Give robots a sense of touch

Embodied Robotics

Soft, large-area tactile skin and teleoperation gloves that close the loop between perception and dexterous manipulation.

Embodied Robotics

Challenges

Vision alone misses contact
Occlusion and transparent or deformable objects make grasping unreliable without touch.
Rigid sensors do not fit
Curved fingers, palms and limbs need conformable sensing that survives repeated bending.
Not enough human data
Training dexterous policies requires synchronized hand pose and contact data at scale.

Conformable e-skin
Woven arrays wrap fingers, palms and arms without rigid modules.
Contact, slip and force maps
Real-time pressure distribution feeds grasp control and safety.
Data-collection gloves
Capture human tactile demonstrations for imitation learning.

Placeholder text. Describe how tactile feedback improves grasp success, safety and learning efficiency for humanoids and manipulators.

Placeholder case. Fabric e-skin on fingertips and palm improved grasp success on fragile and transparent objects.