Tactile Sensing Emerges as Robotics Frontier with Origami Challenge
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-07-31
Chris Paxton highlights that touch is the new frontier for robotics, and achieving human-level dexterity requires tackling difficult challenge problems. For instance, folding an origami paper plane is hard even for humans, but a visuotactile dataset from Sharpa demonstrates robots performing this exact task.
The core questions moving forward are whether we can train tactile-aware robot foundation models and achieve human-level dexterity on such demanding fine-motor tasks.
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