Bing Han, Yichuan Peng, Haoyu Dong, Yuanmeng Hu, Yongyi Jia, Fangjing Wang, Kecheng Zheng, Yiming Zhang (Robbyant) · Tactile Foundation Model

Learning Heterogeneous Tactile Representation for General Dexterous Manipulation

The paper introduces LingBot-Touch, a tactile foundation model that learns a unified representation across piezoresistive, magnetic and visuotactile sensors, and can be extended to new sensor types. Its tactile tokens are plug-and-play with policy models, including diffusion policy and vision-language-action models such as π0.5 and LingBot-VLA. The authors report gains in manipulation dexterity across simulation and real-robot deployments on multiple hardware platforms. The page does not state a licence or code release.