Giving robots a nervous system.

Preload pairs everyday video with scalable, synchronized multimodal sensing, capturing how hard human hands hold, press, and let go.

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The problem

Video flattens the physical world

The physical world is a dense cloud of force, contact, and motion. Video captures only what a camera can see: a flat projection of it.

Better model architectures can't recover what was never measured. Each sensor we add brings the data closer to the real world.

Our solution

End to end, from sensors to automation

  1. Sense

    Build sensors that turn physical experience into measurable signals.

  2. Collect

    Capture human skill through synchronized video, touch, and force.

  3. Train

    Teach robots how to act from synchronized human demonstrations.

  4. Evaluate

    Test learned skills against precise task targets and ground truth.

  5. Deploy

    Put validated skills to work on the same real-world tasks.

Our hardware

Three signals, recorded in sync

  • Vision

    A head-mounted camera records each task from the worker's point of view.

  • Tactile sensing

    A sensor glove measures pressure across the fingers and palm.

  • Muscle activation

    An EMG band on the forearm reads the effort behind every grip.

Who we serve

For teams working with the physical world

Why Preload

Built by people who decode neural data

Our team has studied and worked at

  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Caltech
  • University of Waterloo
  • University of Toronto
  • University of Maryland
  • Georgia Tech
  • Tsinghua University
  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
  • Amazon
  • Meta
  • Neuralink
  • Paradromics
  • NeuroPace
  • Iota Biosciences
  • Sonera Magnetics
  • Epia Neuro
  • Neural data experts

    Decoding high-bandwidth neural signals at leading BCI companies.

  • The full stack, in-house

    Collection, evaluation, policy training, and real-hardware testing.

  • Built for real deployment

    We start from industrial tasks that have to work, not demos.

  • From labs to factories

    Industrial access to real tasks, and a close loop with model teams.

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Let’s turn human skill into robotic capability.