Jianxiang Xu

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Founder

2025Robotics Software Engineer· Proception Inc

Founder · since 2017

Company

Proception Inc

Role

Robotics Software Engineer

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

Palo Alto, California, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Proception Inc

Making humanoids dexterous enough to thread a needle

Experience

Career

Proception Inc
Robotics Software Engineer · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2025 – Present
2025
Proception Inc
Robotics Software Engineer · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2024 – 2025
2024
University of Waterloo
Graduate Student Researcher | Mobile Manipulator x Sensor Fusion (Active SLAM) · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · 2021 – 2024
2021
Tesla
Humanoid Robot Modeling Engineer | Tesla Bot / Optimus | Actuators & Achitecture · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2024
2024
Tesla
Embedded Software Engineer | Body Control & Sensing | Real-Time Ultrasonic Localization · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2020
2020
Tesla
Embedded Software Engineer | Body Control & Sensing · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2019
2019
University of Waterloo Robotics Design Team
Team Lead | Autonomous Racing Robot Competition · 2018 – 2019
2018
Trexo Robotics
Jack of all robots | Exoskeleton · 2018
2018
Interaptix Augmented Reality
Software Engineer | AR/VR & Computer Vision · Greater Toronto Area, Canada · 2018
2018
TobyX
Founder
Founding Engineer - Product Owner | Smart Hotel IoT Hardware & Firmware · 2017
2017
Baanto | ShadowSense
Embedded Software Engineer | Modular Touch Screen - Geometrical Pattern Recognition · Ontario, Canada · 2017
2017

UWaterloo Alumni, Ex-Tesla Engineer, Ex-Trexo [YC 19]