Awesome Flexible Tactile Arrays

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

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.

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

The MOTIF Hand: A Robotic Hand for Multimodal Observations with Thermal, Inertial, and Force Sensors

Hanyang Zhou, Haozhe Lou, Wenhao Liu, Enyu Zhao, Yue Wang, Daniel Seita

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

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

LocoTouch: Learning Dynamic Quadrupedal Transport with Tactile Sensing

Changyi Lin, Yuxin Ray Song, Boda Huo, Mingyang Yu, Yikai Wang, Shiqi Liu, Yuxiang Yang, Wenhao Yu, Tingnan Zhang, Jie Tan, Yiyue Luo, Ding Zhao

DexSkin: High-Coverage Conformable Robotic Skin for Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation

Suzannah Wistreich^*, Baiyu Shi^*, Stephen Tian^*, Samuel Clarke, Michael Nath, Chengyi Xu, Zhenan Bao, Jiajun Wu

ArrayBot: Reinforcement Learning for Generalizable Distributed Manipulation through Touch

Zhengrong Xue^*, Han Zhang^*, Jingwen Cheng, Zhengmao He, Yuanchen Ju, Changyi Lin, Gu Zhang, Huazhe Xu

Robot Synesthesia: In-Hand Manipulation with Visuotactile Sensing

Ying Yuan^*, Haichuan Che^*, Yuzhe Qin^*, Binghao Huang, Zhao-Heng Yin, Kang-Won Lee, Yi Wu, Soo-Chul Lim, Xiaolong Wang

Rotating without Seeing: Towards In-hand Dexterity through Touch

Zhao-Heng Yin^*, Binghao Huang^*, Yuzhe Qin, Qifeng Chen, Xiaolong Wang

Learning Human-environment Interactions using Conformal Tactile Textiles

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

Intelligent Textiles Are Looking Bright

Yunzhu Li, Yiyue Luo

Adaptive Tactile Interaction Transfer via Digitally Embroidered Smart Gloves

Yiyue Luo, Chao Liu, Young Joong Lee, Joseph DelPreto, Kui Wu, Michael Foshey, Daniela Rus, Tomás Palacios, Yunzhu Li, Antonio Torralba, Wojciech Matusik

Fits Like a Flex-Glove: Automatic Design of Personalized FPCB-Based Tactile Sensing Gloves

Devin Murphy, Yichen Li, Crystal Owens, Layla Stanton, Young Joong Lee, Paul Pu Liang, Yiyue Luo, Antonio Torralba, Wojciech Matusik

OPENTOUCH: Bringing Full-Hand Touch to Real-World Interaction

Yuxin Ray Song^*, Jinzhou Li^*, Rao Fu^*, Devin Murphy, Kaichen Zhou, Rishi Shiv, Yaqi Li, Haoyu Xiong, Crystal E. Owens, Yilun Du, Yiyue Luo, Xianyi Cheng, Antonio Torralba, Wojciech Matusik, Paul Pu Liang

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