cs.ROMay 20, 2026

roto 2.0: The Robot Tactile Olympiad

Authors: Elle MillerJayaram ReddyAyush DeshmukhTrevor McInroeDavid AbelOisin Mac AodhaSethu Vijayakumar

Organizations: University of Edinburgh, UK · National University Singapore, Singapore

Abstract

Tactile-based reinforcement learning (RL) is currently hindered by fragmented research and a focus on over-saturated orientation tasks. We introduce v2 of the Robot Tactile Olympiad (\texttt{roto 2.0}), a GPU-parallelised benchmark designed to standardise tactile-based RL across four distinct robotic morphologies (16-DOF to 24-DOF). Unlike prior benchmarks, roto focuses on end-to-end "blind" manipulation, utilising only proprioception and tactile sensing without state information or distillation. We demonstrate a significant performance leap, with our blind agents achieving 13 Baoding ball rotations in 10 seconds, an order of magnitude faster than current state-of-the-art speeds. By open-sourcing our environments and robustly tuned baselines, we reduce the barrier to entry and enable researchers to prioritise fundamental algorithmic challenges over tedious RL tuning. Website: https://elle-miller.github.io/roto/

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