data, Mecca CEO Josh Gao revealed that his company is developing custom hardware such as tactile gloves to measure how much force in Newtons humans apply during daily tasks.

personJosh GaocompanyMecca.ai

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“So we've been developing things like gloves for humans to wear. And in those gloves, being able to collect the information in how much force it takes to do your daily life and different tasks.”
Josh Gao
Heard on Training Data — “Inside the Robot Data Factory: Mecka's Josh Gao on Sensorizing Humans to Train Robots”, published Tuesday, October 20, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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Mecca Developing Custom Tactile Gloves to Capture Force Data for Robots — Heardvine