Anya Zorin retweeted
Touch has become a key ingredient for dexterous robot manipulation, but which tactile sensor should you actually use?
We're excited to introduce TacO, a benchmark for evaluating tactile sensors across real-world manipulation tasks.
🌮 TacO Benchmark provides:
Cross-modality comparison of different sensors (vision-, magnetic-, acoustic-, and resistive-based tactile sensing)
Standardized imitation learning framework with all kinds of tactile sensors
Open-source code, data, and hardware
Our experiments show that there is no universally best tactile sensor😌(even the expensive ones). The right choice depends on the tasks. We hope TacO helps the community build and evaluate the next generation of tactile sensors and how to use them to improve vision-based robot policies.
Anya Zorin retweeted
Pleased to announce our work - Cross Embodied Co-Design for Dexterous Hands - was accepted for ICLR 2026!
Our work fully generates novel robot hands and complementary control policies, zero-shot sim-to-real.
See you in Rio! #ICLR2026
Anya Zorin retweeted
Learning to design dexterous hand hardware. How many fingers, how long each finger, and where to place the fingers, are all learned.
So fun working with @Kehlani_Fay! When designing robots we rely on intuition, past experience, and bio inspiration. But what if we automate design and optimize it for a task?
Turns out robot hands don't always look like human hands! Check it out at: an-axolotl.github.io/co-desi…
Anya Zorin retweeted
What makes robot hands dexterous? 🤖🖐️
We generate robot hands + control, sim-to-real, in under 24 hours.
Paper: Cross-Embodied Co-Design for Dexterous Hands
🔥 Rapid evaluation w/ cross-embodied policies
🦾 Open-source modular hand platform
💡 Automated full-hand generation
Anya Zorin retweeted
Meet ACE-F — a novel, foldable teleoperation platform for collecting high-quality robot demonstration data across robot embodiments.
Using a specialized soft-controller pipeline, we interpret end-effector positional deviations as virtual force signals to provide the user with force feedback, without requiring expensive sensors! ACE-F simplifies control for a diverse array of robot platforms, making complex tasks that require dexterous manipulation highly intuitive.
Check out the project website here!
acefoldable.github.io/
Anya Zorin retweeted
Dexterous manipulation by directly observing humans - a dream in AI for decades - is hard due to visual and embodiment gaps.
With simple yet powerful hardware - Aria 2 glasses 👓 - and our new work AINA 🪞, we are now one significant step closer to achieving this dream.
Great work from @WowRobo and @zhazhali01!!
Not everyone wants to build a hand from scratch and source all the parts, so now you can get a pre-assembled version or a parts kit.
When @anyazorin and @irmakkguzey open-sourced the RUKA Hand (a low-cost robotic hand) earlier this year, people kept asking us how to get one.
Open hardware isn’t as easy to share as code.
So we’re releasing an off-the-shelf RUKA, in collaboration with @WowRobo and @zhazhali01.
Anya Zorin retweeted
Making touch sensors has never been easier!
Excited to present eFlesh, a 3D printable tactile sensor that aims to democratize robotic touch.
All you need to make your own eFlesh is a 3D printer, some magnets and a magnetometer.
See thread 👇and visit e-flesh.com
Anya Zorin retweeted
Tactile sensing is gaining traction, but slowly. Why? Because integration remains difficult. But what if adding touch sensors to your robot was as easy as hitting “print”?
Introducing eFlesh: a 3D-printable, customizable tactile sensor.
Shape it. Size it. Print it. 🧶👇
Anya Zorin retweeted
Teaching robots to learn only from RGB human videos is hard!
In Feel The Force (FTF), we teach robots to mimic the tactile feedback humans experience when handling objects. This allows for delicate, touch-sensitive tasks—like picking up a raw egg without breaking it. 🧵👇
Anya Zorin retweeted
RUKA is warming up for our EXPO demo today @ICRA2025 with the help of our first-time teleoperators, @venkyp2000 and @LIUPEIQI2 🫰
Come try teleoperating RUKA yourself from 1–5 PM, at exhibit hall! 🧤
For more info before coming -> ruka-hand.github.io :)
#ICRA2025 @anyazorin
Super excited to present our open-source robot hand RUKA! I had a lot of fun working on this with @irmakkguzey and all our amazing collaborators: @BillyYYan, @AadhithyaIyer, Lisa Kondrich, @NXBhattasali, and @LerrelPinto.
Check out our website at ruka-hand.github.io
