OpenTac Debuts as an Open Ecosystem for Custom Robot Tactile Skins Sensing Normal and Shear Forces
mangahomanga · x · 2026-10-22
Researchers announced OpenTac, an open ecosystem for building custom tactile skins that let robots of any shape sense both normal and shear forces, with an elegant all-in-one sensor design.
The project is open-sourced on GitHub, and the team says it's excited to see what the robotics community builds with it—a notable infrastructure piece for embodied AI and manipulation research.
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