LingBot-Touch open-sourced: giving robots a sense of touch missing from the internet
socialwithaayan · x · 2026-11-14
The quoted post notes AI learned to read, see and talk from the internet, but robots also need touch—where a finger presses, how hard, whether the object is slipping—almost none of which exists online. Robyant open-sourced LingBot-Touch to give robots a sense of touch. The poster jokes about struggling with a walking 3D character while this deals with real hands.
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