PTLD: Sim-to-Real Tactile Transfer with Minimal Real Data
JitendraMalikCV · x · 2026-07-13
This post shares a new paper on tactile policy training: PTLD: Sim-to-Real Privileged Tactile Latent Distillation for Dexterous Manipulation.
The author notes that previous sim-to-real work often relied heavily on zero-shot transfer, limiting them to weaker sensors (e.g., proprioception only). PTLD's approach is that by allowing the collection of a small amount of real-world data, it's possible to deploy stronger sensor-rich motor policies, achieving significantly better manipulation performance.
The paper is a collaboration between researchers from CMU, UW, UC Berkeley, and Meta FAIR, and the post includes links to the paper, project page, and a video.
Related event: PTLD Enables Tactile Dexterous Manipulation Without Tactile Simulation(3 posts)→
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