6thSense — tactile capture hardware for dexterous robotics
Robots can see the world, but they still can't feel it. 6thSense builds the touch layer for robot learning: Skin, a wearable tactile sensor, and Eye2 Pro, an egocentric camera synced to touch.
Why touch
A robot can recognize a strawberry. But can it pick one without crushing it?
Recognition tells you what to pick. Pressure tells you how much to grip.
Force is the invisible variable vision can't capture.
We train force from touch, not guessing.
Robots that feel pressure master precision.
What the research says
Vision alone succeeds about 50% of the time. Touch raises it to over 80%. (Carnegie Mellon — Touch Dreaming, 2026)
Robot hands can be highly dexterous — based on touch sensing alone. (Columbia Engineering — Matei Ciocarlie)