# Maxinsights raises $30M seed round and launches MaxGlove for robot force data

> Original title: Homes are becoming one of the richest places to collect robot training data, but its not as simple as just recording a video.

- Source: Rohan Paul
- Published: 2026-10-22T16:58:51.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/zhkx1z09y6amfzw9295bvo703
- Original: https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2113314150579675249

## Summary

Maxinsights, which captures real work in homes, restaurants and hotels for robot training, announced a $30M seed round led by PeakXV Partners. The company also launched MaxLoop, which provides same-day quality scores on clips, and MaxGlove, which records touch and force from people's hands. It says it aims for a million hours of force data by 2027, on top of more than 2M hours of footage captured so far.

## Why it matters

The post explains why touch and force data from human hands may complement video for robot training, a distinction worth weighing for anyone following robot data collection.

## Post

Homes are becoming one of the richest places to collect robot training data, but its not as simple as just recording a video.

Hand force data is becoming one of the most useful signals in robot manipulation.

MaxGlove, from @Maxinsights records touch and force from people’s hands while they work, the layer of a grasp a camera can’t capture.

Pressure decides most of a grasp, whether the glass slides out or cracks. The correction when something starts to slip begins in the fingertips, usually before a camera can pick it up.

A policy trained only on video learns the shape of a grasp and has to infer the force. Glove data supplies the force directly, from people handling the objects robots will be asked to handle.

Maxinsights says it’s aiming for a million hours of force data by 2027, on top of the 2M+ hours of footage captured so far.

[Video](https://badinfluence.news/api/img-proxy?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Famplify_video_thumb%2F2113312887842467840%2Fimg%2FNI-gQ9G-EPdMRS8v.jpg&mode=thumb&exp=1793923200&sig=60e8a335e7d89c3c)

## Quoted post @BrianYN

> Robots learn by watching people work. Most of what they watch is staged.
> 
> At @Maxinsights, we capture real work at natural speed in real homes, restaurants, and hotels. 2M+ hours so far.
> 
> Today we’re announcing a $30M seed round led by @PeakXVPartners, plus two new products:
> 
> MaxLoop: same-day quality scores on every clip
> MaxGlove: touch and force data a camera can't capture
> 
> Thank you to our investors, builders, operators and customers. More to come.

https://x.com/BrianYN/status/2113299419328291012