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24 alternatives to Put this touch sensor on a robot and learn super precise tasks
We just released a very excited touch sensor that finally simplifies touch sensing for robotics. Our most exciting result: Learned visuotactile policies for precise tasks like inserting USBs and credit card swiping, that work out-of-the-box when you replace skins! To the best of our knowledge, this has never been shown before with any existing tactile sensor. Why is this important? For the first time, you could now collect data and train models on one sensor and expect them to generalize to new copies of the sensor -- opening the door to the kind of large foundation models that have…
This touch sensor enables robots to learn precise manipulation tasks like USB insertion and card swiping through visuotactile policies. Designed for roboticists and robotics developers, it stands out because trained… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Put this touch sensor on a robot and learn super precise tasks launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Here's a "behind-the-scenes" look at my development of a cool sensor during my PhD (electrical engineering). This sensor is only about 1/3 of my total research for my degree and took about a year. I've been on HN for a while now and I've seen my fair share of posts about the woes of pursuing a PhD. Now that I'm done with mine I wanna share some anecdotal evidence that doing a PhD can actually be enjoyable (not necessarily easy) and also be doable in 3 years. When I started I knew I didn't want to work on something that would never leave the lab or languish in a dissertation PDF no one…
2024 · paulbupejr.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source digital stylus using camera tracking and inertial measurements - Jcparkyn/dpoint
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, excited to share our latest work, OK-Robot, which is an open and modular framework to perform navigation and manipulation with a robot assistant in practically any homes without having to teach the robot anything new! You can simply unbox the target robot, install OK-Robot, give it a "scan" (think a 60 second iPhone video), and start asking the robot to move arbitrary things from A to B. We already tested it out in 10 home environments in New York city, and one environment each in Pittsburgh and Fremont. We based everything off of the current best machine learning models, and so…
2024 · ok-robot.github.io · its alternatives →
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MUI-Robotics▲68Artificial sensing systems for robots
May 2026 · mui-robotics.com · its alternatives →
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It's Friday, so I want to share one of the most fun projects I've ever worked on. A few years ago, I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots. We wrote many thousands and thousands of addresses on our direct mail, and wrote personal messages for high value prospects.
2021 · twitter.com · its alternatives →
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We wanted to do something very challenging to prove to ourselves that we can do anything we put our mind to. The reasoning for why we chose to build a toy TPU specifically is fairly simple: - Building a chip for ML workloads seemed cool - There was no well-documented open source repo for an ML accelerator that performed both inference and training None of us have real professional experience in hardware design, which, in a way, made the TPU even more appealing since we weren't able to estimate exactly how difficult it would be. As we worked on the initial stages of this project, we…
2025 · tinytpu.com · its alternatives →
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gesture.ai▲116Easy to use gesture recognition technology and SDK
2016 · gesture.ai · its alternatives →
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MicroBot Push▲140The wireless robotic finger that makes dumb products smart
2015 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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We just released a touch sensor that you can make at home with just a 3D printer, some magnets and hall effect sensors! Would love to hear the community's questions, thoughts and comments.
2025 · e-flesh.com · its alternatives →
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Annotate any tactile sensor in 3 lines of Python.
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Precomposed touch-device gestures for use in product demos.
2014 · areuswade.com · its alternatives →
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I have been working on making WebRTC + Embedded Devices easier for a few years. This is a hackathon project that pulled some of that together. I hope others build on it/it inspires them to play with hardware. I worked on it with two other people and I had a lot of fun with some of the ideas that came out of it. * Extendable/hackable - I tried to keep the code as simple as possible so others can fork/modify easily. * Communicate with light. With function calling it changes the light bulb, so it can match your mood or feelings. * Populate info from clients you control. I wanted…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Touch X ▲64Vibration and electrostimulation at your fingertips
2015 · jimmyjane.com · its alternatives →
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A modern JavaScript touch gesture library. Allows developers to configure pre-existing gestures and even create their own using ZingTouch
2016 · zingchart.github.io · its alternatives →
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2018 · remotion.cs.brown.edu · its alternatives →
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Point-of-view camera glasses for law enforencement
2014 · taser.com · its alternatives →
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