Ep#112: SlipSense and Touch2Trace

Podcast: RoboPapers · Chris Paxton and Michael Cho

Opublikowano: 2026-10-22

Touch is crucial for humans when they want to perform precise tasks to a high degree of reliability, and yet robots almost universally use vision — they’re often completely blind to this whole modality. Two works from Tong Jian, Tao Yu, Saleh Nabi, and Matteo Grimaldi show us how important this sense is. In SlipSense, they look at how to detect objects slipping in grippers using a compact multimodal tactile sensor, which generalizes across unseen objects and to different robots. They then talk about how tactile sensing can be used to enable high real-world performance with a challenging cable-tracing task...