Why Robots Needed Touch To Level Up


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...