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Touchlab
National Robotarium (Heriot-Watt) startup making patented ultra-thin electronic skin giving robots force, pressure and directional (shear) feedback; customers include Ocado (produce-picking warehouse robots) and Sellafield Ltd (nuclear); teleoperated e-skin robot piloted 6 months in a Helsinki hospital stroke ward (2023); robot-fingertip mass production scaled 2024-2025, ~17 staff; ANA Avatar XPRIZE finalist. Re-adjudicated under 2026-07-13 component ruling; prior rejects were component-maker exclusion only.
HeadquartersEdinburgh, GB
Founded2017
Corporate funding$5M
Team11-50
Deployments0
Open roles0
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Company overview
Identity and operating footprint
Company typeComponent supplier
Market segmentCorporate
StageSeed
FoundersDr. Zaki Hussein (Founder & CEO)
Regions servedEurope
Countries deployedNot listed
Service footprintNot listed
Last reviewed2026-07-05
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Funding history
Publicly announced rounds
Seed
Octopus Ventures, Creator Fund, Techstart Ventures
Round sourceInvestors on recordOctopus VenturesCreator FundTechstart Ventures
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Source ledger
4 unique public sources
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Touchlab bags $4.8M seed funding from Octopus VenturesTech Funding News · retrieved 2026-07-05
02Startup Touchlab develops electronic skin for robotsBusinessCloud · retrieved 2026-07-05
03Two new robotic systems aim to keep battlefield medics and nuclear engineers out of harm's wayMachinery · retrieved 2026-07-05
04Robotics project to support safe decommissioningNuclear AMRC · retrieved 2026-07-05