Ant Group's Lingbo open-sources LingBot-Touch tactile foundation model
On November 10, Ant Group's Lingbo Technology open-sourced LingBot-Touch, a tactile foundation model pre-trained on nearly 5,000 hours of real tactile data. It covers three sensing principles—magnetic tactile, visuotactile, and piezoresistive—and outputs unified tactile tokens for use by different dexterous hands and action models.
Why it matters: The original text provides a unified representation across three types of tactile sensing and data from 26 real-machine tests, which can be used to assess the gains a tactile foundation model brings to existing action models.