FTP-1 is the first foundation tactile policy pretrained on ~3000 hours of data from 26 sources across 21 sensors that improves performance on seen setups by 17.2% and transfers to unseen sensors with 31% success rate gain.
Mimictouch: Leveraging multi-modal human tactile demonstrations for contact-rich manipulation
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Tactile sensing is critical to fine-grained, contact-rich manipulation tasks, such as insertion and assembly. Prior research has shown the possibility of learning tactile-guided policy from teleoperated demonstration data. However, to provide the demonstration, human users often rely on visual feedback to control the robot. This creates a gap between the sensing modality used for controlling the robot (visual) and the modality of interest (tactile). To bridge this gap, we introduce "MimicTouch", a novel framework for learning policies directly from demonstrations provided by human users with their hands. The key innovations are i) a human tactile data collection system which collects multi-modal tactile dataset for learning human's tactile-guided control strategy, ii) an imitation learning-based framework for learning human's tactile-guided control strategy through such data, and iii) an online residual RL framework to bridge the embodiment gap between the human hand and the robot gripper. Through comprehensive experiments, we highlight the efficacy of utilizing human's tactile-guided control strategy to resolve contact-rich manipulation tasks. The project website is at https://sites.google.com/view/MimicTouch.
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MiTaS fuses multi-resolution tactile data from GelSight and Evetac sensors with vision using modality-specific stems and transformer fusion to condition flow-matching policies, reporting 80% average success on five contact-rich tasks versus 31-54% baselines.
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FTP-1: A Generalist Foundation Tactile Policy Across Tactile Sensors for Contact-Rich Manipulation
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WristMimic: Full-Body Humanoid Control with Wrist-Guided Manipulation
Wrist-guided whole-body RL retargets human–object interactions without finger pose supervision, matching supervised methods and generalizing across hand morphologies in simulation.
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Tac-DINO: Learning Vision-Tactile Features with Patch Alignment
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Multi-Resolution Tactile Imitation Learning for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
MiTaS fuses multi-resolution tactile data from GelSight and Evetac sensors with vision using modality-specific stems and transformer fusion to condition flow-matching policies, reporting 80% average success on five contact-rich tasks versus 31-54% baselines.
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Learning Tactile-Aware Quadrupedal Loco-Manipulation Policies
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