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Ant Group just open-sourced LingBot-Touch, a tactile foundation model for robots.
Cross-sensor transfer, even to sensors unseen during pretraining.
Nearly 5k hours of real-world tactile data.
Tested on 26 tasks, 2 robotic hands, and 4 action policies.
Average success rate: +14 to 26 percentage points over no touch.
Bottle-cap twisting:
56.25% with no touch.
62.5% with raw tactile input.
90% with LingBot-Touch features.
Two sizes: Tiny & Small
Apache 2.0. Weights now available.