Tactile Sensing
Touch and force feedback — tactile skins, force-torque sensing, and why contact-rich tasks still defeat vision-only systems.
Coverage (6 articles)
- Boston Dynamics Atlas GR3 Hand: 13-DOF Specs for Tool Use — Boston Dynamics unveiled the GR3 hand for its electric Atlas humanoid on October 1, 2026. The four-fingered design delivers 13 degrees of freedom with direct ac
- 1X NEO Hands: 25-DoF Tendon Upgrade Targets Home Dexterity — 1X Technologies unveiled 25-DoF tendon-driven hands for its NEO humanoid on July 9, 2026. The design adds force-controlled joints and tactile sensing to support
- Gene.01 Humanoid: Generative Bionics Smart Skin Tactile Edge — Italian firm Generative Bionics launched the Gene.01 humanoid platform on July 20, 2026, featuring full-body multimodal tactile sensing for safer human collabor
- SimTac & DexSkin: Biomorphic Tactile Arrays and Hybrid MPC for Sim-to-Real — November 2025 arXiv paper SimTac (Zhang et al., King’s College London/BIT) introduces a physics-based MPM simulator for vision-based biomorphic tactile sensors
- Proception.AI ProHand 1.0: Ex-Tesla Optimus Team Ships Dexterous Hands After… — Proception.AI raises $11M seed led by First Round Capital and ships ProHand 1.0 tendon-driven robotic hand plus ProGlove data platform after settling Tesla trad
- MIT PolyTouch: Multi-Modal Tactile Arrays Drive 2025 Diffusion Policies — arXiv:2504.19341 details MIT CSAIL's PolyTouch finger integrating camera-based tactile, acoustic, and peripheral vision sensing for robust contact-rich manipula