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most citedDigitizing Touch with an Artificial Multimodal Fingertip

3 citations · 6 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.RO2026

HiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object-Interaction

Jiahao Ji, Ji Ma, Runhan Zhang +12

Humanoid intelligence requires learning over an extremely diverse space of whole-body motions and physically grounded interactions. However, existing embodied datasets remain funda…

cs.RO2026

OmniContact: Chaining Meta-Skills via Contact Flow for Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Runyi Yu, Xiaoyi Lin, Ji Ma +11

Learning long-horizon humanoid loco-manipulation poses a dual challenge: it requires not only the robust execution of meta-skills but also their seamless, closed-loop chaining equi…

cs.RO2026

ForceBand: Learning Forceful Manipulation with sEMG

Botao He, Zhi Wang, Linna Kuang +8

Human demonstrations are a scalable data source for learning robot manipulation policies. However, common sources of human demonstration data, such as motion-capture trajectories a…

cs.RO2026

PTLD: Sim-to-real Privileged Tactile Latent Distillation for Dexterous Manipulation

Rosy Chen, Mustafa Mukadam, Michael Kaess +4

Tactile dexterous manipulation is essential to automating complex household tasks, yet learning effective control policies remains a challenge. While recent work has relied on imit…

cs.RO2025

OSMO: Open-Source Tactile Glove for Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer

Jessica Yin, Haozhi Qi, Youngsun Wi +7

Human video demonstrations provide abundant training data for learning robot policies, but video alone cannot capture the rich contact signals critical for mastering manipulation.…

cs.RO2025

Dexterity from Smart Lenses: Multi-Fingered Robot Manipulation with In-the-Wild Human Demonstrations

Irmak Guzey, Haozhi Qi, Julen Urain +10

Learning multi-fingered robot policies from humans performing daily tasks in natural environments has long been a grand goal in the robotics community. Achieving this would mark si…

cs.RO2025

SPIDER: Scalable Physics-Informed Dexterous Retargeting

Chaoyi Pan, Changhao Wang, Haozhi Qi +8

Learning agile robotic policies requires large-scale demonstrations, but translating abundant human motion data to robots is bottlenecked by the embodiment gap and missing dynamic…

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★ 1 cited

Geometric Retargeting: A Principled, Ultrafast Neural Hand Retargeting Algorithm

Zhao-Heng Yin, Changhao Wang, Luis Pineda +4

We introduce Geometric Retargeting (GeoRT), an ultrafast, and principled neural hand retargeting algorithm for teleoperation, developed as part of our recent Dexterity Gen (DexGen)…

cs.RO2025

OTTER: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Text-Aware Visual Feature Extraction

Huang Huang, Fangchen Liu, Letian Fu +5

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models aim to predict robotic actions based on visual observations and language instructions. Existing approaches require fine-tuning pre-trained visio…

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…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

Digitizing Touch with an Artificial Multimodal Fingertip

Mike Lambeta, Tingfan Wu, Ali Sengul +20

Touch is a crucial sensing modality that provides rich information about object properties and interactions with the physical environment. Humans and robots both benefit from using…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Sparsh: Self-supervised touch representations for vision-based tactile sensing

Carolina Higuera, Akash Sharma, Chaithanya Krishna Bodduluri +8

In this work, we introduce general purpose touch representations for the increasingly accessible class of vision-based tactile sensors. Such sensors have led to many recent advance…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Using Fiber Optic Bundles to Miniaturize Vision-Based Tactile Sensors

Julia Di, Zdravko Dugonjic, Will Fu +11

Vision-based tactile sensors have recently become popular due to their combination of low cost, very high spatial resolution, and ease of integration using widely available miniatu…

cs.RO2023

Neural feels with neural fields: Visuo-tactile perception for in-hand manipulation

Sudharshan Suresh, Haozhi Qi, Tingfan Wu +9

To achieve human-level dexterity, robots must infer spatial awareness from multimodal sensing to reason over contact interactions. During in-hand manipulation of novel objects, suc…

cs.RO2023

What do we learn from a large-scale study of pre-trained visual representations in sim and real environments?

Sneha Silwal, Karmesh Yadav, Tingfan Wu +10

We present a large empirical investigation on the use of pre-trained visual representations (PVRs) for training downstream policies that execute real-world tasks. Our study involve…