Summary
According to a post on X by @robbyant_brain, Ant Group's Robbyant has open-sourced LingBot-Touch, a tactile foundation model trained on nearly 5,000 hours of touch data. The model turns signals from magnetic, piezoresistive and visuotactile sensors into shared touch tokens that robot policies can use alongside vision. Robbyant reports testing it on 26 real-robot tasks with two dexterous hands, Sharpa Wave and XHand, and four action models. The post describes average success gains, but the figures are cut off in the available excerpt.
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What happened
LingBot-Touch turns signals from magnetic, piezoresistive and visuotactile sensors into shared touch tokens that robot policies can use alongside vision. Robbyant tested it on 26 real-robot tasks with two dexterous hands (Sharpa Wave and XHand) and four action models, reporting average success gains o...
Why it matters
Robotics teams working on dexterous manipulation can now examine whether touch signals improve their policies when combined with vision, since the model is open for others to use. Researchers comparing tactile sensors should note that the model is designed to take several sensor types. The next thing to watch is the reported success gains and whether independent teams reproduce them on their own hardware.
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