What BeBop Sensors does

BeBop Sensors, Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, Berkeley, California-based sensor technology company founded in 2014 that develops tactile sensing solutions for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to integrate into their products. The company's core technology centers on flexible and multi-modal tactile sensors designed for robotics applications, enabling robots to sense touch and pressure with the goal of improving dexterity, safety, and operational precision in automated environments. Primary customer segments are identified as the robotics industry, spanning industrial robotics and healthcare robotics use cases, with a vertical segmentation approach.

The company's business model is a B2B component/sensor supplier model, selling sensing solutions to OEMs rather than end users; pricing details and publicly disclosed pricing models are not available in the source data. No named OEM customers, distribution channels, or marketing channels are disclosed, and the company has no listed subsidiaries, no public awards, and no disclosed patent portfolio in the provided sources. Operations are reported as confined to North America (USA) with no global footprint claim.

The company has raised approximately $25.4 million across three disclosed funding events (a 2016 round of about $4.44 million, a 2018 round of about $19.49 million led by Bullpen Capital, and a 2021 round of about $1.46 million), and filed an SEC Form D in September 2021 for an exempt offering of approximately $23.35 million with about $19.49 million already sold. Leadership consists of founder and CEO Keith McMillen and director Steven Berger. Headcount is reported in the 11-50 range. The current bebopsensors.com domain does not appear to display company-related product content (it shows unrelated third-party material), which limits the ability to corroborate ongoing commercial activity from the company's own web presence.

Name

BeBop Sensors

Legal name

BeBop Sensors, Inc.

Website

https://bebopsensors.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Tactile Sensors for Robotics

NAICS

Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (3345), Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (334519), Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451)

SIC

Electronic Components & Accessories (3670), Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial Sensors (Pressure, Temperature, Flow, Level, Proximity, Vibration) (IMAGAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Industrial-Grade Sensors & Transducer Components (Discrete sensing elements, transducers, MEMS sensors) (IMAGAJAO), Sensors, MEMS & Imaging ICs (HDAHAAAG), Sensor Fusion, Interface ICs & Modules (AFE/Readout/Packaging/Calibration) (HDAHALAO)

Keywords

• Tactile sensors
• Flexible sensors
• Robotic sensing
• Pressure sensors
• Multi-modal sensing

Headquarters

HQ city

Berkeley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations

Core offering

BeBop Sensors develops tactile sensor solutions designed for OEMs to incorporate into robotics and wearable products. The offerings include flexible and multi-modal sensing technologies that enable robots and devices to detect touch and pressure, supporting applications in industrial robotics, healthcare robotics, and wearables.

Product overview

Unable to extract product overview from provided source data. The available sources do not contain specific information about BeBop Sensors' products, services, or portfolio. Sources include only a 2021 SEC Form D filing (securities offering of $23.35M, Berkeley, CA location) and generic market research about tactile sensors for robotics.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tactile sensor solutions for robotics Flexible and multi-modal tactile sensor technologies designed for OEMs to integrate into robotics products, enabling touch and pressure sensing capabilities in industrial and healthcare robotics applications.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Festo: Festo is a broad industrial-automation incumbent with pneumatic and mechatronic components, including force/tactile sensing modules used in robotic and factory-automation applications. It competes more as a portfolio supplier than a tactile-sensor specialist.
• Honeywell Sensing & Productivity Solutions: Honeywell's sensing division supplies a broad portfolio of pressure, force, and position sensors to industrial and medical OEMs. It is a broad incumbent rather than a tactile-sensor specialist, but defines the OEM-vendor landscape BeBop must sell into.

Regional players

• Tekscan / Novel (Novel Deutschland) — plantar pressure & biomechanics: Novel (novel.de) supplies plantar-pressure and in-shoe sensor systems for biomechanics and clinical research, predominantly in European healthcare and research markets. It is comparable to BeBop in flexible pressure-sensor technology but serves regional healthcare/biomechanics use cases rather than US industrial robotics.

Direct peers

• SynTouch (now part of Touchlab): SynTouch / Touchlab develops bioinspired tactile sensors for robotic manipulation, with sensors that mimic human fingertip sensitivity. It is a direct competitor in flexible, multi-modal tactile sensing for robotics OEMs.
• Tekscan: Tekscan is a direct peer — it manufactures high-resolution tactile and pressure-sensing films and systems used in product testing, medical devices, and increasingly robotics. It directly competes with BeBop's flexible tactile-sensor technology for OEM integration.
• Pressure Profile Systems (PPS): PPS designs and manufactures tactile pressure and force sensors, including capacitive and piezoresistive variants, with a strong focus on robotics, medical, and human-interface applications — directly comparable to BeBop's tactile-sensor offering.
• ATI Industrial Automation: ATI supplies force/torque sensors and robotic end-effector components widely used by industrial robotics OEMs. While focused on wrist-mounted F/T sensors rather than skin-like tactile sensors, it is the incumbent BeBop competes against for sensor-driven robotic dexterity budgets.

Emerging players

• Xela Robotics: Xela Robotics builds 3D magnetic tactile sensors (uSkin) for robot fingertips and skin, addressing the same flexible, multi-modal tactile-sensing use case BeBop targets but with a different (magnetic) sensing modality.
• Contactile: Contactile develops optical-based tactile sensor fingertips for robotic grippers, including multi-modal force and vibration sensing. It overlaps with BeBop's flexible, multi-modal tactile-sensor roadmap for robotic manipulation.
• Wootzano: Wootzano produces electronic skin (Wootzkin) for robots with embedded temperature, humidity, gas, and pressure sensing. It is comparable to BeBop in flexible multi-modal sensing, with a slightly broader environmental-sensing portfolio.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/BeBopSensors
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bebop-sensors

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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