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Why Robots Needed Touch To Level Up
Published 3 days ago • 1 min read
Vision scales demos, touch scales reality. For years, robots have been learning to see. Cameras got better vision. Processing models got faster. Datasets got bigger. And still, real-world manipulation stayed pretty brittle. That is why Robotiq adding tactile sensor fingertips to its 2F-85 Adaptive Gripper matters more than it sounds. Vision tells a robot where something is. Touch tells what it’s like, and what’s going on with it. Slip, force distribution, and contact geometry … these are not...
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