arXiv Machine Learning
6d ago

SoTa: Soft Tactile Skins for Dexterous Manipulation

SoTa is a low‑cost, capacitive tactile skin that offers full‑hand coverage for both humans and robots, featuring a shared layout of 202 taxels across finger and palm regions. The multilayer design with fabric electrodes allows in‑house fabrication for under $10 in materials, and the sensor maintains over 97% of its response after 10,000 loading‑unloading cycles and 1,280 tight‑fist folds. Using SoTa, human‑robot co‑training improves in‑distribution success on three contact‑rich manipulation tasks, and adding human demonstrations more than doubles mean success across eight evaluation conditions, from 22.8% to 45.9%, including all out‑of‑distribution scenarios.

By Jingyun Yang, Baiyu Shi, Timothy Yu, Haitian Liu, Alberta Longhini, Weichen Wang, Rika Antonova, Zhenan Bao, Jeannette Bohg
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Object Reconstruction under Occlusion with Generative Priors and Contact-induced Constraints

The paper presents a method for reconstructing object geometry under occlusion by combining generative shape priors with contact-based constraints. Generative models provide plausible guesses for unseen parts, while contact information from videos or physical interactions supplies sparse boundary constraints. The authors integrate these cues through a contact-guided 3D generation framework, demonstrating improved reconstruction on synthetic and real-world datasets compared to baseline approaches.

By Minghan Zhu, Zhiyi Wang, Qihang Sun, Maani Ghaffari, Michael Posa