Tag: Tactile sensing

T-Rex: a manipulation model that reacts to touch

A team from Stanford, UC Berkeley and NVIDIA — with Li Fei-Fei among 34 authors — unveiled T-Rex, a vision-language-action model that adds high-frequency touch. It lifts success rates by over 30 points across 12 dexterous tasks.

Tacta Systems debuts a touch-sensing dexterous robot hand

Palo Alto startup Tacta Systems came out of stealth on July 28, 2026 with TactaBot — a 15-joint robotic hand with dense tactile sensing, a data-collection glove and an AI model. The target is precision manufacturing assembly, shipping in early 2027.

A tactile sensor that turns pressure into color — with no latency

A team from Queen Mary University of London and three Italian universities built a tactile sensor in which the material's color itself encodes contact force — at 100 µm resolution and with no computational latency.

Generative Bionics' Gene.01: a humanoid with full-body touch

Italian startup Generative Bionics, spun out of IIT, unveiled Gene.01 — a humanoid covered in full-body tactile sensors. It targets industry, with a Fincantieri shipyard as the first proving ground.

NVIDIA Isaac GR00T: open humanoid platform set for October 2026

NVIDIA and Sharpa unveiled a joint humanoid reference platform at GTC Taipei. The system integrates a Unitree H2 Plus chassis, Sharpa Wave tactile hands, and a Jetson AGX Thor T5000 module into a single research-ready environment. General availability is set for October 2026.

Eka Robotics Exits Stealth with VFA Model — Betting on Force, Not Imitation

Cambridge startup Eka Robotics unveiled the Vision-Force-Action (VFA) model, training robots in simulation using force sensing rather than human imitation. Founders include MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, co-creator of the SAC algorithm.

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