Georg Martius Profile picture
Researcher, interested in autonomous machine learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, 3d printing and more
Feb 23, 2022 8 tweets 6 min read
#Robots need a better sense of touch to become dexterous.
We work on fixing this with our new sensor: “Insight” -- it uses a tiny camera and deep learning to enable high-fidelity sensing all-around with normal and shear forces.
Out today: nature.com/articles/s4225…
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I am super proud of the rest of the team @huanbo_sun and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker.

We set out to create a high-fidelity 3D tactile sensor that is robust, cheap, and easy to make.

Here is a 4-min video explaining how it works:


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