Awesome FlexiTac

FlexiTac: An Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Solution for Robotic Systems

Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li

3D-ViTac: Learning Fine-Grained Manipulation with Visuo-Tactile Sensing

Binghao Huang, Yixuan Wang, Xinyi Yang, Yiyue Luo, Yunzhu Li

VT-Refine: Learning Bimanual Assembly with Visuo-Tactile Feedback via Simulation Fine-Tuning

Binghao Huang, Jie Xu, Iretiayo Akinola, Wei Yang, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Rowland O'Flaherty, Dieter Fox, Xiaolong Wang, Arsalan Mousavian, Yu-Wei Chao, Yunzhu Li

Best Paper Award — IROS 2025 AHFHR Workshop

Touch in the Wild: Learning Fine-Grained Manipulation with a Portable Visuo-Tactile Gripper

Xinyue Zhu^*, Binghao Huang^*, Yunzhu Li

Best Demo Award — RSS 2025 Workshop on Robot Hardware-Aware Intelligence

Bringing Human Touch to Robots: The Future of Tactile Sensing

Yuval Zukerman, Tao Yu, Wenjie Lu — Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI)

Industrial-grade multimodal tactile sensors — 5× the resolution of a human fingertip, integrating pressure, vibration, and temperature.

Tactile Sensors: The Touch that will Transform Robotics

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) — Signals+

Multimodal fingertip sensing (pressure, temperature, audio, accelerometer) fused with AI for real-time slip prevention and dexterous humanoid manipulation.

LeFlexiTac: Giving Robots a Sense of Touch

Naian Tao, Yifan He^*, Wesley Maa^*, Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li

Multi-Modal Manipulation via Multi-Modal Policy Consensus

Haonan Chen, Jiaming Xu^*, Hongyu Chen^*, Kaiwen Hong, Binghao Huang, Chaoqi Liu, Jiayuan Mao, Yunzhu Li, Yilun Du⁺, Katherine Driggs-Campbell⁺

Best Paper Award — CVPR 2026 Workshop on Multi-Sensory Modeling for Embodied Intelligence

Media: Featured in Video Friday — IEEE Spectrum

Tactile-Reactive Gripper with an Active Palm for Dexterous Manipulation

Yuhao Zhou, Won Suk Lee, Yan Gu, Yu She

Object Pose Estimation through Dexterous Touch

Amir-Hossein Shahidzadeh^*, Jiyue Zhu^*, Kezhou Chen, Sha Yi, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos, Xiaolong Wang

Learning Force-Regulated Manipulation with a Low-Cost Tactile-Force-Controlled Gripper

Xuhui Kang^*, Tongxuan Tian^*, Sung-Wook Lee, Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li, Yen-Ling Kuo

TacVLA: Contact-Aware Tactile Fusion for Robust Vision-Language-Action Manipulation

Kaidi Zhang^*, Heng Zhang^*, Zhengtong Xu, Zhiyuan Zhang, MD Rakibul Islam Prince, Li Xiang, Xiaojing Han, Yuhao Zhou, Arash Ajoudani, Yu She

VTAP Gripper: Synergizing Fingertip Sensing and a Visuo-Tactile Active Palm for Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation

Yuhao Zhou, Sheeraz Athar^*, Zhixian Hu^*, Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li, Juan Wachs, Yu She

Learning Tactile-Aware Quadrupedal Loco-Manipulation Policies

Pokuang Zhou, Yuhao Zhou, Quan Luu, Seungho Han, Heng Zhang, Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li, Arash Ajoudani, Zhengtong Xu, Yu She

TAC-LOCO: Unified Whole-Body Control for Quadrupedal TACtile-Informed LOCO-Manipulation

Muqun Hu^*, Yuhao Zhou^*, Kabir Ray Malik, Chi Lin, Won Suk Lee, Yu She, Yan Gu

TacCoRL: Integrating Tactile Feedback into VLA via Simulation

Siyu Ma^*, Yuqi Liang^*, Chang Yu^*+, Yunuo Chen, Hao Su, Yixin Zhu, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang

WT-UMI: Tactile UMI for Force-Supervised Humanoid Manipulation

Jaehwi Jang^*, Zhaoyuan Gu^*, Alfred Cueva, Zimeng Chai, Junjie Sheng, Thong Nguyen, Himank Galundia, Yifan Wu, Huishu Xue, Isaac Legene, Ojas Mediratta, Davin Doan, Andrew Collins, Sarah Sadegh, KyoungMok Kim, Rishita Dhalbisoi, Zun Chen, Ye Zhao

HiPi: Reproducible High-Fidelity Piezoresistive Sensors for Robotic Manipulation

Changyi Lin, Raihan Haque, Hui-Ping Wang, Ding Zhao

ART-Glove: Articulated Tactile Glove for Contact-Grounded Dexterous Interaction Capture

Changyi Lin, Ding Zhao

Feel Robot Feels: Tactile Feedback Array Glove for Dexterous Manipulation

Feiyu Jia^*, Xiaojie Niu^*, Sizhe Yang^*, Qingwei Ben, Tao Huang, Feng Zhao^†, Jingbo Wang^†, Jiangmiao Pang^†

Deform360: A Massive Multi-view Visuotactile Dataset for Deformable World Models

Hongyu Li^*, Wanjia Fu^*, Xiaoyan Cong, Zekun Li, Binghao Huang, Hanxiao Jiang, Xintong He, Yiqing Liang, Rao Fu, Tao Lu, Srinath Sridhar, Kevin A. Smith, George Konidaris, Yunzhu Li

198 objects, 23.3M total frames, and 215.7 h of high-quality visuo-tactile data captured with FlexiTac sensors.

FELT: Generating Tactile Signals from Vision for Visuo-Tactile Manipulation

Zinan Li, Yiyang Ling, Yuming Gu, Binghao Huang, Chenhao Liang, Sharfin Islam, Hisham Bedri, John Chirikjian, Yunzhu Li, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Daniel Seita

TactX: Learning Shared Tactile Representations Across Diverse Sensors

Junsung Park^*, Sachin Bhadang^*, Carmelo Sferrazza, Sha Yi, Xiaolong Wang

A Visuo-Tactile Data Collection System with Haptic Feedback for Coarse-to-Fine Imitation Learning

Yeseung Kim^*, Nayoung Oh^*, Jun Park^*, Teetat Thamronglak^*, Daehyung Park

ViTaS: Visual Tactile Soft Fusion Contrastive Learning for Visuomotor Learning

Yufeng Tian^*, Shuiqi Cheng^*, Tianming Wei, Tianxing Zhou, Yuanhang Zhang, Zixian Liu, Qianwei Han, Zhecheng Yuan, Huazhe Xu

DexFLEX: Contact-Aware Foundation Controller for Command-Guided Dexterity

Weikang Wan, Zeyu Lai, Jianyu Hou, Yuchen Zhou, Jiawei Fu, Henrik I. Christensen^†, Hao Su^†

Learning the Signatures of the Human Grasp Using a Scalable Tactile Glove

Subramanian Sundaram, Petr Kellnhofer, Yunzhu Li, Jun-Yan Zhu, Antonio Torralba, Wojciech Matusik

ActionSense: A Multimodal Dataset and Recording Framework for Human Activities Using Wearable Sensors in a Kitchen Environment

Joseph DelPreto^*, Chao Liu^*, Yiyue Luo, Michael Foshey, Yunzhu Li, Antonio Torralba, Wojciech Matusik, Daniela Rus

Dynamic Modeling of Hand-Object Interactions via Tactile Sensing

Qiang Zhang^*, Yunzhu Li^*, Yiyue Luo, Wan Shou, Michael Foshey, Junchi Yan, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Wojciech Matusik, Antonio Torralba

Intelligent Carpet: Inferring 3D Human Pose from Tactile Signals

Yiyue Luo, Yunzhu Li, Michael Foshey, Wan Shou, Pratyusha Sharma, Tomas Palacios, Antonio Torralba, Wojciech Matusik