OpenTac: JHU/MIT open-source flex-PCB tactile skins that sensorize any robot surface
_krishna_murthy · x · 2026-11-11
JHU and MIT researchers launched OpenTac at CoRL 2026: an open ecosystem for customizable, scalable, transferable 3D tactile sensing. OpenTac-CAD turns a text description, 2D outline or 3D model into fabrication-ready flex-PCB Gerbers plus a 3D-printed shear-bump case, sensing normal and shear force on any robot surface (demoed on Unitree G1/Go2, LEAP Hand, and more). Includes OpenTac-Sim, cross-sensor transfer, high-frame-rate acquisition, and tactile policy learning tools; paper on arXiv (2610.31661), with live demos and free samples at the conference.
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