3 papers
cs.RO2025
Tactile Beyond Pixels: Multisensory Touch Representations for Robot Manipulation
Carolina Higuera, Akash Sharma, Taosha Fan +8
We present Sparsh-X, the first multisensory touch representations across four tactile modalities: image, audio, motion, and pressure. Trained on ~1M contact-rich interactions colle…
cs.RO2025
Self-supervised perception for tactile skin covered dexterous hands
Akash Sharma, Carolina Higuera, Chaithanya Krishna Bodduluri +9
We present Sparsh-skin, a pre-trained encoder for magnetic skin sensors distributed across the fingertips, phalanges, and palm of a dexterous robot hand. Magnetic tactile skins off…
cs.RO2025
DexterityGen: Foundation Controller for Unprecedented Dexterity
Zhao-Heng Yin, Changhao Wang, Luis Pineda +11
Teaching robots dexterous manipulation skills, such as tool use, presents a significant challenge. Current approaches can be broadly categorized into two strategies: human teleoper…