Does adding touch always improve robot performance?
No. The project reports that naively adding tactile inputs to an existing policy can reduce performance. The tactile signals need to be integrated with an appropriate control architecture and training data.
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T-Rex Gives Robot Hands a Faster Sense of TouchPanasonic's tactile robot policy separates slower visual planning from faster touch corrections. Its benchmark results are promising, with clear limits.
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