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  1. PalmSpace: Towards a Versatile On-Palm Interaction Space through Unified Touch Modeling

    Oct 7, 2026Chentao Li, Mingze Gao, Runze Sun +3Wearable SensingTactile Sensing

    Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China · Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, China

  2. Hall Effect-Based Tactile Force Detection Sensor for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

    Oct 7, 2026Charles DeLorey, Michael Brockdorff, Adam Metcalf +3Tactile SensingRobotic Tactile Sensing

    STORM Lab, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

  3. Tactile Reconstruction of Contact Task Frames and Forces for Hybrid Force/Motion Control

    Oct 7, 2026Antonio Rapuano, Simone Orelli, Barbara Bazzana +2Force-Controlled Robotic ManipulationTactile Sensing

    Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy. · Robotics and Mechatronics Department, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands.

  4. What the Sleeve Feels: Explainable Machine Learning for Textile Pressure-Based Postural Screening

    Oct 7, 2026Limon Bin Hossain, Md Sadib Rahman AnantaWearable SensingDomain Generalization

    Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh

  5. MagCilia: A Compact Magnetociliary Tactile Sensor with 3D Force Sensing for Robotic Contact Perception and Grasping Feedback

    Oct 7, 2026Yu Feng, Hao Wu, Haotian Guo +7Tactile SensingTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore · Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA · Mechanical Engineering Department, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, and CAS-CityU Joint Laboratory for Robotic Research, City University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China

  6. PhysTacGen: Physics-Aware Visual-Tactile Sensor Image Generation

    Oct 6, 2026Guo Tang, Yongtao WangPhysics-Informed Generative ModelingTactile Sensing

    Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University · VGI Labs Co., Ltd.

  7. TacGELLO: Tactile Contact Feedback for a 3D-Printed Teleoperation Leader

    Oct 4, 2026Younsoo Kim, Sangmin Song, Sarath Kodagoda +2Tactile SensingRobot Teleoperation

    University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia · Western Sydney University, NSW, Australia

  8. Nudge Before You Push: Physics-Aware Navigation via Tactile Probing

    Oct 4, 2026Xianyao Li, Fang Xu, Ruitong Tian +4Robot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

    Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University

  9. RATE: Risk-Aware Tactile Encoding for Contact-rich Robotic Manipulation

    Oct 2, 2026Yuyao Jiang, Haichao Liu, Jiarui Zheng +3Robotic Tactile SensingTactile Sensing

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Daimon Robotics, Shenzhen, China

  10. SoTa: Soft Tactile Skins for Dexterous Manipulation

    Oct 1, 2026Jingyun Yang, Baiyu Shi, Timothy Yu +6Tactile SensingTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    Stanford University · Tsinghua University · University of Cambridge

  11. Tactile Perception through Fluid-Solid Interaction

    Sep 29, 2026Arman Goshtasbi, Minke Berghuis, Aida Parvaresh +3Tactile SensingRobotic Tactile Sensing

    SDU Soft Robotics, Biorobotics Section, The Maersk McKinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5230, Denmark · Department of Mechanics of Solids, Surfaces, and System, University of Twente, Enschede 7522 NB, The Netherlands · Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland

  12. A robust single-sensing-element tactile sensor for concurrent pressure and tackiness detection with real-time signal decoupling capability

    Sep 29, 2026Ying Yang, Mingwei Gu, Jia-Sen Xie +8Tactile SensingRobotic Tactile Sensing

    MOE Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, GBRCE for Functional Molecular Engineering, LIFM, IGCME, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China · Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Dresden 01328, Germany

  13. Uni-VLaT: Whole-Body Tactile Adaptation of VLA Policies for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Sep 28, 2026Zihao Wang, Shutong Liu, Siqi Zheng +5Humanoid Loco-ManipulationTactile Sensing

    Tsinghua University · Beihang University · Communication University of China +1

  14. TacGooseBumps (TacGB): Retrofitting Normal-Only Tactile Sensors with Shear Encoding for Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation

    Sep 27, 2026Wenjie Li, Binyu Yang, Yuxin Chen +2Tactile SensingContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    University of California, Berkeley · Saratoga High School

  15. GlowTact: Simple and Compact Vision-Based Tactile Sensing with High Sensitivity and Spatial Resolution

    Sep 26, 2026Yuxiang Ma, Megha Tippur, Pengfei Ye +4Vision-Based Tactile SensingTactile Sensing

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA · Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

  16. Can a Robot Read Braille? - Learning to Adapt Contact via Imitation Learning for Tactile Braille Recognition

    Sep 25, 2026Xi Chen, Yunlong Shan, Sihan Chen +7Assistive RoboticsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    College of Mechatronics and Control Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · School of Advanced Engineering, Great Bay University, Dongguan, Guangdong, China · Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China +4

  17. Tactile Sensing Array for Multi-Phalanx Sensing in Humanoid Hands

    Sep 24, 2026Neel Adwani, Muhaiminul Islam Akash, Rituja Bhattacharya +1Tactile SensingTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Electrical and Computer Engineering

  18. Calibration-Free Surface Normals Estimation in Vision-Based Tactile Sensing using Universal Photometric Stereo

    Sep 23, 2026Zdravko Dugonjic, Stefanie Speidel, Roberto CalandraSurface Normal EstimationVision-Based Tactile Sensing

    LASR Lab, TU Dresden, Germany · Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany · Department of Translational Surgical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), a partnership between DKFZ, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TUD Dresden University of Technology, and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden, Germany

  19. Norm2Tex: Augmenting Visuo-Tactile Simulations with Texture

    Sep 21, 2026Seongjin Bien, Débora Oliveira Makowski, Roberto Calandra +2Vision-Based Tactile SensingTactile Sensing

    University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany. · Technical University of Dresden, Germany. · Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany.

  20. Learning tactile perception from high-bandwidth single-point sensing

    Sep 21, 2026Joseph Rigal, Emmanuel Virot, Caroline PascalTactile SensingTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    Wormsensing, 1Wormsensing, 2 Rue des Murailles, 38170 Seyssinet-Pariset, France. · Hugging Face, 2 Hugging Face, 9 rue des Colonnes, 75002 Paris, France.

  21. Tactile-JEPA: Topology-Aware Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Distributed Tactile Sensors

    Sep 21, 2026Elizaveta Kovtun, Matvey Konovalov, Andrey Sakhovskiy +1Tactile SensingSelf-Supervised Learning

    Sber AI, Moscow, Russia · Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Moscow, Russia · HSE University, Moscow, Russia +1

  22. Layered e-skin for Shear Sensing

    Sep 18, 2026Qingzheng Cong, Alexis W. M. Devillard, Abu Bakar Dawood +7Tactile SensingTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS, UK · The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2AZ, UK · King’s College London, SE1 7EU, UK

  23. DexTouch-WM: Learning Action-Conditioned Tactile World Models from Human Touch for Dexterous Robot Manipulation

    Sep 17, 2026Yan Qin, Yue Chen, Wenwei Lin +9World Models for RoboticsTactile Sensing

    HKUST (GZ) · Xspark AI · PKU +1

  24. TouchSight: Bare-Handed Tactile Prediction from Egocentric Video via Generative Visual Augmentation

    Sep 17, 2026Danyan Zhou, Jinxuan Lu, Jiawei Lin +3Vision-Based Tactile SensingTactile Sensing

    THU · Xspark AI · HKUST (GZ) +1

  25. LUMO: Designing Luminous Contact Morphology for Repeatable Whole-Finger Contact Observation

    Sep 16, 2026Dong Ho Kang, Youngsu Ko, Luis SentisTactile SensingRobotic Tactile Sensing

    The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

  26. Beyond Gestures: Estimating Full Hand Pose and Contact Forces from Wrist-Worn Pressure Sensor Array

    Sep 15, 2026Svetoslav Kolev, Lingni Ma, Michael Goesele +3Tactile Sensing3D Hand Pose Estimation

    Meta Reality Labs Research

  27. XRoboToolKit-T: Teleoperation with High Stability and Precision with Tactile Sensing for Contact-rich Manipulation

    Sep 14, 2026Xiwen Dengxiong, Xueting Wang, Ke Jing +2Tactile SensingContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY · TikTok Pico Lab, San Jose, CA · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou, China

  28. SlipSense: Multimodal Tactile Learning for Low-Latency and Generalized Slip Detection

    Sep 14, 2026Tong Jian, Aditya Thurvas Senthil Kumar, Xinyi Li +7Tactile SensingTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    Dexterous AI Group, Analog Devices, Inc.

  29. PredTac: Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation with Predicted Touch

    Sep 14, 2026Weijia Fan, Daqiang GuoTactile SensingContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China.

  30. Language-Guided Representation Learning for Robust Cross-Sensor Material Recognition

    Sep 13, 2026Mashood M. Mohsan, Muhayy Ud Din, Binzhao Xu +2Vision-Based Tactile SensingTactile Sensing

    Khalifa University Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS), Khalifa University, UAE