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  1. EIT-Pneumatic Hybrid Robotic Skin for Practical and Accurate Force Map Reconstruction

    May 27, 2026Junhwi Cho, Sunggyu Bae, Junghyeon Ma +3Tactile SensingImage Reconstruction

    Mechanical Engineering Department, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), 34141 Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology), 42988 Daegu, Republic of Korea · Mechanical Engineering Department, TU/e (Eindhoven Technical University, 5600 MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands

  2. Tactile-Proprioceptive Sensor Fusion for Contact Wrench Estimation in Whole-Body Physical Human-Robot Interaction

    May 27, 2026Junha Min, Junghyeon Ma, Jiwung Kwon +3Tactile SensingHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology), Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea · Kinetic Intelligent Machine Lab (KIMLAB), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA

  3. Magnet-Based Soft Robotic Skin Using a 3D-Printed Multi-Lattice Structure and CNN-Based Tactile Super-Resolution

    May 27, 2026Yunseong Bang, Joowon Park, Suan Sim +3Tactile SensingRobotic Tactile Sensing

    Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology), 42988 Daegu, Republic of Korea · Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Ulsan, 93 Daehak-ro, Nam-gu, 44610 Ulsan, Republic of Korea

  4. Touch-R1: Reinforcing Touch Reasoning in MLLMs

    May 26, 2026Yingxin Lai, Yafei Zhou, Fucai Zhu +2Tactile SensingMultimodal Large Language Models

    1Xiamen University · 5Daimon Robotics · 2Great Bay University +2

  5. TactileReflex: Noise-Statistics-Driven Vision-Tactile Reflex Control for Force-Sensitive Manipulation

    May 22, 2026Ziyan Feng, Yulong Fu, Zheng Li +6Robotic ControlVision-Based Tactile Sensing

    Thrust of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China. · School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

  6. TacO: Benchmarking Tactile Sensors for Object Manipulation

    May 21, 2026Anya Zorin, Zilin Si, Myungsun Park +11Tactile SensingContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    UC San Diego United States · CMU · UC San Diego +2

  7. VBT-MPC: Vision-Based Tactile MPC for Contour Following

    May 19, 2026Edison Velasco-Sanchez, Luis F. Recalde, Guanrui Li +1Vision-Based Tactile SensingTactile Sensing

    AUROVA Lab, Computer Science Research Institute, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain · Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Robotics Engineering, Worcester, MA 01609, USA

  8. TacSE3: Equivariant SE(3) Motion Estimation from Low-Texture Visuotactile Images for In-Gripper Tracking and Compensation

    May 18, 2026Zhongyuan Liao, Junzhe Wang, Qingyang Liu +6Tactile SensingObject Pose Estimation

    Hong Kong Center for Construction Robotics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China · School of Engineering, Great Bay University, Dongguan, China

  9. Tactile-based Multimodal Fusion in Embodied Intelligence: A Survey of Vision, Language, and Contact-Driven Paradigms

    May 17, 2026Zhixiang Cao, Di Tian, Runwei Guan +11Tactile SensingMultimodal Generation

    School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China · Thrust of Artificial Intelligence, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China · State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China +7

  10. Why Modeling Human Haptic Material Perception with AI Is Difficult

    May 15, 2026Yasemin VardarTactile Sensing

    Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands · Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands

  11. TouchAnything: A Dataset and Framework for Bimanual Tactile Estimation from Egocentric Video

    May 13, 2026Jianyi Zhou, Ziteng Gao, Feiyang Hong +11Vision-Based Tactile SensingTactile Sensing

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · Meituan Academy of Robotics · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University

  12. TouchDrive: Electronics-Free Tactile Sensing Interface for Assistive Grasping

    May 7, 2026Jing Xu, Xuezhi Niu, Didem Gurdur Broo +1Tactile SensingHaptic Feedback

    Division of Microsystems Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering · Cyber-Physical Systems Lab, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  13. A skin-like conformal sensor for real-time shape mapping

    May 2, 2026Kaiping Yin, Sooik Im, Chaorui Qiu +5Tactile Sensing3D Reconstruction

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. · Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA · Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA. +2

  14. FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems

    Apr 30, 2026Binghao Huang, Yunzhu LiTactile SensingTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    Columbia University

  15. DOT-Sim: Differentiable Optical Tactile Simulation with Precise Real-to-Sim Physical Calibration

    Apr 30, 2026Yang You, Won Kyung Do, Aiden Swann +3Tactile SensingRobotics Simulation

    Stanford University, United States · University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

  16. An analysis of sensor selection for fruit picking with suction-based grippers

    Apr 27, 2026Eva Krueger, Marcus Rosette, Joseph R. DavidsonRobotic GraspingTactile Sensing

    Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR 97331, USA

  17. VTouch++: A Multimodal Dataset with Vision-Based Tactile Enhancement for Bimanual Manipulation

    Apr 22, 2026Qianxi Hua, Xinyue Li, Zheng Yan +4Vision-Based Tactile SensingTactile Sensing

    Humanoid Robot (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China · Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tongji University, Shanghai, China · School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

  18. When Sensing Varies with Contexts: Context Probing for Tactile Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

    Mar 26, 2026Yifeng Lin, Aiping Huang, Wenxi Liu +4Class-Incremental LearningPrototype-Based Classification

    Fujian Key Laboratory for Intelligent Processing and Wireless Transmission of Media Information, College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China

  19. Highly Deformable Proprioceptive Membrane for Real-Time 3D Shape Reconstruction

    Jan 20, 2026Guanyu Xu, Jiaqi Wang, Dezhong Tong +1Tactile Sensing3D Reconstruction

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

  20. External Photoreflective Tactile Sensing Based on Surface Deformation Measurement

    Nov 9, 2025Seiichi Yamamoto, Hiroki Ishizuka, Takumi Kawasetsu +6Tactile SensingTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    Graduate School of Engineering Science, The University of Osaka, Toyonaka 560-0043, Japan

  21. 3D Cal: An Open-Source Software Library for Depth Reconstruction on Vision-Based Tactile Sensors

    Nov 4, 2025Rohan Kota, Kaival Shah, J. Edward Colgate +1Vision-Based Tactile SensingTactile Sensing

    McCormick School of Engineering, Center for Robotics and Biosystems, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA

  22. Vision-Based Tactile Sensing for the Perception of the Object's Compliance and Hardness

    Oct 14, 2025Muxing Huang, Zibin Chen, Weiliang Xu +5Vision-Based Tactile SensingTactile Sensing

    Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Structure and Fundamental Interactions of Matter, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

  23. Whisker-based Tactile Flight for Tiny Drones

    Oct 3, 2025Chaoxiang Ye, Guido de Croon, Salua HamazaAerial RoboticsTactile Sensing

    BioMorphic Intelligence Lab, Department of Control & Operations, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands · Micro Air Vehicle Lab, Department of Control & Operations, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands