ManiFeel is a benchmark for contact-rich manipulation tasks. Force-... and tactile-based tasks with occlusions and partially-observable state are going to be crucial for true general purpose robotics. Website:show more

Introducing HiLMa-Res: a hierarchical RL framework for quadrupeds to... tackle loco-manipulation tasks with sustained mobility! Designed for general learning tasks (vision-based, state-based, real-world data, etc), the robot now can step over stones🐾/navigate boxes📦/dribble⚽.show more

Robotics just hit a dexterity milestone 🤯! Sharpa Robotics... demonstrated autonomous dual-hand apple peeling using its new MoDE-VLA system. Using human-like dexterous hands with tactile sensing, the robot can feel contact and adjust its grip while rotating and peeling the apple. While the system achieved 30% success, the 73% peel completion rate shows robots are starting to master the fine, contact-rich manipulation needed for real world tasks.show more

Watch as Sharpa North assembles a computer autonomously! From... precise positioning to screwing and wire clipping, North executes complex, contact-rich tasks powered by tactile feedback. Dexterous hands + tactile AI are what make real-world task execution possible. This is the shift from simple automation to real-world robotics. #SharpaRoboticsshow more

Can we bring human-like Touch to robots🤖? Introducing our... CoRL work on 3D-ViTac. Humans rely on both vision 👁️ and touch 🫳 for complex tasks. With combined visual-tactile sensing, robots can now tackle challenging tasks, like precise in-hand reorientation, fragile objects grasping. Website: #Robotics #CoRL2024 #Touch #tactile #AI #MLshow more

ViTacFormer is a unified visuo-tactile framework for dexterous robot... manipulation. It fuses high-res visual+tactile data using cross-attention and predicts future tactile signals via an autoregressive head, enabling multi-fingered hands to perform precise, long-horizon tasks.show more

Agility Robotics is focusing on warehouse logistics. They'll be... competing with wheeled bimanual robots that are highly efficient in pick-and-place tasks. One example is Reflex Robotics, a NY-based startup that recently partnered with GXO to deploy robots in warehouses.show more

“Dexterous capability is directly proportional to the size of... the addressable market for general-purpose humanoid robots,” says James Wells, interim CEO and CCO. Sanctuary AI announces its latest technical milestone using hydraulic actuation, opening up a wide range of industrial and high value work tasks that require fine manipulation. #AI #Roboticsshow more

2026 is the year of robots: Atlas's hands mimic... human dexterity with adaptable grips for various tasks. Tactile sensors enable fine-grain manipulation. Atlas is a step toward the future.show more

The Clone hand is a compact, biomimetic robotic hand... designed to mimic human anatomy and perform a diverse array of manipulation tasks. Credit: Clone Roboticsshow more

We just released TAVI -- a robotics framework that... combines touch and vision to solve challenging dexterous tasks in under 1 hour. The key? Use human demonstrations to initialize a policy, followed by tactile-based online learning with vision-based rewards. Details in🧵(1/7)show more

Sim2Real RL for Vision-Based Dexterous Manipulation on Humanoids TLDR... - we train a humanoid robot with two multifingered hands to perform a range of dexterous manipulation tasks robust generalization and high performance without human demonstration :Dshow more

This dexterous robotic hand can see, feel, and solve... a Rubik’s cube BrainCo's Revo 3 dexterous robotic hand, a Chinese-developed system with integrated vision, full-palm tactile sensors, and high-precision actuators for complex manipulation tasksshow more

Today at Meta FAIR we’re announcing three new cutting-edge... developments in robotics and touch perception — and releasing a collection of artifacts to empower the community to build on this work. Details on all of this new work ➡️ 1️⃣ Meta Sparsh is the first general-purpose encoder for vision-based tactile sensing that works across many tactile sensors and many tasks. Trained on 460K+ tactile images using self-supervised learning. 2️⃣ Meta Digit 360 is a breakthrough artificial fingertip-based tactile sensor, equipped with 18+ sensing features to deliver detailed touch data with human-level precision and touch-sensing capabilities. 3️⃣ Meta Digit Plexus is a standardized platform for robotic sensor connections and interactions. It provides a hardware-software solution to integrate tactile sensors on a single robot hand and enables seamless data collection, control and analysis over a single cable. The potential impact of expanding capabilities and components like these for the open source community ranges from medical research to supply chain, manufacturing and much more. We’re excited to continue this work with the broader community.show more

In house tactile sensor prototype. Detects taps, motion, and... multiple contact with force magnitudes. Built to be cheap, robust, and replaceable. Not in our demos yet, still WIP. We pair simple tactile sensing with torque transparent joints to recover rich contact without expensive sensors.show more

Touch: A Game-Changer in Dexterity for Robots You can’t... be responsive to the world if you can’t feel it. That’s true for people—and it's just as true for robots. We’re zeroed in on a practical, yet innovative, approach to creating general purpose robots designed to perform physical work. And that means hands, powered not just by vision, but by touch. Vision alone falls short. There are many instances where our vision is obstructed while performing work tasks–like grabbing items out of a bin–you lose line of sight. You need tactile intelligence—texture, pressure, contact—with real-time feedback to move faster, smarter, and with confidence. Watch a full explainer video on Sanctuary AI’s latest touch sensors on our blog: #Robotics #AI #HumanoidRobots #Dexterity #TactileSensing #SanctuaryAIshow more

Daksha is learning. Powered by Viveka Decision Core and... an indigenous VLA architecture, Daksha observes, understands, and executes real-world tasks while improving with every interaction. Building the future of embodied AI and general-purpose humanoid robots I hub roboticsshow more

Researchers from RAI Institute present Diffuse-CLoC, a new control... policy that fuses kinematic motion diffusion models with physics-based control to produce motions that are both physically realistic and precisely controllable. This breakthrough moves us closer to developing generalist policies that enable humanoid robots to perform diverse tasks, including dynamic locomotion and contact-rich manipulation, in a natural-looking and robust way. Learn more atshow more

After two years in stealth mode, we're thrilled to... unveil Mentee Robotics and our humanoid robot, Mentee Robotics! With AI integration at every layer, from Sim2Real machine learning to NeRF-based algorithms and LLMs, we've achieved a complete end-to-end cycle for tasks. This is just the beginning and we can’t wait to share moreshow more