Jim Fan open-sources T-Rex: giving robots a first-class sense of touch
DrJimFan · x · 2026-08-22
NVIDIA's Jim Fan shared his team's newly open-sourced methodology "T-Rex", arguing touch is the most criminally under-explored modality in robotics — cameras can't see a magnetic piece snapping into place or a USB negotiating into its port, like doing sleight of hand in oven mitts.
T-Rex treats tactile as a first-class citizen: a mixture-of-transformers runs two clocks asynchronously, where a slow visuomotor expert plans motion and a fast tactile expert refines it with high-frequency real-time corrections.
Related event: NVIDIA and UC Berkeley Open-Source T-Rex Tactile Robot Learning(2 posts)→
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