no code implementations • 12 May 2024 • Max Yang, Chenghua Lu, Alex Church, Yijiong Lin, Chris Ford, Haoran Li, Efi Psomopoulou, David A. W. Barton, Nathan F. Lepora
In the real world, we demonstrate successful sim-to-real transfer of the dense tactile policy, generalizing to a diverse range of objects for various rotation axes and hand directions and outperforming other forms of low-dimensional touch.
no code implementations • 5 Feb 2021 • Nathan F. Lepora, Andrew Stinchcombe, Chris Ford, Alfred Brown, John Lloyd, Manuel G. Catalano, Matteo Bianchi, Benjamin Ward-Cherrier
In this work, we report on the integrated sensorimotor control of the Pisa/IIT SoftHand, an anthropomorphic soft robot hand designed around the principle of adaptive synergies, with the BRL tactile fingertip (TacTip), a soft biomimetic optical tactile sensor based on the human sense of touch.
Robotics
