FOMO-Dex uses force-aware Sharpa glove to make screwdriving teleoperable, questioning sim-to-real necessity
HaozhiQ · x · 2026-10-20
HaozhiQ and team, working with Sharpa Robotics, present FOMO-Dex. The author long used screwdriving as the canonical example of why finger-coordination tasks are too hard to teleoperate and why simulation is needed — this project flips that assumption, exploring whether carefully designed low-level control, especially compliance, makes such tasks directly teleoperable.
Sharpa's force-aware glove serves as the human teleoperation interface for contact-rich dexterous manipulation, aiming to push from better demonstrations toward stronger autonomous policies.
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