China's 5,000-hour dataset gives robots a shared sense of touch
AI-generated summary Ant Group embodied AI company Robbyant has open-sourced LingBot-Touch, a tactile foundation model designed to give robots advanced touch perception using a dataset of nearly 5,000 hours of real-world tactile data. Robbyant says the model supports magnetic tactile, visual tactile, and piezoresistive sensing, which could improve fine manipulation tasks such as turning pages, unscrewing bottle caps, and identifying Mahjong tiles.